Category: Lorwin Lecture

Alicia Garza talk postponed, new date TBA

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Note: This event will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21. “Alicia Garza is an Oakland-based organizer, writer, public speaker and freedom dreamer who is currently the Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the nation’s leading voice for dignity…

Postponed: Christina Sharpe, “Black. Still. Life.”

NOTE: This event will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21. Lorwin Lectureship Series Christina Sharpe, one of the most important contemporary scholars in Black Diaspora Thought and Cultures, is professor of humanities at York University. From the York University website: “Sharpe’s…

Karla Holloway: “From Fact to Fiction: A Colored Life in Letters”

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Ford Lecture Hall JSMA UO campus Lorwin Lectureship Series Karla FC Holloway, James B. Duke Professor Emerita of English at Duke University, will visit the University of Oregon campus March 3 – 5. Her featured lecture is titled “From Fact…

Feb. 17: Tina Campt, “The New Black Gaze”

Ford Lecture Hall, JSMA Lorwin Lectureship Series Tina M. Campt is Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University. She is a founding member of the Practicing Refusal Collective, and the author of…

Sylvanna M. Falcón, “Finding ‘Light born in darkness:’ The Urgency of Feminist Activism in These Times”

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Knight Library, Browsing Room1501 Kincaid St., UO campus Lorwin Lectureship Series  “Finding ‘Light born in darkness:’ The Urgency of Feminist Activism in These Times” Sylvanna M. Falcón, University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. Sylvanna M. Falcón is an associate professor in…

Rhaisa Williams, “Screaming to Dream: Toni Morrison, Emmett Till, and Black Maternal Grief”

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Gerlinger Lounge, 1468 University St. Lorwin Lectureship Series Rhaisa Kameela Williams is assistant professor of Theater and Performance Studies in the Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis. Williams’ research uses mixed-archive methods—spanning across literature, family history, archives,…