Centers

Oregon Humanities Center
The OHC supports the study of languages, linguistics, the arts, archaeology, religion, ethics, jurisprudence, and interpretive dimensions of the social sciences, the natural sciences, and the professions. This is accomplished through teaching, by offering fellowships for the development of innovative undergraduate courses in a variety of disciplines and cultural perspectives, by offering faculty the opportunity to teach subjects they would not normally teach, in ways they would not normally teach them; research, by offering research fellowship programs for UO faculty, doctoral students, and external faculty; and public outreach, by providing free to the public faculty presentations, lectures by renowned thinkers, poetry readings, art exhibitions, conferences, symposia, and debates.

Russian and Eastern European Studies Center
As of July 1999, the University of Oregon Russian and East European Studies Center (REESC) and the Russian Department have been united under the name of REESC. The faculty and the resources of the old Russian Department are devoted to research and instruction in Slavic languages and literatures and in the culture of the Russian and East European region.

Under the newly merged structure, REESC will continue to offer four full years of Russian language instruction, and a less extensive program of instruction in Bulgarian and Polish. Conversations are already underway with the Business School to create a joint REESC/Business School committee to develop yet further REESC Russian Instructor Yelaina Kripkov's innovative course, "Doing Business with Russia."

Students may choose to major or minor in Slavic languages and literatures or seek a Masters Degree in that field. As before, undergraduate and graduate degree candidates in Slavic languages and literatures may select from a solid array of appropriate courses offered in REESC but also in the departments of comparative literatures and linguistics.

Yamada Language Center
The YLC is a service and technology center for language teaching, study and research. It hosts three media-rich classrooms, two audio-visual rooms, a computer laboratory, study lounge, satellite television, materials development room, computer network hub, and extensive language-learning materials. In addition to supporting regular language courses, the center supports a wide-variety of self-study language programs in the less-commonly-taught languages, Foreign Language and International Studies Day for over 1000 high school students, the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Studies Institutes of 1998 and 1999, the foreign languages in the social sciences program, and a weekly international film series.

Other Resources

Oregon Consortium for International and Area Studies

European Studies is one of the founding constitutive members of the Oregon Consortium for International and Area Studies - formerly, International Programs Council - in the College of Arts and Sciences. European Studies shares common facilities and clerical staff with African Studies, Asian Studies, International Studies, Latin American Studies, and Russian and East European Studies. Besides providing efficient means of serving students in these programs, this coordination of staffing and office space fosters fruitful interaction among these interdisciplinary, international program areas. Representatives of these six programs currently are working together to establish a firm foundation for their future cooperation.

International Affairs

Through this office, students and faculty can learn about study, research, and teaching opportunities in Europe. Students can also access scholarship advising for international awards such as Fulbright, Rotary, DAAD, NSEP, and others. To learn about the opportunities available for students and faculty, visit the Study Abroad website.

In addition, this office helps coordinate visits by international partner institutions, public officials and visiting scholars. The Savage Endowment for International Relations and Peace is also administered by International Affairs. Trough this endowment, the UO welcomes distinguished guests and scholars with backgrounds in international relations and peace to campus.

Council for European Studies

The University of Oregon is a long-standing member of the council for European Studies. Founded in 1970, the Council is the leading academic organization for the study of Europe. The Council promotes and recognizes outstanding, multidisciplinary research in European Studies through a range of programs, including conferences, publications, and awards. As a member institution of the Council, UO faculty and students are eligible to apply for the sponsored awards, attend the various program and conferences, and access the publications. Professor George Sheridan, Department of History, is the UO contact person for the Council.

UO Library System

The University of Oregon Library, as the largest research library of the state, seeks to support and stimulate undergraduate instruction, graduate instruction, graduate and faculty research and service on the University of Oregon campus as well as respond to the needs of scholars by providing access to recorded information and information services.

The UO Library System holds over 2 million volumes, of which some 1.5 million are housed in the main Knight Library. It also maintains approximately 15,00 active serial subscriptions. The strongest non-English language periodical holdings are in French, German and Italian.

Library Holdings Specific to Europe