10:00–11:30 a.m.
Wednesday, February 25, 2025
10:00am - 11:30am
Lokey 116
Light Refreshments
✨ Calling all majors and minors in ES, NAIS, BLST, and LTNX✨
The path after college isn’t always clear, but IRES and ethnic studies alumni are here to help!
Please join us for an IRES careers and mentorship panel featuring four University of Oregon ethnic studies alumni with experience working in non-profits, organizing, government, law, art, social work, education, and more.
Build knowledge, build confidence, build networks, connect with mentors in your field.
noon
Please join the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for the 2026 Sally M. Gearhart Lecture with Kemi Adeyemi, Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, on “Bad Dance: Making Queer and Lesbian Community.”
To hear them tell it, studs are bad dancers: awkward, self-conscious, unsure of the steps, their weight, or what to do with their hands. They knock knees, can’t hold twerkers up, and aren’t smooth enough. These descriptions circulate as shared knowledge, shaping expectations about who moves well, who is in the middle of the club, who ends up on the wall—and who is worthy of partnership on and off the dance floor.
This talk takes black queer people seriously as self-described “bad” dancers in order to think about the relationships between sexuality and movement, and the role of dance in shaping individual identity and collective life. I argue that narratives of bad dancing reveal how the meanings of lesbian and queer community depend upon the coordination of movement: shared rhythms that are embedded with expectations about racialized gender, sexuality, and desire. Focusing on moments when dance technique breaks down highlights how disillusionment and alienation are central, rather than incidental, to queer and lesbian dance floors—and disrupting the celebratory accounts of dance and sexuality studies can lead us to more nuanced theorizations of the politics of queer and lesbian life. Kemi Adeyemi is Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Feels Right: Black Queer Women & the Politics of Partying in Chicago (Duke University Press, 2022) and co-editor of the volume Queer Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2021). Her forthcoming manual, Writing About Black Art, is a 2023 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Kemi founded and directs The Black Embodiments Studio, an arts writing incubator, public programming initiative, and publishing platform dedicated to building discourse around contemporary black art.
The Sally Miller Gearhart Lecture Series advances lesbian history and culture, promotes dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity, supports diversity and empowers lesbian voices in higher education.
2:00–4:00 p.m.
From Jan. 21 and continuing until March 18, the Northwest Native American Language Resource Center (NW-NALRC) will be holding weekly consultation and assistance times.
From 2-3pm PST we will be providing consultation and assistance with Community Projects and Planning.
From 3-4pm PST we will be providing consultation and assistance for Supporting Language Teaching and Learning.
To join, please fill out this short form https://forms.office.com/r/D2pg3wErfj.
If you are in need of assistance, or if you have any questions, please contact nalrc@uoregon.edu.
5:00–6:30 p.m.
Join us for a film screening and Q&A with director Jeff Gipe. Half-Life of Memory: America's Forgotten Atomic Bomb Factory exposes the dangerous legacy of Rocky Flats, the central nuclear bomb production facility in the United States from 1952 until 1989, located near Denver, Colorado. The most notorious instances of contamination, neglect, and cover-ups occurred at the Rocky Flats--radioactive and hazardous waste was illegally dumped, released in deadly fires at the site, and contaminated the Denver metro area with long-lived radioactive toxins. Through powerful testimonials and extraordinary archival media, Half-Life of Memory reveals Rocky Flats' dark past and prompts critical reflection on the implications of the nation's renewed nuclear weapons buildup
Sponsors: Center for Environmental Futures, Oregon Humanities Center
5:30–7:30 p.m.
The Latinx Studies Program at the UO and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art invite you to join us for a night at the museum!
- Learn about the Latinx Studies minor - Meet Latinx Studies students, faculty, and allies - Discover opportunities for mentorship - Enjoy drinks, snacks, and music - Talk about art with artist and UO faculty Michael Rey
6:00–7:30 p.m.
Learn about different career paths in the real estate industry and the foundations of financial analysis from guest speakers, hands-on workshops, and site tours. Join the UO Real Estate Investment Group for our weekly meetings every Wednesday in Lillis 132 from 6:00–7:30 p.m.! Our club is open to all and no application is required.
7:30 p.m.
Filmlandia Screening Series presents: Drive, He Said (1971). Free with UO ID.
Directed by Jack Nicholson | 90 min. | Rated R
Synopsis: The star player of a college basketball team starts to go off the rails with an illicit love affair and his roommate going crazy to avoid the war draft.
The Department of Cinema Studies and the University Film Society celebrate Oregon’s rich film heritage with a new screening series showcasing movies with a unique Oregon connection—from locally shot features to stories written or directed by Oregon filmmakers. Discover Oregon’s reel legacy on the big screen while connecting with the university film community.
Cosponsored by: Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment; Department of Comparative Literature; Department of English; Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies; Native American and Indigenous Studies; Folklore and Public Culture Program; Art House Theater; DUX Present; and Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities.
noon
The Composition Writing Lab is holding a drop-in event focused on research and writing support heading into finals for WR 121z, WR 122z, and WR 123 course assignments – come ask questions, get research help from a UO Libraries expert, and chat with tutors! Snacks will be provided, along with support and resources for students in these courses.
The lab is to the left of the elevators on the third floor of Tykeson Hall.
3:00–3:50 p.m.
What happen to jobs, wages, and opportunity as AI transforms the labor market? Join leading economist Betsey Stevenson for a conversation on research, policy, and what today's students should know about tomorrow's workforce. Live Q&A.
4:00 p.m.
Please join the Department of Geography for the Colloquium Series talk: “Storing the Renewable Energy Transition: Emerging Critical Geographies of Green Hydrogen” with Kelly Kay, Associate Professor in the Geography Department at UCLA.
“Green hydrogen has been touted as “the holy grail of decarbonization” (Scita et al. 2020) due to its perceived versatility and promise as a viable alternative for difficult to decarbonize sectors, including shipping, trucking, aviation, iron and steel, and chemicals. Despite such optimism, many green hydrogen projects have recently failed. This presentation draws on new and ongoing research from Australia and Utah to understand the uneven rollout of green hydrogen technologies, their early successes and failures, and the social and environmental justice dimensions of hydrogen’s current deployments. In particular, in my talk I will focus on three key features of the current conjuncture: hydrogen’s distinct materiality—including what I call its “fuelness,” hydrogen’s reliance on increasingly unstable forms of green state capitalism, and hydrogen’s distinct remaking of hydrosocial relations and the water-energy nexus.”
Kelly Kay is an Associate Professor in the Geography Department at UCLA. She completed her PhD in Geography at Clark University, and prior to UCLA, she held positions at the London School of Economics and UC Berkeley. Kelly is a political ecologist who draws heavily from geographical political economy and legal geography, and her work tackles questions of natural resource management and governance in North America. Currently, she is working on a book project looking at the impacts of institutional investment of timberland on rural communities in Georgia and Oregon. She has also begun work on a new research project on the framing of green hydrogen as a renewable energy panacea and the ecological and social impacts of the emergent hydrogen economy in the US and Australia.