Collections at the Center

Launched in 2016, Collections at the Center is a regular series of presentations hosted by the Special Collections and Archives Research Center that invites the campus and the community to engage with materials from our vast collections. Collections at the Center offers the opportunity to interpret and explore these materials through expert lectures, participant discussion, and close observation. By inviting faculty experts to put SCARC's collections front and center, we hope to encourage participants to engage with our materials with new eyes. All Collections at the Center events are hosted in the reading room of the Special Collections and Archives Research Center on the fifth floor of the Valley Library. These events are also free and open to the public.

Past Events

• Through the Lens: Tools for Extending Our Vision and Knowledge through History, Dr. Melissa Santala, OSU Professor of Materials Science. October 10, 2019.

• Women at the Gymnasium: OAC Women's Athletics and Physical Education, 1880s-1940, Ted Cox, former OSU volleyball coach and local historian. November 7, 2018.

• Communicating Our Vision of Nature: Scientific Illustration through the Ages, Dr. David Maddison, OSU Professor of Systematic Entomology. April 26, 2018.

• Beyond Daly's Promise: Lessons from America's Oldest Place Based Scholarship, Dr. Sam Stern, OSU Professor and Dean Emeritus, College of Education. May 10, 2017.

• Remembering the Past, Queering the Present: Queer Inspiration for Contemporary Activism, Bradley Boovy, OSU Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Natalia Fernández and Vanessa Vanderzee, OSU Libraries Special Collections and Archives Research Center. February 28, 2017.

• Catching Stories: The Oral History Tradition at Oregon State University, Chris Petersen, Natalia Fernández and Tiah Edmunson-Morton, OSU Libraries Special Collections and Archives Research Center. January 26, 2017.

• Challenging Censorship: How the Encyclopédie Got Published, Dr. Anita Guerrini, Horning Professor, OSU School of History, Philosophy and Religion. November 29, 2016.

• Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon's Willamette Valley, Dr. Peter Kopp, Assistant Professor of History, New Mexico State University. November 18, 2016.

• The Malheur Story: From Marshland to Dust Bowl to Restoration, Dr. Bill Robbins, OSU Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History. November 3, 2016.

• OSU's Photographic Archive: Technology and Society, 1850-1950, Dr. Julia Bradshaw, Assistant Professor, OSU School of Arts and Communication; Dr. Dwaine Plaza, Professor, OSU School of Public Policy, and Associate Dean in the OSU College of Liberal Arts; Larry Landis, Director, OSU Libraries Special Collections and Archives Research Center. May 2, 2016.

• Hands-On Reading: What Manicules tell us about the Social Network of Early Printed Books, Dr. Rebecca Olson, Associate Professor, OSU School of Writing, Literature and Film. February 10, 2016.