Category: Public Policy

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

[ February 5, 2020; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ]
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, Eugene.

Jane Junn is a professor of political science and gender and sexuality studies at […]

Sylvanna M. Falcón, “Finding ‘Light born in darkness:’ The Urgency of Feminist Activism in These Times”

Pictured is Sylvanna Falcon.

[ February 6, 2020; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ]
Knight Library, Browsing Room1501 Kincaid St., UO campus

Lorwin Lectureship Series 

“Finding ‘Light born in darkness:’ The Urgency of Feminist Activism in These Times”

Sylvanna M. Falcón, University of California, Santa Cruz

Dr. Sylvanna M. Falcón is an associate professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and the director of the Research Center for the Americas at […]

“Producers, Parasites, Patriots” — a new book by Daniel HoSang & Joseph Lowndes

Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity, by Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)

Joseph E. Lowndes is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oregon.

Daniel HoSang is an associate professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at […]

Christen Smith, “The Sequelae of Black Life in Brazil and the US: Violence, Gender, Space and Time”

Pictured is Christen Smith.

[ March 5, 2019; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Knight Library      Browsing Room      1501 Kincaid St.    UO campus
Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium

“The Sequelae of Black Life in Brazil and the US:
Violence, Gender, Space and Time”
Christen Smith, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology
University of Texas at Austin

Bio

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Christen Smith researches engendered anti-Black state violence […]

Canceled: Raka Ray: 2019 Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture

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[ April 25, 2019; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] This talk has been canceled.
Talk: 3:30 – 5 pm
Light refreshments: 3 – 3:30 pm
Ford Lecture Hall, JSMA
1430 Johnson Lane
UO campus
“Masculinity and Capitalism: A Brief History of the Rise and Fall of a Foundational Relationship”
Raka Ray, University of California, Berkeley
Raka Ray is professor of sociology and South and Southeast Asia studies, and the present Chair of […]

Joane Nagel: “Gender and Climate Change”

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[ November 30, 2018; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ] Room 175
Knight Law Center
1515 Agate St.
Gender and Climate Change, a lecture by Joane Nagel
Joane Nagel, University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Anthropology Department at the University of Kansas, is a political and cultural sociologist whose work focuses on ethnicities, genders, and sexualities in the US and the global system and the militarization […]