Winter 2023
Events:
- February 16th - Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
- Princeton historian Margot Canaday will discuss her book, Queer Career, which explores the experiences of sexual minorities in the American workforce during the second half of the twentieth century.
- March 8th - "How to Cope with Climate Anxiety: Saving the Earth and Saving Ourselves"
- Author and researcher Britt Wray will share practical tips and strategies for productively dealing with our emotions, living with climate trauma, and strengthening our communities so we can combat climate change together.
- March 13th - "The Right's Gender Wars and the Assault on Democracy" by Arlene Stein.
- March 16th - DISAPPOINTING beyond our ancestor's wildest dreams: Exhibit by The q[ch]Asm Collective.
Spring 2023
Noon Talks:
- April 14th - "Con Ganas: Latina Testimonios at an Emerging Hispanic Serving Institution," by Bobbie Bermudez, Education.
- May 5th - "'The Queen Who Will Reign': Chinese and Japanese American Beauty Pageants in 1950s Seattle" by Olivia Wing, Associate Professor, History.
- May 12th - “Can You See What I See? Affectively Gendered Bollywood Edition” by Murisha Habib, Comparative Literature.
- June 1st - "Kitsch, Ornament, Allegory: Hello Kitty as Commonist Art” by Joyce Cheng, Associate Professor, Art.
- April 24th - May 4th - Ghost Forest, an exhibition by Eugene photographer Sarah Grew, featuring Jon Bellona’s sound installation Wildfire.
- April 25th - Native Ecologies, a panel discussion on Indigenous histories and approaches to fire management, knowledge production, and ecological stewardship, with moderator Kirby Brown and panelists Kari Marie Norgaard, Joe Scott, and David G. Lewis.
- May 2nd - "Desire in the Aftermath of Environmental Violence," the 2023 CSWS Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture with Professor Michelle Murphy, University of Toronto.
Events:
- April 18th - Natalia Molina Lecture
- Natalia Molina is a professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California. Her research explores the intertwined histories of race, place, gender, culture, and citizenship.
- April 21st - “Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Justice” Book talk with Crystal Littlejohn, Associate Professor, WGSS.
- May 12th-13th - Feminist Afterlives of Colonialism - an interdisciplinary conference on the topic of critical feminist approaches to the coloniality of gender.
- May 16th - Britney Wilson Lecture
- Britney Wilson is a professor of Law and Director of The Civil Rights and Disability Justice Clinic at New York Law School. Born with Cerebral Palsy, Wilson has written and spoken extensively about disability and the intersection of race and disability.
- June 2nd - 7:30PM, Miller Theatre Complex, "Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots" by Monique Mojica.
- Using theatrical exploration as a way-of-knowing and learning, four actors enter into Mojica’s landmark play confronting the histories of Indigenous women of the Americas.