Featured Events

The Division of Equity and Inclusion hosts and partners with many others on campus to host events throughout the year.

 Heritage and History Months 
 African American Workshop and Lecture Series  
 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. UO and Community Events and Activities
Multicultural Calendar
 Implicit Bias Workshops  ♦  Religious Observances Calendar
 Event Funding Requests



Mar 28
Underwater Forests—Oregon's Kelp Ecosystems 10:00 a.m.

Experience Oregon's dynamic—yet fragile—kelp forest ecosystems and learn why this species is vital to Oregon and the world. Discover the critters that call...
Underwater Forests—Oregon's Kelp Ecosystems
October 28–September 15
10:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Museum of Natural and Cultural History

Experience Oregon's dynamic—yet fragile—kelp forest ecosystems and learn why this species is vital to Oregon and the world. Discover the critters that call Oregon's kelp forests home, the threats facing kelp today, and what we can do to help the kelp.

Mar 29
Underwater Forests—Oregon's Kelp Ecosystems 10:00 a.m.

Experience Oregon's dynamic—yet fragile—kelp forest ecosystems and learn why this species is vital to Oregon and the world. Discover the critters that call...
Underwater Forests—Oregon's Kelp Ecosystems
October 28–September 15
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Museum of Natural and Cultural History

Experience Oregon's dynamic—yet fragile—kelp forest ecosystems and learn why this species is vital to Oregon and the world. Discover the critters that call Oregon's kelp forests home, the threats facing kelp today, and what we can do to help the kelp.

Mar 30
Underwater Forests—Oregon's Kelp Ecosystems 10:00 a.m.

Experience Oregon's dynamic—yet fragile—kelp forest ecosystems and learn why this species is vital to Oregon and the world. Discover the critters that call...
Underwater Forests—Oregon's Kelp Ecosystems
October 28–September 15
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Museum of Natural and Cultural History

Experience Oregon's dynamic—yet fragile—kelp forest ecosystems and learn why this species is vital to Oregon and the world. Discover the critters that call Oregon's kelp forests home, the threats facing kelp today, and what we can do to help the kelp.

Mar 31
Underwater Forests—Oregon's Kelp Ecosystems 10:00 a.m.

Experience Oregon's dynamic—yet fragile—kelp forest ecosystems and learn why this species is vital to Oregon and the world. Discover the critters that call...
Underwater Forests—Oregon's Kelp Ecosystems
October 28–September 15
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Museum of Natural and Cultural History

Experience Oregon's dynamic—yet fragile—kelp forest ecosystems and learn why this species is vital to Oregon and the world. Discover the critters that call Oregon's kelp forests home, the threats facing kelp today, and what we can do to help the kelp.

Apr 3
Underwater Forests—Oregon's Kelp Ecosystems 10:00 a.m.

Experience Oregon's dynamic—yet fragile—kelp forest ecosystems and learn why this species is vital to Oregon and the world. Discover the critters that call...
Underwater Forests—Oregon's Kelp Ecosystems
October 28–September 15
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Museum of Natural and Cultural History

Experience Oregon's dynamic—yet fragile—kelp forest ecosystems and learn why this species is vital to Oregon and the world. Discover the critters that call Oregon's kelp forests home, the threats facing kelp today, and what we can do to help the kelp.

Apr 3
Alison Saar: Uproot 6:00 p.m.

RSVP: https://jsma.uoregon.edu/artist-talk-alison-saar Alison Saar is a Los Angeles based sculptor, mixed-media, and installation artist. Her artwork focuses on the...
Alison Saar: Uproot
April 3
6:00 p.m.
Prince Lucien Campbell Hall (PLC) 180, reception to follow at the JSMA

RSVP: https://jsma.uoregon.edu/artist-talk-alison-saar

Alison Saar is a Los Angeles based sculptor, mixed-media, and installation artist. Her artwork focuses on the African diaspora and Black female identity and is influenced by African, Caribbean, and Latin American folk art and spirituality. She will discuss her recent works, three of which are on view at the JSMA in Strange Weather: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and My Body, My Choice? Art and Reproductive Justice. Grow’d (2019), a life-sized, bronze statue depicting the literary character Topsy from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, monumentalizes the intersecting histories of cotton, slavery, and identity in the United States. Uproot and Plucked (2023), a pair of double-sided paintings on vintage cotton-picking bags, respond to the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Alison Saar’s visit is sponsored by Jordan D. Schnitzer.

Apr 4
Underwater Forests—Oregon's Kelp Ecosystems 10:00 a.m.

Experience Oregon's dynamic—yet fragile—kelp forest ecosystems and learn why this species is vital to Oregon and the world. Discover the critters that call...
Underwater Forests—Oregon's Kelp Ecosystems
October 28–September 15
10:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Museum of Natural and Cultural History

Experience Oregon's dynamic—yet fragile—kelp forest ecosystems and learn why this species is vital to Oregon and the world. Discover the critters that call Oregon's kelp forests home, the threats facing kelp today, and what we can do to help the kelp.

Apr 4
EXTRA! EXTRA! DON'T KILL THE MESSENGER 1:00 p.m.

IMPUNITY: Thursday, April 4   This is a 4-day symposium! Please register for each section you'd like to attend.   RSVP   The UO community is...
EXTRA! EXTRA! DON'T KILL THE MESSENGER
April 4
1:00–7:30 p.m.
Erb Memorial Union (EMU) Ballroom

IMPUNITY: Thursday, April 4

 

This is a 4-day symposium! Please register for each section you'd like to attend.

 

RSVP

 

The UO community is invited to this enlightening 4-day symposium to listen to and converse with international journalists, writers in exile, and scholars of journalism starting April 4 to 7 in the EMU Ballroom. Dozens of global experts and partners will be on our campus to tell their stories of successful reporting despite extreme dangers and threat to their voice and journalistic integrity. Threatened journalists speak and inspire our students, faculty, and staff.

