Note: This event will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21.
Alicia Garza
“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 and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United […]
NOTE: This event will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21.
Lorwin Lectureship Series
Christina Sharpe
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 research in Black visual and performance arts, Black literatures and cultures, Black feminist theories and […]
[ March 4, 2020; 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ]
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 to Fiction: A Colored Life in Letters.” She will participate also in a series of other […]
[ February 17, 2020; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ]
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 three books: Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory […]
[ February 6, 2020; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ]
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 the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and the director of the Research Center for the Americas at […]
[ October 25, 2019; 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. ]
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, and public policy—to focus on the intersections of blackness, motherhood, affect, and disquieting modes of freedom.
Rhaisa […]
