The CSWS 2023 Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture will be delivered by scholar Michelle Murphy as a closing event to "Ghost Forest"—an exhibition by Eugene artist Sarah Grew at the LaVerne Krause Gallery, featuring Jon Bellona’s sound installation “Wildfire.”
Murphy (they/them) is a Professor in the History Department and Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, and a technoscience studies scholar and historian of the recent past whose research concerns decolonial approaches to environmental justice; reproductive justice; Indigenous science and technology studies; infrastructures and data studies; race and science; and finance and economic practices. Murphy's current research focuses on the relationships between pollution, colonialism, and technoscience on the lower Great Lakes. Murphy is a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Science & Technology Studies and Environmental Data Justice, as well as Co-Director of the Technoscience Research Unit, which hosts a lab and is home for social justice and decolonial approaches to Science and Technology Studies. They are Métis from Winnipeg, from a mixed Métis and French Canadian family.
The lecture and exhibit is part of “Haunting Ecologies: The Past, Present, and Future of Feminist and Indigenous Approaches to Forest Fire,” a project sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) and UO Environment Initiative partnership.