Humanities

Joy Ride -- An English Professor Explores Why We Love Our Cars

Since childhood,  Gordon Sayre has been a car fanatic, a devotion that later in life has manifested itself as a rusty 1962 Volvo V1800 occupying his garage.

Active Listening

Visions of American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, getting pumped up for combat by listening to heavy metal and “gangsta” rap, have become pervasive in the media. Yet “the troops” isn’t a homogeneous group, always in preparation to Rage Against the Machine.

Telling: The Movie

Telling: Eugene—a moving, honest, heart-wrenching play based on veterans’ stories and performed by veterans—will now make its film debut, as a documentary. The documentary will explore the making of Telling and how it came together on the UO campus.

UO student Lemuel Charley, a member of the original Telling: Eugene cast, tells his story at a special performance in Washington, D.C.

Cinema Studies: The Perfect Storm

We float about with our camcorders at Christmas family gatherings. We watch the evening news. We click on videos accompanying online stories. We love YouTube.

UO Film Festival Debuts

This past May the UO launched Cinema Pacific, an annual film festival that each year will feature films from Pacific Rim nations during the five-day event.

Let's Take This Show On The Road

The University Theatre ended its season last spring on a stellar note, with sold-out performances of Annelie in the Depths of the Night. And now the Annelie company has taken the show on the road, with performances for rural schools.

Preserving Our Folk Culture Legacy

Native American artwork, traditional Latino dance, stories from Oregon loggers and fishermen—this is just some of the stuff from which folklife is made.