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Events for Graduate Students
Walktober
Oct
24
Feel that shift in the air? It’s not just fall — it’s Walktober 2026!
Lane County’s favorite walking celebration is back for its 4th year, with free, fun, and themed walks happening all October. You can join tree walks, birdwatching tours, historic cemetery walks, urban art strolls, a group thrift walk, the ever-popular Coffee Shop Hop, and the challenge — yes, there are prizes! Walks are being added every week, and there’s something for every age and pace. Grab a friend, lace up, and explore your community on foot.
Full schedule including events at UO and details at wewalklane.org
Building Community: Exploring Eugene’s Murals
8:00 a.m.Oct
24
8:00 a.m.–11:00 p.m.
Celebrate the murals of Eugene with this exhibit featuring the City of Eugene's 20x21EUG Mural Project and Urban Canvas murals. The purpose of the exhibit is to create opportunities for UO students to learn about and engage with the city of Eugene and the greater Eugene community. https://www.eugene-or.gov/4636/Murals
The Ducks in Downtown section will of the display will be photos from you, out in town seeing the wonderful art.
Send in a photo with a Eugene mural to be a part of the exhibit and a chance to win a prize pack! Email a selfie of you with a Eugene mural to mcmillangallery@uoregon.edu. The submissions will be accepted starting September 15. Prizes drawing will be Friday of week 5 and week 10. To have your picture displayed in the gallery exhibit, you must sign a model release form. more information on our instagram https://www.instagram.com/uomcmillangallery/ or email us. Only photos on display at the date of the drawing will be entered into the raffle. All are welcome to submit photos for the gallery, but only UO students are eligible to be entered into the raffle.
Reception October 13 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. free refreshments, open to all
Calendar entry image of mural by AIKO (Japan/USA) Reflection
Novels of the Southern US
9:30 a.m.Oct
24
9:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
In this course we will examine novels by Southern writers from 1942 to 2011, exploring how each novel represents evolving understandings of identity, culture, race, and gender at crucial times in American history and letters.
Each class will begin with a bit of lecture offering historical context and scholarly reception for each work but the main part of class will be discussion as we consider passages from each novel as well as the larger themes each author is addressing. We’ll look at literary techniques as well as thematics, thinking about point of view, character development, representations of time and memory, use of place and landscape, just to name a few.
SCHEDULE
Week One: The Bear (1942) by William Faulkner Week Two: The Member of the Wedding (1946) by Carson McCullers Week Three: The Violent Bear It Away (1960) by Flannery O’Connor Week Four: Salvage the Bones (2011) by Jesmyn Ward
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Mary Wood is a semi-retired professor of English at the UO, where she has taught American Literature for over thirty years. She regularly teaches courses on 19th- and 20th-century American literature, American modernism, and memoir and autobiography and always makes sure to include Southern writers.