10:00 a.m.
Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!
4:00–5:30 p.m.
Roots and Rhythms: A Conversation on Afrodescendencia, Indigenous Heritage, and Community Empowerment in Mexico and Puerto Rico
April 29 / 4PM-5:30PM / Lawrence 115
Join us for a research colloquium as we delve into the intersections of Afrodescendencia, Indigenous heritage, and community empowerment in Mexico and Puerto Rico.
Alai Reyes-Santos (Professor of Practice, UO School of Law) and Abigayle Mitchell (Grad Student, UO School of Law) will present their research on La Piedra del Sapo, a significant Indigenous site in Puerto Rico. They'll explore how this site can facilitate meaningful engagement with the past and shape sustainable futures for the people of Cidra and the Puerto Rican diaspora.
Abraham Landa (Grad Student, Ethnomusicology) will share his research project, "Black Mexico: Music, Dance, and the Construction of Afrodescendencia in Costa Chica." This project examines the performance of African music and dance in Costa Chica, Mexico, and how Afro-Mexican communities use cultural expressions to claim historical presence and cultural recognition.
This event provides a platform for CLLAS-funded researchers to share their findings and engage in a broader conversation about the significance of these topics. We hope to see you there!
noon
Preserving Latinx Stories: A Conversation with NPR's VP of Research, Archives, and Strategy Laura Soto-Barra
April 30 / 12pm-1pm / Zoom
Join us for a virtual conversation with Laura Soto-Barra, NPR's Vice President of Research, Archives, and Strategy. Learn about NPR's archival work, the significance of preserving Latinx stories from the 1980s, and efforts to digitize and preserve Latinx voices. Moderated by Chris Chávez, CLLAS Director.
CLICK HERE TO JOIN VIA ZOOM
1:30–2:30 p.m.
This event, offered by the University of Tennessee Knoxville, is an opportunity for postdoctoral scholars to gain valuable insights and guidance as they navigate their career paths. Former postdocs will share their personal experiences and provide invaluable advice to help postdocs achieve their career goals
This "Academic Teaching Panel" workshop will bring former postdocs who are current assistant professors at other US institutions. They will share their search experience, including interview/negotiation, tips, and tricks.
Register using your UO email address at https://tennessee.zoom.us/meeting/register/Docx_ki8R4-HNNcQ-hECuA#/registration
5:30–7:00 p.m.
As the Trump administration hits its 100-day mark, UO faculty from History, Law, and Political Science help make sense of the headlines and place today’s events in historical context. Pizza will be served.
DEPORTATION: Wednesday, April 23, 2025 AUTHORITARIANISM: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
All events held from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm in McKenzie Hall 375. Free and open to the public
2:00–5:00 p.m.
The Department of Romance Languages will host three exciting guest speakers as part of a Symposium on Gender, Race, and Empire. All sessions will be in the Knight Library Dream Lab (Knight 121).
May 1, 2:00
Prof. Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel (French, Emory University): "Textured Archives: An Afrofeminist Creative Praxis of Hair, History, and Intimate Methodologies"
May 1, 3:30
Prof. Nicholas Jones (Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University): "Cervantine Blackness: A Breakup with Academia's Languages for a Revolutionary Situation"
May 2, 12:00
Prof. Estefanía Bournot (Latin America Studies, Harvard University and the Austrian Academy of Sciences): "The Specular Atlantic: South-South Readings and Diasporic (Be)Longings"
4:00–5:30 p.m.
Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He also chairs the Hoover Institution Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region and is the principal investigator of the Global Digital Policy Incubator, part of Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center. Diamond has served as a consultant to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and advised and lectured to the World Bank, the United Nations, the State Department, and other agencies dealing with governance and development. His books include In Search of Democracy (2016), and The Spirit of Democracy (2008). He has edited or coedited some fifty books on democratic development around the world.
Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a faculty member of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. He is also director of Stanford's Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy. Fukuyama has written widely on issues in development and international politics. His 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man, has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His latest book, Liberalism and Its Discontents, was published in May 2022.
This event is sponsored by the School of Global Studies and Languages, Global Studies Institute in the Division of Global Engagement, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, and the Department of Political Science.
Free and open to the public.
noon
The Department of Romance Languages will host three exciting guest speakers as part of a Symposium on Gender, Race, and Empire. All sessions will be in the Knight Library Dream Lab (Knight 121).
May 1, 2:00
Prof. Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel (French, Emory University): "Textured Archives: An Afrofeminist Creative Praxis of Hair, History, and Intimate Methodologies"
May 1, 3:30
Prof. Nicholas Jones (Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University): "Cervantine Blackness: A Breakup with Academia's Languages for a Revolutionary Situation"
May 2, 12:00
Prof. Estefanía Bournot (Latin America Studies, Harvard University and the Austrian Academy of Sciences): "The Specular Atlantic: South-South Readings and Diasporic (Be)Longings"
10:00 a.m.
Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!
4:00–5:30 p.m.
Dr. Hamblin is a leading environmental historian and expert on the international dimensions of science, technology, and the environment, especially related to nuclear issues, ecology, oceans, and climate. His 2021 book The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology won the Oregon Book Award in general nonfiction. He also recently co-edited Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure, which came out of his National Science Foundation funded Downwinders Project about Hanford and other nuclear sites. He will speak about the long history of using animals, humans, and computer simulations to model harm from radiation effects.
This is the third event in the series Anti-Nuclear Research and Activism in the US and Japan. For more information contact: Rachel DiNitto rdinitto@uoregon.edu
Sponsored by College of Arts & Sciences, School of Global Studies & Languages, and Oregon Humanities Center