Events coming soon to campus include lectures by various guest speakers, a concert by a musical group from Tijuana and a Thanksgiving weekend open house at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
- UO graduate composer Jacob Walls will present a concert of 10 new works for 44 musicians at 8 p.m. Nov. 19 in Beall Hall. Admission is free and all are welcome to attend. Please contact Jacob Walls for more information at 503-707-2713.
- Robert Anderson, professor of law and director of the Native American Law Center at the University of Washington, will present a lecture called, “A Problem Prone Promise: Recurring Issues in Fulfilling the Federal Trust Responsibility to Indian Nations,” on Nov. 21. The lecture will be held at 5 p.m. in room 110 of the Knight Law Center. Please contact Erick Hoffman, director of communications at Oregon law, at 541-346-1665.
- J. Andrew Taylor, Ph.D., will present a lecture called “Aerobic Exercise for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury: Circumventing the Lesion” from 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Nov. 22 in Room 132 of Lillis Business Complex.
- Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich + Fussible, a Grammy-nominated musical group from Tijuana, Mexico, will be in Eugene Nov. 22-23 to screen their documentary film and perform. The UO College of Education’s Department of Education Studies is sponsoring the event with other organizations at the university. The documentary “Tijuana: Sonidos del Nortec,” will be shown at 6 p.m. Nov. 22 in Room 124 of the Global Scholars Hall; it is free and open to the public. The concert will be held at 8 p.m. Nov. 23 at the McDonald Theatre. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door.
- Jeff Duncan-Andrade will present a lecture, “Note to Educators: Hope Required When Growing Roses in Concrete,” as part of the yearlong “vulnerable series” of the Oregon Humanities Center’s Cressman Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 25 in 180 PLC. Duncan-Andrade, Ph.D., is the associate professor of Raza Studies and Education at San Francisco State University and director of the Educational Equity Initiative at the Institute for Sustainable Economic, Educational and Environmental Design. The lecture is free and open to the public; it can also be viewed as a live-streaming video. For more information, contact 541-346-3934 or send an email
- An open house event will be held at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art over Thanksgiving weekend. There will be free admission at the museum from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 29, through Sunday, Dec. 1. Free parking is available behind the museum. A variety of displays will include “National Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West,” “Art of Traditional Japanese Theater,” a three-part video installation called “From Last Century,” and more. For more information, contact the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art or Debbie Williamson Smith
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- from the UO Office of Strategic Communications