Please be informed that the ASC Office for Students’ Affairs, Faculty and Staff Office as well as the Finance Section will be closed from April 6 to April 11 due to the Easter Break.
Have a good holiday break!
Year 2022/2023
June 16: Forecasting & Prediction – Necessary Skills for the 21st Century Leadership
June 3, 2023
Leadership Studies Research Group has the pleasure to invite for a lecture by Dr. Sam Potolicchio on skills neccessary in 21-century leadership.
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.
Year 2022/2023
May 29: Persephone & Demeter: A Workshop on “Lore Olympus”
May 26, 2023
Join this workshop on the current reiterations of the Persephone and Demeter myth and take part in a little knowledge-production experiment.
American Studies Colloquium Series
June 1: Reckless Shelter: Contemporary Ecopoetic Practice
May 25, 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.
American Studies Colloquium Series
May 25: English Language Bias and the Generalizability Problem in the Face of Global Linguistic Diversity
May 18, 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.
