People and Places

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 75th Anniversary with Jill Hartz, executive director, JSMA; Charles Lachman, curator of Asian Art; and Larry Fong, associate director and curator of American and Regional Art discussing the museum’s collections and history.

Convocation marks the start of the academic year and welcomes incoming students to the scholarly world of the university. The event is festive and resonates with the centuries-old tradition of inducting scholars into the community of the academy. This year’s convocation speaker is Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Center for Public Policy, University of Pennsylvania. Jamieson has frequently asserted that it is incumbent on America’s leaders to tell the citizenry “truths it does not want to hear.” Such statements are part of the reason syndicated columnist Paul Greenberg recently dubbed Jamieson the “magisterial arbiter of American eloquence.” She has long excelled at guiding Americans to more insightful analysis of the world. The UO Channel is pleased to present Kathleen Kamieson’s keynote speech, with an introduction by UO President Dave Frohnmayer.

At the University of Oregon, convocation marks the start of the academic year and welcomes students to the university. The UO convocation includes many aspects associated with commencement exercises, including faculty wearing their academic regalia, banners to identify the academic schools and colleges, and music associated with the university such as the Oregon pledge song and the “Mighty Oregon” fight song. Former UO President Richard W. Lariviere delivers the keynote address.

Join the UO Channel in a walk down memory lane as we present a documentary film reel circa 1934 that provides a snap shot of the campus shortly after the Great Depression. This old film reel’s brief credits state simply: Jesse G Sill Presents… “Know Your Pacific Coast Colleges” – Number 1 – University of Oregon at Eugene, Oregon. Regardless of how it was used in the 1930’s, this old film is enjoying a new life through a high tech medium.

The acclaimed Oregon String Quartet presents the second of a six-concert series in which all 17 of Beethoven’s string quartets will be performed.