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spring 2019 University of Oregon campus cultural calendar = Oregon Humanities Center sponsored or co-sponsored event = ”The Common Good” theme ongoing exhibits Free Museum admission on the first Friday of every month. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art lation incorporates motorized sculpture, construction, totems, Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Admission: $5 general, $3 se- altered found objects, film, fetishized costume, movement, niors. Free admission for museum members, children under 18, sound, spoken word, and music. students, and UO faculty, staff, and students. Information: jsma. Passage by Mohau Modisakeng uoregon.edu or (541) 346-3027. May 11 through August 8, 2019 Visual Clave: The Expression of the Latino/a Experience through This three-channel video, South Africa’s entry in the 2017 Ven- Album Cover Art: 1940-90 ice Biennale, meditates on slavery’s dismemberment of African Through April 21, 2019 identity and its enduring erasure of personal histories. Visual Clave explores the evolution of Latin album cover art with What’s Next: Curatorial Conversations particular focus on the United States market. June 1 through September 9, 2019 Visual Magic: An Oregon Invitational As a follow-up to 2018’s popular collections exhibition “A Through May 12, 2019 Decade of Collecting,” JSMA’s curators present newly acquired Recent work by 45 artists who began their creative careers in works as well as recent and planned gifts in honor of Jill Hartz. Oregon during the 1960s and ’70s. The exhibition features paintings, sketchbooks, ceramics, and mixed-media works. Museum of Natural and Cultural History Closed Mondays. Admission: $5 general, $10 families, $3 seniors Qosqo, entre el pasado y el presente: Photography in Cusco and youths. Free admission for museum members and UO facul- 1895–1945 ty, staff, and students. Reduced admission for EBT card holders Through May 19, 2019 ($1 individuals, $5 families). Information: natural-history.uore- This exhibition features the work of nine photographers who gon.edu or (541) 346-3024. lived in the Cusco region. Subjects range from Inca sites to romanticized evocations of Peru’s indigenous past. Survival Architecture and the Art of Resilience Through August 2019 Korda y el espíritu de la Revolución cubana Featuring innovative designs—from mushroom-based building (Korda and the Spirit of the Cuban Revolution) blocks to cardboard origami shelters—Survival Architecture Through July 21, 2019 blends ideas from around the world with scholarship at the UO. Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, better known as Alberto Korda or simply Korda (1928– 2001), was a Cuban photographer known for his Dinosaurs Take Flight: The Art of Archaeopteryx iconic image Guerrillero Heroico of revolutionary Che Guevara. Through May 2019 Six paleoartists take you on a Jurassic journey to uncover the Graceful Fortitude: The Spirit of Korean Women mysteries of the feathered dinosaur Archaeopteryx. Dinosaurs Through August 4, 2019 Take Flight combines original artwork with fossils, replica This installation features art created by, for, and/or about Korean skeletons, hands-on activities, and interactive media to tell the women dating from the 12th through the 21st centuries. amazing story of the evolution of flight. Flor y canto: Diego Rivera’s La ofrenda and Rufino Tamayo’sPerro Peregrine Falcon: From Endangered Species to Urban Bird aullando a la luna Opens June 1, 2019 Through August 25, 2019 In an unprecedented turn of events, peregrine falcons were list- Two masterworks by internationally acclaimed painters— ed and then removed from the endangered species list within Rivera’s 1931 La ofrenda (The Offering) and Tamayo’s 1942 two decades. Discover the incredible story of the citizens, sci- Perro aullando a la luna (Dog Howling at the Moon). entists, and birds that brought the species back from the brink Expressions of Design of a human-caused extinction—and explore ways we can help Through October 13, 2019 peregrines and other raptors to survive and thrive. Metalwork selections from the Margo Grant Walsh collection explore the principles of design. UO Libraries Information: library.uoregon.edu or (541) 346-9113 Saints and Spirits in Early Modern Europe Through November 10, 2019 Comedy of the Commonplace: The Sitcom Genius of Peg Lynch This exhibit juxtaposes images of distillation and related revelry This exhibition celebrates the life and work of Peg Lynch, a with representations of saints and the sacred. pioneer in broadcast entertainment whose papers are housed in Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA). Peg Philip Haas: Sculpture Breathes Life into Painting & Music Lynch enjoyed a long and enormously successful career in May 29 through June 9, 2019 radio and television situation comedy. She was the first woman The JSMA is excited to present the world-premiere of noted to create, write, star in, and solely own a sitcom series, Ethel artist Philip Haas’s new work, before it embarks on a year-long and Albert. tour in the U.S. and abroad. The two-week performance instal- C2 spring 2019 April April 6 Music 3 Lecture Tim Higgins, trombone. 