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University of Oregon Disability Studies Forum 2013

This informal lunch and roundtable features two distinguished guest speakers in the field of disability studies as well as presentations of research by UO faculty members and graduate students. Our goals for this event are to bring UO faculty and graduate student researchers into a discussion together about disability studies, to provide mentorship to graduate students working in the field, and to raise awareness of disability studies across the university.

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Laura Edwards—“Women, Law, and Culture:  Rethinking Legal Change in the Civil War Era”

This presentation is about the ways that ordinary people in the South, particularly African American women, contributed to the legal changes that we associate with the Reconstruction Amendments and top-down change. These groups had a much broader, expansive notion of “rights” and also of what the government should accomplish—and those ideas, in part, were based in expansive notions of local governance and in the culture of the South.

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Conference: “Alternative Sovereignties: Decolonization Through Indigenous Vision and Struggle”

The Alternative Sovereignties: Decolonization through Indigenous Vision and Struggle conference will be held May 8 – 10 at the Many Nations Longhouse and the EMU. The conference seeks to further academic discussions about American Indian and First Nations sovereignty in all of its manifestations, and position Native peoples at the center of those debates and to build intellectual and institutional relationships throughout the broader Pacific Northwest.

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Public Lecture by Libby Larsen, Composer

Libby Larsen

Collier House Living Room 1170 E. 13th Ave. UO campus

, composer and co-founder of American Composers Forum, will give a public lecture on her work and experience as one of America’s most performed living composers.

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“Botanical Interventions: Rebuilding Landscapes, Reshaping Communities” — Oliver Kellhammer & Jennifer Burns Levin

A Fireside Conversation with Oliver Kellhammer, a permaculture artist, writer, and teacher specializing in ecological restoration and land art, and Jennifer Burns Levin, who teaches literature in the UO Clark Honors College. The two will talk about Kellhammer's interest in the shifting power relationships within public urban spaces and his own work on "botanical interventions," land art that facilitates the healing processes of damaged landscapes and creates opportunities for more productive, mutually beneficial relationships between people and the environment.

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2014 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “Family, Animal, Story”

Our keynote writer is 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award-winner and New York Times–bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler, whose novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves has opened up new ways of talking about family dynamics and the ethics of animal research. Saturday’s panels and workshops will meet at Eugene Downtown Public Library. All events are free and open to the public. 

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NWWS Reading: 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award winner Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler —the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award winner for fiction—will read from her work at Eugene Downtown Public Library, which will be open for the first Friday Art Walk. This event is free & open to the public. Fowler’s recent novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, has opened up new ways of talking about family dynamics and the ethics of animal research.

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