Category: Events

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: Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Queer Studies Lecture

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Note: This event will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21. Queer Studies Lecture “Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance” Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan  Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes lists his main research interests…

Postponed: John Collins, “Recent Crises in Representation and Racialized Mediation”

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NOTE: This talk will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21. Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium John Collins, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Queens College & the CUNY Graduate Center Since the mid-1990s, John Collins has conducted ethnographic research on UNESCO world heritage…

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. 13: Annie Isabel Fukushima,  “Witnessing Violence in These Migratory Times”

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Knight Library, Browsing Room1501 Kincaid St., UO camp Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium Lecture:  “Witnessing Violence in These Migratory Times” Dr. Annie Isabel Fukushima is an assistant professor in the Ethnic Studies Division of the School for Cultural & Social…