Kritikos Professorship in the Humanities

Richard Taruskin
Professor of Music, University of California at Berkeley

“Did Somebody Say Censorship?”

Drawing on sound bites from thirty musical works that have been altered in the course of their reception – sometimes by their creators, more often by others, including legal authorities – Taruskin explores when it is appropriate to speak of censorship and whether censorship is always a bad thing.

Eugene:
Tuesday, May 13
7:30 p.m.
182 Lillis Hall

Portland:
Thursday, May 15
6:30 p.m.
Crystal Ballroom, Benson Hotel
309 SW Broadway

Prelecture reception: 5:30 p.m.

Taruskin's specialties include fifteenth-century music, Russian music, Stravinsky, analytical methods, and the theory of performance practice.

Cosponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center

The Political Science Department presents

Joseph Cirincione
president, Ploughshares Fund and author of Bomb Scare: The History of Nuclear Weapons giving a lecture entitled,

“The Collapse of the Bush Doctrine:
The Next Nuclear Strategy”

Wednesday, May 14
7 p.m.
180 PLC

Cirincione will discuss why the Bush policy of preemption is dead, and why any future administration is likely to abolish nuclear weapons.

For information, call 346-4864.

The Oregon Humanities Center announces the completion of its
three-part video history documentary

"A History of the University of Oregon,
1857-1989"

Premiere screening (parts II and III)
Friday, May 30
5-7 p.m.
41 Media Services, Knight Library

For information, call 346-3934.

The DVD will be available at all Duck Store locations.

Cosponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center

“Thinking Through Nature: Philosophy for an Endangered World”
A conference presented by Environmental Studies and the International Association for Environmental Philosophy

June 19-22, 2008
Website

Cosponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center and the Oregon Bach Festival

Community Inside Line: composer Rebecca Oswald
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Hult Center, Soreng Theater

Performance of "Bowerman Man of Oregon"
The family of Bill's son Jay Bowerman commissioned Rebecca Oswald to compose and requested that the Oregon Bach Festival perform "Man of Oregon." The commissioned piece, a 22-minute work for chamber orchestra, is a symphonic biography of Bowerman (1911-1999), and will be the heart of the gala tribute.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Hult Center, Silva Hall

For ticket information, contact the Oregon Bach Festival at (541) 682-5000.

Visit rescheduled:

Monday, November 3, 2008
Henry Jenkins
Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities, co-director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, and author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide