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"UO Today" Schedule
Humanities Center Director Barbara Altmann interviews faculty, staff, and visiting lecturers about their research and interests for a 30 minute show that gives an inside look at the University of Oregon.
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Note that the dates below are for the week in which the edition of "UO Today" will be broadcast.
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| June 8, 2009 | Nicholas Isherwood, assistant professor of opera studies and director of the University Opera, discusses his vision for the UO opera program and his international career as a bass-baritone. He performs two opera excerpts in the studio. |
| June 15, 2009 | Richard Herskowitz, film studies and arts administration, discusses his work with the Virginia Film Festival and plans for the proposed Pacific Rim Film Festival, which would be run in conjunction with the new Cinema Studies program at the UO. |
| June 22, 2009 | Joe Giansante, Associate Athletic Director, discusses the history of the UO Baseball program and its reinstatement after a 26 year hiatus. He also talks about PK Park, the new baseball stadium that will be completed this year. |
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| June 29, 2009 | Maria Guinand, 2008 Trotter Chair at the School of Music and Dance and the leader of Venezuelan choral projects, discusses the benefits of choral music and how Construir Cantando (Building Through Singing) has helped disadvantaged youth in South America. |
| July 6, 2009 | Henry Jenkins, 2008-9 O'Fallon Lecturer and director of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, discusses how popular culture and new media affect the political landscape. |
| July 13, 2009 | Peter Galison, Pellegrino Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University, discusses his documentary film "Secrecy" and his research into Albert Einstein's relationship with Friedrich Adler, a fellow physicist who assassinated the Austrian Prime Minister in 1916. |
| July 20, 2009 | Bob Doppelt, director of Resource Innovations and the Climate Leadership Initiative in the Institute for a Sustainable Environment, discusses sustainability and how our mind set can affect global warming. |
| July 27, 2009 | Edward Tick, Soldier's Heart, discusses his PTSD treatment model based on research of worldwide spirituality, mythology, traditional cultures and the warrior archetype. Soldier’s Heart is a non-profit program designed to create safe-return programs for veterans in communities across the country. |
| August 3, 2009 | Frances White, associate professor of Anthropology, discusses her research on the bonobo, or pygmy chimpanzee. She describes how this species differs from the more-familiar chimp and talks about their peaceful social structure. Prof. White gave a lecture on this topic on April 14, 2009. |
| August 10, 2009 | Carol Stabile, director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, discusses her research into gender issues and online gaming as well as how the media’s race and class biases affected reporting during Hurricane Katrina. |
| August 17, 2009 | John Schmor, department head of Theatre Arts, discusses the reopening of the Miller Theatre Complex, the renovation of the Robinson Theatre, and the new Hope Theatre. |
| August 24, 2009 | Catacoustic Consort members, Joanna Blendulf and Annalisa Pappano, early music specialists, discuss their musical collaborations and the pardessus de viole. They also perform a piece on period instruments. |
| August 31, 2009 | Barbara Corrado Pope, professor emerita, Women's and Gender Studies and author of Cézanne's Quarry, discusses her experience writing her first novel and the development of the story. |
| September 7, 2009 | Nicholas Isherwood, assistant professor, Opera Studies, School of Music and Dance, discusses his vision for the UO opera program and his international career as a bass-baritone. He performs two opera exerpts in the studio. |
| September 14, 2009 | Sean B. Carroll, 2008-9 Clark Lecturer and professor of Microbiology and Genetics and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wisconsin, discusses his work in Evolutionary Developmental Biologyand the idea of "tool-kit genes." He also talks about his latest book, Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species, which features the naturalists who made crucial contributions to evolutionary science. Carroll gave the 2008-9 Robert D. Clark Lecture on May 4, 2009. |
| September 21, 2009 | Joe Giansante, Associate Athletic Director, discusses the history of the UO Baseball program and its reinstatement after a 26 year hiatus. He also talks about PK Park, the new baseball stadium that will be completed this year. |
Updated: 6/8/09