Fall 2018
Events:
- September 24th - 2:00PM, Lewis Lounge, Knight Law Center, Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium: “The Invisible #MeToos: The fight to end sexual violence against America’s most vulnerable workers,” with investigative reporter Bernice Yeung.
- October 3rd - 12:00PM, Room 110, Knight Law Center, Panel Discussion: “Trans* Law: Opportunities and Futures,” with Paisley Currah, Professor, Brooklyn College & CUNY and Asaf Orr, Attorney, National Center for Lesbian Rights. Moderator: Beatrice Dohrn, Director, Nonprofit Clinic, UO School of Law.
- October 9th - 4-5:30PM, Gerlinger Lounge, Welcome Reception New Women Faculty
- October 17th - 3:30PM, EMU 230, Swindells Room, “Written/Unwritten: On the Promise and Limits of Diversity and Inclusion,” Patricia Matthew, Montclair State University.
- October 25th - 12:30PM, Gerlinger Lounge, “Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina.” Barbara Sutton, University at Albany, SUNY.
- November 30th - 12:00PM, Knight Law School, Room 175, “Gender and Climate Change,” Joane Nagel, University of Kansas.
Winter 2019
Common Reading Program:
Author Thi Bui, “The Best We Could Do”
- January 30th - 5:30-8:00PM, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Artist Reception and Book Signing featuring Thi Bui
- January 31st - Ford Alumni Center Guistina Ballroom, Thi Bui Public Conversation with Dr. Tuong Vu, Political Science, and Dr. Lynn Fujiwara, Ethnic Studies
- February 1st - 11:00AM-12:00PM, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Ford Lecture Hall, Live reading of The Best We Could Do with Thi Bui, followed by Q&A.
- February 1st - Teaching Engagement Program: Faculty Workshop on Engaging Comics in the Classroom, facilitated by Thi Bui.
Events:
- February 11–12 Allyship Trainings: Attorney Janée Woods Many Nations Longhouse. 1630 Columbia St. 8:30 am – 1 pm on 2/11/19. 9 am – 3 pm on 2/12/19. Must pre-register.
- February 27th - 4-5:30PM, Straub Hall, Room 156, “Why Aren’t There More Black People in Oregon?: A Hidden History,” with author Walidah Imarisha.
- March 7th - 2:30-4:30PM, Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium: “Facing the Dragon,” Christen Smith, University Texas, Austin.
Spring 2019
Events:
- April 25th - Ford Lecture Hall, JSMA, Acker-Morgen Lecture: “Masculinity and Capitalism: A Brief History of the Rise and Fall of a Foundational Relationship,” Raka Ray, University of California, Berkeley.
- May 9th - Queer Studies Lecture: “Convergence, Dissymmetry, Duplicity: Enactments of Queer of Color Critique in the Era of Administrative Violence,” Chandan Reddy, University of Washington.
Related Content
Bernice Yeung: “The Invisible #MeToos: The fight to end sexual violence against America’s most vulnerable workers”
Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium. Bernice Yeung is a reporter for Reveal, covering race and gender. Her work examines issues related to violence against women, labor and employment, immigration, and environmental health.
“Trans* Law: Opportunities and Futures” Panel Discussion
A Panel Discussion: “Trans* Law: Opportunities and Futures” with Paisley Currah, Professor, Brooklyn College & CUNY; Asaf Orr, Attorney, National Center for Lesbian Rights; and Moderator Beatrice Dohrn, Director, Nonprofit Clinic, UO School of Law.
Patricia Matthew, “Written/Unwritten: On the Promise and Limits of Diversity and Inclusion”
Faculty, administrators, and graduate students have an opportunity to explore issues of faculty diversity with , the editor of Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) at 3:30 pm Wednesday, Oct. 17, in EMU 230, the Swindells room. Her lecture is titled “Written/Unwritten: On the Promise and Limits of Diversity and Inclusion.”
Barbara Sutton “Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina”
This presentation is based on Sutton’s recently published book, Surviving State Terror. Based on oral testimonies of women who survived clandestine detention centers during a period of state terrorism in Argentina (1976–83), this book illuminates the gendered and embodied forms of trauma that women endured while also highlighting their historical and political agency.
Joane Nagel: “Gender and Climate Change”
Joane Nagel, University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Anthropology Department at the University of Kansas, is a political and cultural sociologist whose work focuses on ethnicities, genders, and sexualities in the US and the global system and the militarization of gender, science, and global climate change.
Mimi Nguyen: Of Gifts, Debts, and Threats
Thi Bui’s graphic memoir The Best We Could Do movingly tells personal and political histories of the war in Vietnam and its aftermath for her family of refugees. Since this Cold War exodus, however, the United States has increasingly enacted restrictions for granting asylum to populations fleeing wars in those places to which the United States pledged freedom (often through sanction, bomb, and drone). Join us for a public talk in conversation with UO's 2018-2019 Common Reading Book, The Best We Could Do.
Cancelled Due to Weather: Walidah Imarisha returns to campus to talk about black history in Oregon
Walidah Imarisha describes herself as an historian at heart, reporter by (w)right, and rebel by reason. Winner of a 2017 Oregon Book Award for creative nonfiction for Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption, she also has edited two anthologies, authored a poetry collection, and is currently working on an Oregon Black history book.
Queer Studies Lecture: Chandan Reddy
Join us for Chandan Reddy's “Convergence, Dissymmetry, Duplicity: Enactments of Queer of Color Critique in the Era of Administrative Violence” Queer Studies Lecture. Chandan Reddy is an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington.