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The Oregon Institute congratulates Board Member Sebastian Matthews on the publication of his new book, "Beyond Repair: Living in a Fractured State"
The author will read from his "memoir in essays" on Thursday, August 25, 7:00 p.m., at Malaprop's Bookstore, Asheville, North Carolina
Click here to register for the Zoom event
Jul
31
1:30 PM13:30
Chibụìhè Obi Achịmbà, SAR Program, Harvard University, joins the Oregon Institute for Creative Research as Summer 2020 Visiting Artist
Chibụìhè Obi Achịmbà reads his poetry at the inaugural OICR Yard & Field School, July 31, 2020
Chibụìhè Obi Achịmbà is a poet whose work can be found in The New York Times, Harvard Review, Guernica, Adirondack Review, EXPOUND, Heart, Cosmonauts Avenue, and collections for Arrowsmith Press, among others. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best New Poet; and in 2018, was named a finalist for the Gerald Kraak Award. In 2019-2020, he was a Scholars at Risk Fellow and Research Scholar in the Department of English at Harvard University. In fall 2020, he will begin his MFA candidacy at Brown University. He is currently at work on his first book.
Read “an easter hymn featuring my grandmother doing god’s will” here
https://www.brown.edu/academics/literary-arts/chibuihe-obi-achimba
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Cihan Özpınar presents "Historical Materialism & the Critique of Capitalism"
Image Credit: Getty Images
Feb
28
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Shannon McWeeney presents "Data Tells a Story": A Lecture on the Visualization and Narrativation of Data
Image Credit: Onward OHSU
Shannon McWeeney is Head of the Division of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology and a Faculty member in the Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, as well as Director of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Bioinformatics Shared Resource and the OCTRI Translational Bioinformatics Program
READINGS
Edward Segel and Jeffrey Heer, “Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data,” Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions (volume 16, issue 6 ), Nov.-Dec. 2010, 1139-1148
C.J. Wild and M. Pfannkuch, "Statistical Thinking in Empirical Enquiry (with discussion),” International Statistical Review, 67, 1999, 221-266
Nicholas Lewin-Koh and Martin Theus, eds, “Statistical Graphics and InfoVis—Twins Separated at Birth?” 4-12
Regina Nuzzo, “Statistical Errors,” Nature, vol. 506, 13 February 2014, 150-152