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Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Application Deadline EXTENDED: October 31, 2022
The University of Oregon’s Oregon Folklife Network has been awarded a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts plus $40,000 from Oregon Arts Commission to support Oregon’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program.
Oregon Folklife Network is accepting applications until October 21, 2022 for the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP) for projects in 2023. The program offers folk and traditional master artists and culture keepers a $3,500 stipend to teach their art form to apprentices from their same communities, Tribes, sacred or occupational groups. The stipend
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Speaker Event: Kinga Povedak
Public Health Hazard or Miraculous Water? Science and Progress in Soviet-Style Anti-Religious Propaganda Films
Tuesday, Nov. 7, 4:00-6:00 pm; Knight Library Browsing Room
This presentation focuses on Soviet-style anti-religious propaganda films produced in the 1960s and illustrates how religious practices were portrayed as “subversive,” “unhealthy,” or anti-progressive. These films attempted to convince people of the fraudulent nature of religious pilgrimage sites during the Cold War era by focusing on the public health hazards associated with bacterial and virus infection from
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Spring 2023 – FLR 399: from Magic to Sci-Fi/AI Realities
CRN 35783 Professor Dorothee Ostmeier T/Th 4:00-5:20
Discussion of Magic and Non-Human Dynamics from German Romanticism to Utopias and Dystopias in Expressionist films and Contemporary Sci-Fi Thrillers. Readings include texts by the Brothers Grimm, and uncanny and weird texts from ETA Hoffmann to Franz Kafka. Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics and Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity theory will accompany our screenings and discussions of Expressionist and Sci-Fi films such as Bicentennial Man, Her, and Transcendence. Analytical and creative public humanities projects are welcome.