3 p.m., Beall Concert Hall. “Visual Magic: The Oregon Connection.” Danielle Sponsor: School of Music and Dance. Information: Knapp, McCosh Curator, JSMA. 5:30 p.m., Jordan (541) 346-5678. Schnitzer Museum of Art. Sponsor: Jordan Schnitzer 7 Master Class Museum of Art. Information: (541) 346-0942. Tim Higgins, trombone. Noon, 163 Music. Sponsor: 3 Lecture School of Music and Dance. Information: (541) 346- Ideas on Tap “Climate Action: Taking on the Gov- 5678. ernment.” Mary Wood, Law, and Kelsey Juliana, 8 Lecture plaintiff, Our Children’s Trust vs. U.S. government. 6 “Are Public Schools Becoming Constitution-Free p.m., Viking Braggot Co., 2490 Willamette St. Sponsor: Zones?” Justin Driver, Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Information: Law, University of Chicago Law School; author of The natural-history.uoregon.edu Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme 4 Lecture Court, and the Battle for the American Mind. 11:45 “Dionysius of Corinth’s Travels in Early Christian a.m., EMU Redwood Auditorium. Sponsor: African Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean.” Cavan American Workshop and Speaker Series. Information: W. Concannon, School of Religion, University of inclusion.uoregon.edu Southern California. 4 p.m., 375 McKenzie Hall. Spon- 8 Film/Discussion sor: Classics. Information: (541) 346-4069. Shash Jaa’: Bears Ears (2016, 23 min.). With Anna 4 Music Elza Brady (Law ’18), former policy and communi- “All Chopin Program.” Joel Schoenhals, piano. 7 p.m., cations strategist for Utah Diné Bikéyah. Noon, 175 Beall Concert Hall. $12, $8. Sponsor: School of Music Knight Law Center. Sponsor: Wayne Morse Center for and Dance. Information: (541) 346-5678. Law and Politics. Information: waynemorsecenter. uoregon.edu 5 Symposium “Data/Media/Digital Graduate Student Symposium.” 8 Insight Seminar Presentations of multi-disciplinary work produced “History of the String Quartet I.” Wyatt True, violin- by UO graduate students. 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m., DREAM ist, and artistic and executive director, Delgani String Lab, Knight Library. Sponsor: New Media and Culture Quartet. 7–9 p.m., Baker Downtown Center, 975 High Program. Information: [email protected] St. $120. Sponsor: Continuing and Professional Educa- tion. Information and registration: uoinsight.uoregon. 5 Work-in-Progress Talk edu [Continues April 15, 22, 29] “A Century of Failures: History, Ethics, and Malaria in Zanzibar, 1900–2016.” Melissa Graboyes, Clark 9 Lecture Honors College, and 2018–19 OHC Faculty Research “Archaeological Perspectives on Western Burkina Fellow. Noon, OHC Conference Room (159 PLC). Faso.” Stephen Dueppen, Anthropology. Noon, Knight Sponsor: OHC. Information: (541) 346-3934. Library Browsing Room. Sponsor: African Studies. Information: africa.uoregon.edu 5 Music Global Scholars Hall Recital Series: Justin Stanley, 9 Lecture horn. 12:15 p.m., Global Scholars Hall. Sponsor: School “The Art of Directing.” Kent Jones, award-winning of Music and Dance. Information: (541) 346-5678. writer, director, film critic, festival director, and film- maker. 4 p.m., Gerlinger Alumni Lounge. Followed by 5 Music a reception. Sponsor: Cinema Studies. Information: Concerto Competition. 6 p.m., Beall Concert Hall. cinema.uoregon.edu Sponsor: School of Music and Dance. Information: (541) 346-5678. 10–13 Conference “HOPES 25: Destructive Idealism.” Lawrence Hall. 5 Lecture Sponsor: Ecological Design Center. Information: hopes. “Religion, Race, and American Belonging: Through uoregon.edu the Lens of Japanese American Buddhists during the Internment 1942–46.” Duncan Williams, Religion 10 Music and East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of “Ballet Outsider.” Noon, Berwick Hall. Sponsor: School Southern California. Respondents: Yvette Alex Assen- of Music and Dance. Information: (541) 346-5678. soh, VP for Equity and Inclusion, and Irum Shiekh, 10 Lecture Ethnic Studies, Clark Honors College. 7 p.m., 125 “Why are the Migrants Fleeing Honduras? Resistance, McKenzie Hall. Sponsor: Religious Studies. Informa- Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the tion: [email protected] Coup.” Dana Frank, History (emerita), UC, Santa Cruz. 6 Insight Seminar 4 p.m., Knight Library Browsing Room. Sponsor: Cen- Beowulf. James Earl, English (emeritus). 9 a.m.–noon, ter for Latino/a and Latin American Studies. Informa- Knight Library Browsing Room. $120. Sponsor: Con- tion: cllas.uoregon.edu tinuing and Professional Education. Information and 10 Film registration: uoinsight.uoregon.edu [Continues April Food Chains (2014, 83 min.) Followed by discussion 13, 20, 27] with Sarah D. Wald, English, and Environmental Studies; and David Vázquez, English. 7 p.m., Bijou Art spring 2019 C3 April continued Cinemas, 492 E. 13th Ave. Sponsor: Center for Envi- Sponsor: School of Music and Dance. Information: ronmental Futures. Information: [email protected] (541) 346-5678. 10 Music 13 Opening Reception Tai Hei Ensemble. 7:30 p.m., Beall Concert Hall. Spon- “NewArt Northwest Kids: Protecting the Northwest’s sor: School of Music and Dance. Information: (541) Natural Beauty.” 11 a.m.–noon, Jordan Schnitzer 346-5678.