Events
May 20 Lecture: John McDowell on Ecoperformativity: Expressive Culture at the Crux of Ecological Crisis
Please join us in the Knight Library Browsing Room on Monday, May 20 at 5 PM for a lecture by Indiana University folklore professor John McDowell as he speaks about how expressive culture in the Andes is being used to combat environmental crisis. See attached flyer for more details.
Fall 19 Initial Registration May 20-30
Details at folklore.uoregon.edu/welcome/class_schedule/
If interested in the Major or Minor, contact the Folklore and Public Culture Program
in 118 PLC
541-346-1505
emagee@uoregon.edu
Click on the image to see the entire list of guest speakers. For questions please contact Professor Dorothee Ostmeier at ostmeier@uoregon.edu.
Mermaiding: German Avant-garde Filmmaking and Portland Lore
March 4, 2019 – 4:00-5:30 pm
Lawrence 166
A Lecture/Workshop on Combining Academic Research and Artistic Filmmaking with:
Miriam Gossing & Lina Sieckmann
Experimental film artists Miriam Gossing & Lina Sieckmann from Cologne, Germany, will present their work with Mermaid activists from Portland, OR and Teenage Vampires from Forks, WA., and talk about the relationship of literature and film and the influence of Folklore and Fantasy. Their work uses documentary imagery, fiction, and found footage to inform the cinematographic presentation of architecture, hyper-staged environments as landscapes of desire.
Students are invited to engage in close dialogue and present their own ideas in working with film as a medium combining research and visual pleasure.
Sponsored by German and Scandinavian, Anthropology, Cinema Studies, Folklore and Public Culture, Oregon Humanities Center, and Office of the Provost. This event is free and open to the public.
For Questions contact: Dorothee Ostmeier, German and Scandinavian, Folklore and Public Culture (Ostmeier@uoregon.edu)
“Struggling with Sustainability: Guarayo Cultural and Environmental Management Challenges”
| January 31, 2019 | ||
| 3:30 pm | to | 5:00 pm |
Diamond Lake Room
Erb Memorial Union
CLLAS Research Series: Faculty Collaboration Research Grant
“Struggling with Sustainability: Guarayo Cultural and Environmental Management Challenges”
presented by Ed Wolf, Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology, and Derrick Hindery, Associate Professor, International Studies and Geography
At the confluence of Bolivia’s Amazon and Chiquitano Forests, the Guarayo town of Urubichá boasts an internationally renowned orchestra, children’s choir and music school – all well-versed in the Baroque music practices that Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries introduced. Guarayos also have been praised for the work plans they have in place to sustainably harvest the lumber on their 1.5 million hectare territory. UO Professors Wolf and Hindery recently visited the region to search for connections between these successes and Guarayo worldview. In this talk, they discuss how Guarayo efforts at cultural and environmental sustainability are being challenged by dwindling economic resources, extractive logging, colonization, and commercial farming. They consider how this situation relates to broader initiatives, such as decolonizing cultural and economic practices and seeking autonomy for Indigenous peoples in Bolivia.
