| October 12, 2017 | ||
| 3:30 pm | to | 5:00 pm |
Walidah Imarisha
“Why Aren’t There More Black People in Oregon?: A Hidden History”
Talk followed by Q&A
Thursday, October 12, 2017
3:30 – 5:00 PM
Lillis Hall
Lillis 182 Lecture Hall
955 E 13th Ave.
(13th & Kincaid Streets)
University of Oregon Campus
(Please note change of venue above! We have moved the location of this talk to a larger space to better accommodate the growing interest we have heard in response to this speaker.)
LIVESTREAM OF THIS LECTURE
(will be available during her talk, and then digitally archived after the fact; check back here for video archive information)
Walidah Imarisha describes herself as an historian at heart, reporter by (w)right, and rebel by reason. Winner of a 2017 Oregon Book Award for creative nonfiction for Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption, she also has edited two anthologies, authored a poetry collection, and is currently working on an Oregon Black history book, forthcoming from AK Press.
Imarisha has taught in Stanford University’s Program of Writing and Rhetoric, Portland State University’s Black Studies Department, Oregon State University’s Women Gender Sexuality Studies Department, and Southern New Hampshire University’s English Department. She spent six years with Oregon Humanities’ Conversation Project as a public scholar facilitating programs across Oregon about Oregon Black history, alternatives to incarceration, and the history of hip hop.
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society
Co-sponsored by the Division of Equity & Inclusion; the Wayne Morse Center for Law & Politics; Oregon Humanities Center; UO Libraries; Office of the Dean of Students; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Education and Support Services (LGBTESS); Undergraduate Studies; and the Department of Ethnic Studies.
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