While manuscript digitization may sound like a dry administrative project, it is actually, like so many library-related movements, politically charged. Especially when the manuscripts in question are in Yemen.
Elyse Fenton flew to Wales late last year to accept the 2010 Dylan Thomas Prize, a ₤30,000 ($47,000) award for English language literature given by the University of Wales to a writer under 30.
The 2000 U.S. Census says there are approximately 190,000 people in Louisiana speaking French at home. At that's just one of several Francophone communities in the Americas.
The concepts of equality and liberty emerging as part of the French Revolution of 1789 influenced Haiti’s own revolution. Yet the Haitian Revolution’s radical challenge to racism realized the principle of human emancipation in ways the French had not necessarily anticipated.
A new documentary by a UO professor offers a poignant study of the lives of men and women struggling with their experiences of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, exploring their politics as well as their complex feelings about their military service.
Linguistics professor Tyler Kendall challenges the myth of the “broadcast standard” dialect in the Western half of the U.S.
Thousands gathered at Matt Arena to honor Officer Chris Kilcullen ('95).
Political science alum tells his tale of survival.
Watch Noam Chomsky's recent UO lecture.
Watch excerpts from the opera, coming soon to Eugene.
As political instability in Yemen increases, centuries-old manuscripts are at risk.
Three’s a charm for a living memorial.
