Oregon Humanities Center

Professor Mai-lin Cheng developed a University of Oregon Department of English seminar last year with the support of an OHC Teaching Fellowship. Check out the accompanying website:

Shelf Life – An English Seminar at the University of Oregon, Spring 2025 The Course Habent sua fata libelli. – Terentianus Maurus, De Litteris, De Syllabis, De Metris “Books have their own fates” (Benjamin 492n2). Walter Benjamin references Terentianus Maurus’s classical aphorism in his 1931 essay Unpacking My Library. As the full latin phrase “Pro captu lector...

An exciting new book by Ashley Cordes, Indigenous Media in ENVS and Data Science at UO, is released today!

Use Code MITP30 on publication day (Aprill 22) for 30% off and READMIT20 for 20% all other days when you order through Penguin Random House with a US mailing address.

Indigenous Currencies by Ashley Cordes: 9780262552530 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books How Indigenous currencies—including wampum and dentalium shells, beads, and the cryptocurrency MazaCoin—have long constituted a form of resistance to settler colonialism. Indigenous Currencies...

📚✨ COMICS COLLEGE: Comics Journalism & Human Rights ✨📚

Join us for this month's Comics College as Professor Kate Kelp-Stebbins explores the role of comics in journalism and human rights! She'll discuss her work on the UN Special Report on the Right to Food alongside Dr. Michael Fakhri and artist Omar Khouri, focusing on "Palestine and the Right to Food."

🗓 Wednesday, April 2
⏰ 5:30 PM
📍 Books With Pictures Eugene

This is a free, public talk—come learn about how comics bring global issues to life through powerful storytelling!

TODAY: Join us for a talk by Christopher Newfield "Jobs and Universities: A Tale of Two Futures" at 4 pm in the Knight Library Browsing Room at the UO.

Christopher Newfield: “Jobs and Universities: A Tale of Two Futures” Watch his UO Today interview Public disappointment with universities has reached epidemic proportions, and a common complaint is that they do a poor job of preparing students to find a job, especia…