 

During this event, you’ll experience, witness, and engage in:

 

Graphic documentation of attacks on journalists is displayed.

Interludes of music and poetry stimulate contemplation, reflection, and discussion.

Conversation and connection with speakers and experts during coffee breaks and receptions.

Off-campus students reporting on how the journalism crisis in Mexico impacts migrant communities in Oregon.

 

 

Schedule:

1:00-2:00 p.m. Welcome remarks with Peter Laufer, Kim Stafford, Juan-Carlos Molleda, Tim DuRoche, Dennis Galvan 

 

2:00-2:30 p.m. Reporting Homefront News to Diasporas with Charlie Dietz, Julie Boboc, Marie Ponce 

 

2:30-3:30 p.m. In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, A Cover-up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press a conversation with Katherine Corcoran (with Tim DuRoche) 

 

4:00-5:00 p.m. Why I Have Not Returned to Mississippi since Covering MLK in the 60s a conversation with Jeff Kamen (with Peter Laufer)

 

5:00-6:00 p.m. UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication: Safe Spaces for Journalists in Conflict Situation a talk with Kate Musgrave

 

6:00-6:30 p.m. Musicians in Exile Music curated by Tim DuRoche 

 

6:30-7:30 p.m. Reception

 

Apr 4
"'Surplus' White Nationalism and GOP Climate Obstruction" 4:00 p.m.

In this talk, Pulido considers the relationship between U.S. white nationalism and the Republican Party’s (GOP) record of climate obstruction. Though the fossil fuel...
"'Surplus' White Nationalism and GOP Climate Obstruction"
April 4
4:00 p.m.

In this talk, Pulido considers the relationship between U.S. white nationalism and the Republican Party’s (GOP) record of climate obstruction. Though the fossil fuel industry’s campaign of disinformation has been well-documented, less understood are the politicians who do its bidding. While many assume the state is simply implementing the desires of the fossil fuel industry, what is called, regulatory capture, this assumes a nonracial state. Pulido argues that regulatory capture does not fully explain the current GOP’s commitment to blocking climate action. Instead, she suggest that “surplus” white nationalism has contributed to both climate denial and obstruction. Pulido defines surplus white nationalism as the excessive energy and power of white nationalism that cannot be contained or selectively controlled. Because it spills over onto seemingly unrelated areas with sometimes unanticipated consequence—it is surplus.

Laura Pulido is the Collins Chair and Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and Geography at the University of Oregon where she studies race, environmental justice, and cultural memory. 

Most of her research explores the relationship between race, place, and social and environmental processes. She has devoted much of her career to studying environmental racism, especially how racism is conceptualized and operationalized in the scholarship and practice of environmental justice. Most recently, she has been studying how white supremacy and white nationalism impact climate denial and refusal.

She is a co-organizer of the Just Futures Institute at the University of Oregon, funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, which focuses on racial and environmental justice in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. In addition to her work on environmental justice, she has been studying the role of cultural memory in the U.S. white nation. Currently she is working with the InfoGraphics Lab at the University of Oregon to produce a thematic atlas entitled, Monumental Denial: U.S. Cultural Memory and White Innocence.

Apr 5
EXTRA! EXTRA! DON'T KILL THE MESSENGER 8:45 a.m.

FROM KABUL TO HARARE: Friday, April 5   This is a 4-day symposium! Please register for each section you'd like to attend.    RSVP   The...
EXTRA! EXTRA! DON'T KILL THE MESSENGER
April 5
8:45 a.m.–9:30 p.m.
Erb Memorial Union (EMU) EMU Ballroom

FROM KABUL TO HARARE: Friday, April 5

 

This is a 4-day symposium! Please register for each section you'd like to attend.

 

 RSVP

 

The UO community is invited to this enlightening 4-day symposium to listen to and converse with international journalists, writers in exile, and scholars of journalism starting April 4 to 7 in the EMU Ballroom. Dozens of global experts and partners will be on our campus to tell their stories of successful reporting despite extreme dangers and threat to their voice and journalistic integrity. Threatened journalists speak and inspire our students, faculty, and staff.

 

During this event, you’ll experience, witness, and engage in:

 

Graphic documentation of attacks on journalists is displayed.

Interludes of music and poetry stimulate contemplation, reflection, and discussion.

Conversation and connection with speakers and experts during coffee breaks and receptions.

Off-campus students reporting on how the journalism crisis in Mexico impacts migrant communities in Oregon.

 

 

Schedule:

8:45-9:00 a.m. Welcoming remarks and poem with Peter Laufer and Kim Stafford 

 

9:00-10:00 a.m. Keeping the Lights On - Highlights from the Latest Research on Media in Exile and What they Need to Keep Reporting a talk with Alex Cole 

 

10:15-11:15 a.m. Sounds of Exile music and conversation with Won Kim (and Tim DuRoche) 

 

11:15-2:00 p.m. City Club of Eugene Event with Farai Gonzo, Charlie Dietz, and Kimberley Mangnun as speakers 

 

3:00-4:00 p.m. Taking Root in Foreign Soil a talk with Astrid Vehstedt 

 

4:00-5:00 p.m. Exiled from Kabul a talk with Baktash Siawash

 

5:00-5:30 p.m. Appetizers

 

5:30-6:30 p.m. My Tour of Duty as Journalist in Zimbabwe: The Intersectionality of the Social Institutions that Affect a Zimbabwean a talk with Farai Gonzo 

 

7:00-8:30 p.m. Screening of the documentary about Chipas journalists Juan de Dios García Davish and Maria de Jesús Peters

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