UO Mills International Center

We invite you to join the Mills International Center’s Learning Café: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Belonging, Teamwork, and Communication.

Learning Cafés are a 9-session weekly small-group learning community. We’ll lay a foundation of cross-cultural skill and knowledge that will support your own continued learning and humility, amplify your ability to shift perspectives and to handle discomfort skillfully, and together explore and crowd-source strategies to invite and thrive on the difference. The learning environment is welcoming, inclusive, learner-centered, and dialogue-focused. It’s a learning journey that builds on itself, so please do try to attend (nearly) all sessions.

If you are interested in attending this term, please register using the sign-up link in our bio. https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9tbTNZBOQvhZjVk?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaavp1NH5kkN9k-JFgZTIfG0ooG6idX9dCzfiV7OFy89VaMEy7oKRtHWaHM_aem_nveNhEYkU3xsBIWwMfXR-Q Sign-ups close on April 3rd, 2025.

Learning Café is open to ALL UO students, staff, and UO community members.

The Mills International Center would like to invite UO students, staff, faculty, and community members to share a poem (your own or someone else’s, in ANY language) at our 22nd annual World Poetry Night on February 25th, 2025.

World Poetry Night (WPN) aims to celebrate poetic expression in different languages, cultures, and backgrounds.

If you want to share a poem at WPN 2025, please submit your application here by January 12th! https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ewZ08lZJqpOJwqi

(Update: Submissions are now closed! Thank you to everyone who submitted poetry. If you are interested in attending World Poetry Night, mark your calendar for February 25th!) Call for Poems!    The Mills International Center would like to invite UO students, staff, faculty, and community members to share a poem (your own or someone else’s, in any language) at our 22nd annual World Poetry Night on February 25th, 2025.    World Poetry Night (WPN) aims to celebrate poetic expression in different languages, cultures, and backgrounds.    If you want to share a poem at WPN 2025, please fill out the Qualtrics form linked in our bio (http://bit.ly/4fBQq0X) or scan the QR code.    Application closes on January 12, 11:59pm PT.    #UOMills#MillsInternationalCenter#UO#universityoforegon#meettheworldhere

We would like to invite you to World Poetry Night 2023 on Monday, May 22 at the Redwood Auditorium (EMU 214).

The World Poetry Night celebrates our diversity through poetry, as UO students, staff, faculty, and community members recite their favorite poem (in any language).

The event starts with a dinner at 5 pm with the formal sessions beginning at 5:30 pm.

Happy Spring term! Spring Language Circles start every Monday, from 4-7 p.m. PT.

Language Circles are informal conversation groups led by native and/or proficient speakers. All students, staff, and community members are welcome.

This term, we have English and Nepali circles at 4 p.m., German, Japanese, Mandarin, and Spanish circles at 5 p.m., and Arabic, Burmese, Ichishkiin, and Korean circles at 6 p.m.

See you there!

Mills International Center would like to invite UO students, staff, faculty, and community members to share a poem (your own or someone else’s, in any language). World Poetry Night aims to celebrate poetic expression in different languages, cultures, and backgrounds.

If you want to share a poem at the World Poetry Night 2023 submit a poem by filling out the Qualtrics form linked in our bio (https://bit.ly/3zJJLi4) or scan the QR code.

Application closes on April 28, 11:59 PT.

Call for Poems! Mills International Center would like to invite UO students, staff, faculty, and community members to share a poem (your own or someone else’s, in any language). World Poetry Night aims to celebrate poetic expression in different languages, cultures, and backgrounds. If you want to share a poem at the World Poetry Night 2023 submit a poem by filling out the Qualtrics form linked in our bio (https://bit.ly/3zJJLi4) or scan the QR code. Application closes on April 28, 11:59 PT. #UOMillls#MillsInternationalCenter#UO#meettheworldhere#universityoforegon

***Updated Languages***

Want to practice your language learning skills? Look no further! Join us for Winter Language Circles every Monday, 4-7 p.m. at the Mills International Center.

This term, we have French, Ichishkíin, Italian, Nepali, and Spanish at 4 p.m., German, Japanese, Mandarin, and Vietnamese at 5 p.m., and Burmese, English, and Korean at 6 p.m.

See you there!

This week’s edition of Chill in the Mills consisted of Popin Cookin’, a popular Japanese candy kit!

Join us at Mills every Wednesday, 2-5 p.m. PT for a different craft activity.

Chill in the Mills is a safe space for students to connect and get creative!

Meet us at Mills every Wednesday from 2-5 p.m. PT for the winter term edition of Chill in the Mills!

Chill in the Mills is a safe space for students, staff, and community members to connect and get creative. Every week, we host a different craft activity. See you there!

Mills is thrilled to host a Learning Café on the topic of Indigenous Issues Affect Everyone, every Monday from 1:30-2:50 p.m. PT in the Rogue Room (EMU 140).

Mills Learning Cafés are small group learning communities to share perspectives and personal stories related to the material. To center Indigenous voices, all content will come from Indigenous sources.

If interested in attending, please complete the from below:

https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8csQbbPgUKkwzBQ?jfefe=new

Kicking off the winter term with the first week of Winter Language Circles! Nepali, Spanish, French, Italian, and Ichishkíin at 4 p.m. German, Japanese, and Mandarin at 5 p.m. Korean, Burmese, and English at 6 p.m. See you next week!

👥🌏Join us for Winter Language Circles at Mills International Center starting Monday of week 3, January 23rd from 4 to 7 p.m. PST. Language Circles are informal conversation groups led by native and/or proficient speakers. Students, staff, faculty, and community members of all skill levels are welcome! 🗣🌎

Wrapping up the term, we want to thank all the language leaders and participants of this term’s Language Circles! 🌎🗣Keep a look out for updates for next term, and have a good break! 👋❄️