182 Lillis Hall
955 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus

The Oregon Humanities Center presents the 2012 Lorwin Lecture on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

Michelle Alexander, Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University, is the author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010).

Currently, there are more African Americans in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850. In her book, The New Jim Crow, acclaimed civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander explores the cultural biases that still exist and how segregation has been replaced by mass incarceration. She blames the War on Drugs for trapping millions in an endless cycle of discrimination and argues the need for a fundamental shift in public consciousness.

A Lorwin Event

The Center for the Study of Women in Society presented “Women’s Rights in a Global World,” the 2010-11 inaugural series of the Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This yearlong series of lectures, symposia, workshops, and other events focused on the continuing struggles for women’s rights and was intended to inspire new scholarship and activism on women’s rights. It grew out of CSWS’s historical mission: to generate research on women and gender and to disseminate that research to a broader feminist community. The Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is funded by a gift from Val and Madge Lorwin to the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences and School of Law.

Women’s advocate to speak | Sheryl WuDunn, co-author of the book “Half the Sky,” will discuss civil rights and economic promise.

May 10, 2011—From the Eugene Register-Guard

Erb Memorial Union Ballroom
1222 E. 13th Ave., University of Oregon
A FREE EVENT

Lorwin Lecture on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties — Sheryl WuDunn, Co-author of Half the Sky

“There is no simple economic formula for overcoming global poverty, but there is growing evidence that one of the simplest and most effective ways is to educate girls, empower them with knowledge and the ability to make their own decisions and help them develop some financial independence.  That way, they are integrated into their local economy, and potentially, the larger economy of the world.

“Take someone I know, Srey Rath, a Cambodian teenager who was trafficked and sold to a brothel in Cambodia. She was imprisoned there, unpaid, and raped countless times a day. In effect, she was a slave.

“But finally she was able to escape and after many adventures

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Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics

This two-day symposium, March 8-9, 2012, focuses on human rights and capitalism. Issues will include how to measure economic progress, human rights and the economy, women’s unpaid labor, the care crisis, and women and development. Part of the Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which is funded by a gift from Val and Madge Lorwin to the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences and School of Law. The program is on the Morse Center’s website.

Main Sponsors

Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and the Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

Cosponsors

Center for the Study of Women in Society, and the Departments of Ethnic Studies, Sociology and Geography.

Dr. Lamia Karim shares a light moment with Dr. Vandana Shiva as Dr. Shiva signs books following the CSWS Symposium.

The CSWS Symposium “Women’s Activism, Women’s Rights” brought together two scholars and two activists to a round-table discussion on women’s labor organizing issues from global and national perspectives. The symposium was held Monday, February 28, 2011. Dr. Vandana Shiva, the 2011 Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics, served as moderator. The panelists were:

• Michele Gamburd, Professor, Anthropology Department, Portland State University, “Sri Lankan Migrant Workers: Obstacles and Challenges to Activism”
• Eileen Otis, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, “From Masters to Servers: The Emergence and Struggles of China’s Feminized Service Workforce”
• Guadalupe Quinn, Immigrant Rights Advocacy Program Coordinator (Amigos), “Immigrant Women Workers In Oregon”
• Abby Solomon, Homecare Coordinator, Service Employees’ International Union (SEIU), “Women Healthcare Workers in Oregon”

In her closing remarks, Dr. Shiva mentioned that the encroachment of corporations into the lives of ordinary people diminished our ability to organize around labor rights. Dr Shiva said, “I am always surprised when I hear that something that is nice and shiny can cost a dollar. Do we ask ourselves how much the workers were paid for producing that particular object?”

UO Today #469: Dr. Beverly Wright

Posted on Feb 9th, 2011 in Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today