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.
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
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes lists his main research interests as queer/LGBT Hispanic Caribbean (Cuban, Dominican, Puerto Rican) studies, U.S. Latina/o, and Latin American literary, […]
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 sites, urban restoration programs, and their relationships to national histories and racial politics in Brazil. This gave rise […]
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 13, 2020; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ]
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 Transformation at University of Utah. Prior to joining the faculty in Utah, she earned her Ph.D. in Ethnic […]
