Getting your OZN grade
May 29, 2023
Collected all the OZN points required by your program of studies? See what you need to do to get your grade.
News
Włodzimierz Siwiński
(1939–2023)
May 15, 2023
It is with heavy hearts that we have learned of the passing of Prof. Włodzimierz Siwiński, the ASC Director between 1981 and 1984.
Year 2022/2023
June 16: Forecasting & Prediction – Necessary Skills for the 21st Century Leadership
June 16, 2023
Leadership Studies Research Group has the pleasure to invite for a lecture by Dr. Sam Potolicchio on skills neccessary in 21-century leadership.
American Studies Colloquium Series
June 1: Reckless Shelter: Contemporary Ecopoetic Practice
June 1, 2023
In this lecture, Karen Holmberg — a poet, writer and academic —will talk about the engagements with environmental and ecological initiatives at Oregon State that have shaped her and her recent work, while sharing and discussing sample poems that show her lifelong preoccupations with language as a living matter and one of the chief tools humans have for “being toward and becoming with” the natural world.
Year 2022/2023
May 29: Persephone & Demeter: A Workshop on “Lore Olympus”
May 29, 2023
Join this workshop on the current reiterations of the Persephone and Demeter myth and take part in a little knowledge-production experiment.
Year 2023/2024
March 19: The Algernon-Gordon Effect: Rethinking Human-Animal Relationships
March 19, 2024
Weird Fictions Research Group proudly invites you to the next “Weird Medicine” event! During this workshop, we will reflect upon the potentialities of Daniel Keyes’ Hugo Award-winning short story “Flowers for Algernon” (1959) to challenge—or not—our relationship with laboratory animals.
Year 2023/2024
April 11: Pregnant with an Abject Fetus: Disruptiveness of the Patriarchal Order in “Rosemary’s Baby” and Halsey’s “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power”
April 6, 2024
Weird Fictions Research Group proudly invites you to the next “Weird Medicine” event! The talk will focus on the theme of the dangerous fetus in two movies on monstrous gestation – Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and Halsey’s independent movie If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power (2021).
Year 2023/2024
March 12: “I Want it Out!”: Gynaehorror & Pro-Life Narratives in Post-Roe v. Wade
March 4, 2024
Join us for another lecture in the Weird Medicine series, this time focusing on a subgenre of horror called gynaehorror. As a thematic subgenre, it refers to films that center on lived female experience and the horrors embodied therein – such as the state’s use of biopower in its dominion over reproductive autonomy.
Year 2023/2024
February 28: The (Im)perfect Body: Body Horror in the Magnus Archives
February 28, 2024
Duing this talk we will listen to few episodes of The Magnus Archives and then discuss how Body Horror operates through sound and narrative.
Year 2023/2024
November 9: Scared Sick: Medicine and the Gothic Tradition
November 9, 2023
Join Weird Research Group for the second meeting of Weird Medicine Series! This talk will be grounded in the foundational Romantic period and will explain ways in which Gothic works reflected some of the most controversial medical pursuits, playing out their possibilities and dangers.
Year 2023/2024
December 19: Body in Ruins: Brandon Cronenberg’s Cinema of Exhaustion
December 19, 2023
Join Weird Research Group for the another meeting of Weird Medicine Series! This talk will focus on “the principle of somatic wholeness,” that is the idea that the body is to be “understood as a sovereign self: closed, contained, unified, and under rational control”
Year 2023/2024
January 25: New Technologies And Their Impact – From The Psychiatrist’s POV
January 25, 2024
Join Weird Research Group for the fifth meeting of Weird Medicine Series! The talk with psychiatrist Joachim Budny will serve as an occasion to exchange perspectives and information about the impact of new technologies on our everyday lives and well-being while staying close to this year’s theme of WEIRD MEDICINE.
Year 2023/2024
January 23: A New Life: Memory, Identity, and Ethics of Mind Manipulation in To The Moon
January 23, 2024
Join Weird Research Group for the fourth meeting of Weird Medicine Series! During the meeting, we will take a closer look at the game To The Moon, which will provide a starting point for a discussion about memory, ethics, and the future of psychology.
Year 2023/2024
October 30: Weird Halloween: Normal Again? The Portrayal of Mental Health(Care) in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
October 30, 2023
Join Weird Fictions Research Group for the first Weird Medicine meeting this semester about classic 90s TV show, Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
American Studies Colloquium Series
May 25: English Language Bias and the Generalizability Problem in the Face of Global Linguistic Diversity
May 25, 2023
According to different sources, there are between 6,000 to 8,000 languages spoken in the world today. However, many academic fields tend to rely on English as a model language and do not question the generalizability of findings from studies done with English speakers. This talkwill illustrate how English is in some respects unusual and how focusing on it exclusively might provide a biased picture of language and the human mind.
American Studies Colloquium Series
May 18: Understanding Appalachian Otherness
May 18, 2023
The Appalachian region of the US is a place surrounded in myth and stereotypes. This presentation explains the various scholarly and popular understandings of Appalachia, contrasting the definition of the region based upon geographic, economic, and cultural criteria, and discussing the differences between Northern and Southern Appalachia.