CURE offers a variety of competitive grants to support undergraduate research endeavors. The conference travel award assists students to present their research findings at a conference or professional meeting. Fellowships are also available to support students to conduct summer research under the mentorship of a University of Oregon faculty mentor. CURE has also created a fund to assist eligible students in emergency situations, and designed to help students participate in research related opportunities. 

Registration begins February 24, 2020.  Read below for more information and course descriptions!

Cinema Studies is currently accepting applications for a Student Office Assistant

The Student Office Assistant supports the Department of Cinema Studies staff and faculty in the general operation of the office. The position is 8 to 10 hours per week. For a description of duties and the application, please visit the job posting on Handshake. 

Deadline Extended! Apply by Midnight Monday, March 2, 2020

What is Information? (2020) will investigate conceptualizations and implementations of information via material, representational, and hybrid frames. The conference-experience will consider information and its transformational effects and affects—from documents to data; from facts and fictions to pattern recognition; from differential equations to physical information; and from volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity to collective intelligence and wisdom.

Send 150–200 word abstracts for papers / panels / installations by JANUARY 24, 2020 to: Janet Wasko at jwasko@uoregon.edu.

Space is still available in these winter term 2020 classes: 

CINE 266 History of Motion Picture II >1
CINE 399 Sp St Cinema & Power
CINE 399 Sp St Global Mobil Media
CINE 425 Top Sound for Screens
CINE 440 Top Contemp Glob Art >GP >IC

The University of Oregon Department of Cinema Studies is pleased to invite applications for a Career Instructor in Fiction Production, to begin as early as March 2020. 

We seek enthusiastic candidates with experience in narrative fiction across formats including film, TV and/or emerging forms. We are especially interested in a colleague who is excited to train undergrads as creative practitioners, support students’ professional development, and contribute to the creative and intellectual community of the department.

Explore Cinema Studies Winter 2020 Core Ed Courses

Registration begins November 18, 2020.  Read below for more information and course descriptions!

The Remixing Media, ©ritiquing Culture Freshman Interest Group (FIG) announces a "call for entries" to artists for the UO ©ritical A®t Show

On December 5th from 6:30-10pm in the main hallway/lobby in Global Scholars Hall on the University of Oregon campus the Remixing Media, ©ritiquing Culture FIG will host the 3rd annual UO ©ritical A®t Show, which is an event that brings together student and community artists. The FIG is accepting submissions from artists through November 14 (if we need to print/mount the work; if not we can accept the week or day of).

The event is organized and curated by a group of 20 first-year students in a FIG (freshman interest group), the FIG Assistant, Ellie Reisman, and their instructor André Sirois (DJ food stamp).

Masami Kawai is a Los Angeles-born filmmaker whose work integrates issues of race, class, gender, and what it means to be an immigrant across multiple modes of filmmaking.

Cinema Studies announces the 2020 Undergraduate Filmmaker & Scholar Awards

Cinema Studies is pleased to announce the 2020 James Ivory Essay Award, the 2020 Undergraduate Filmmaker Award, and the 2020 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Award.  Up to $500 will be give to the top recipient of each award.  More information, deadlines, eligibility and requirements are available below.