Category: Race

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”

Pictured is Karla Holloway.

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…

Women Voters: Race, Gender, and Dynamism in U.S. Presidential Elections

On Wednesday, Feb. 5, Jane Junn, University of Southern California, will be giving a talk on “Women Voters: Race, Gender, and Dynamism in U.S. Presidential Elections” from 6:30–8 p.m. in the William W. Knight Law Center, Room 175, 1515 Agate Street,…

Renisa Mawani: Across Oceans of Law

Erb Memorial Union EMU 230, Swindells Room Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium Speaker: Renisa Mawani, Professor, Sociology Chair, Law and Society Minor Program, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia In 1914 the S.S. Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying…