Category: Lectures

Women Voters: Race, Gender, and Dynamism in U.S. Presidential Elections

On Wednesday, Feb. 5, Jane Junn, University of Southern California, will be giving a talk on “Women Voters: Race, Gender, and Dynamism in U.S. Presidential Elections” from 6:30–8 p.m. in the William W. Knight Law Center, Room 175, 1515 Agate Street,…

Renisa Mawani: Across Oceans of Law

Erb Memorial Union EMU 230, Swindells Room Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium Speaker: Renisa Mawani, Professor, Sociology Chair, Law and Society Minor Program, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia In 1914 the S.S. Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying…

Tiffany L. King, “The When and Where of Our Talk: The Shoals of Black and Native Feminisms”

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Knight Library, Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium “The When and Where of Our Talk: The Shoals of Black and Native Feminisms” Tiffany Lethabo King, Georgia State University Tiffany Lethabo King is an assistant…

“Making a Case for Ecofeminist Theology in Islam” — Nayawiyyah U. Muhammad

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253 Straub Hall “Making a Case for Ecofeminist Theology in Islam: The Process and Application of Synthesizing Islam Feminist Longings and Ecological Concerns” by Nayawiyyah U. Muhammad Nayawiyyah Muhammad is a professor in the department of Religious Studies at California…

Mimi Nguyen: Of Gifts, Debts, and Threats

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A public talk in conversation with UO’s 2018-2019 Common Reading Book, The Best We Could Do 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…

Samantha Irby, Keynote Speaker: Women in Media Symposium

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182 Lillis 955 E. 13th Ave. UO campusFor full information about the symposium: https://library.uoregon.edu/women_media_symposium Samantha Irby is a popular comedian and author who writes a blog called Bitches Gotta Eat. Her first book, Meaty, follows Irby through failed relationships, taco…