Category: Events

“Economies of Blood in East Africa: From Witchcraft to Transfusions,” Dr. Melissa Graboyes

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. African Studies Lecture Series Africa/Economies Please join us Thursday, May 22nd, from 12-1.15 pm in the Knight Library Browsing Room for the final lecture this year in the African Studies Lecture Series. The…

“Women in War: The Case of El Salvador,” with Jocelyn Viterna

Lawrence 166 1190 Franklin Blvd UO campus Flyer PDF Waging war has historically been an almost exclusively male endeavor. Yet over the past several decades, women have joined insurgent armies in significant and surprising numbers. Why do women become guerrilla…

Conference: “Alternative Sovereignties: Decolonization Through Indigenous Vision and Struggle”

University of Oregon May 8 – 10 The Alternative Sovereignties: Decolonization through Indigenous Vision and Struggle conference will be held May 8 – 10 at the Many Nations Longhouse and the EMU. The conference seeks to further academic discussions about…

Kimberly Theidon — “Speaking of Silences: Gender, Violence and Reparations in Peru”

204 Condon Hall 1321 Kincaid University of Oregon A talk by Dr. Kimberly Theidon (Harvard University) Kimberly Theidon is a medical anthropologist focusing on Latin America. Her research interests include domestic, structural and political violence; gender studies; human rights and…

“Too Many P’s”? Personal, Political, Publics and Potatoes — a conversation about the politics of food and kinship with novelist Ruth Ozeki

Erb Memorial Union (EMU) Fir Room, 1222 E. 13th Ave. UO campus    FREE & open to the public “Too Many P’s”? Personal, Political, Publics and Potatoes Ruth Ozeki will read from her novel, All Over Creation, and will be joined…