a Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics This two-day symposium, March 8-9, 2012, focuses on human rights and capitalism. Issues will include how to measure economic progress, human rights and the economy, women’s unpaid labor, the care crisis, and…
Category: Research
Fighting Impunity in National Courts: Human Rights & Transitional Justice in Latin America
Knight Library, Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus This talk addresses critical issues in the efforts to bring to court human rights violators in Latin America. It discusses two types of national courts litigation: first, when litigation is available…
Symposium: “Place and Displacement in African American Literature”
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Eve Dunbar (Vassar), “Place and Displacement in the Ethnographic and Literary Writings of Zora Neale Hurston” Courtney Thorsson (U Oregon), “Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes” Emily Lordi (U Mass), “’Move’: Literary Historiography and the…
UO Today #469: Dr. Beverly Wright
UO Today #469: Dr. Beverly Wright Posted on Feb 9th, 2011 in Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today Dr. Beverly Wright, environmental scholar and founding director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University, discusses her work advocating for the…
Dealing Head-on with Issues of Environmental Racism
Introduction for Dr. Beverly Wright, Director, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice by Margaret L. Paris, Philip H. Knight Dean and Professor, University of Oregon School of Law Dr. Wright spoke on “The Perilous Consequences of Public Policy Decisions: Weathering…
“The Perilous Consequences of Public Policy Decisions: Weathering the Storm of Natural and Man-made Disasters in the Gulf”—Dr. Beverly Wright
EMU Ballroom 1222 E. 13th Ave. University of Oregon Dr. Beverly Wright, environmental justice scholar and activist, is the founder of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice currently at Dillard University in New Orleans. The Center addresses environmental and…
