2:00–4:00 p.m.
A story of lesbian world-builders, Outliers and Outlaws uncovers the fabulous history of a large and vibrant lesbian community in Eugene, Oregon. Women who migrated to this small town in the 1960s-80s candidly share stories about the power of courageous and creative world-building. Through intimate portraits—both then and now—they show us how to live in hard times with hope, humor, and commitment to social change.
A Q&A with Director Courtney Hermann, Producer Judith Raiskin, and film subjects will follow the documentary. Cosponsored by the Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Center for the Study of Women in Society.
10:00–11:00 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 p.m.
Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center
Our world has become rife with peril and uncertainty. Indigenous writer Patty Krawec asks, “How do we survive everything that is happening? From climate change to polarizing politics to a seemingly endless cycle of displacement and erasure for modern-day land grabs, we live in a world that profits from instability and precarity. How do we survive? We survive not by drawing boundaries around ourselves and hoarding resources that must be expended to protect what will inevitably slip through our fingers. We survive by becoming kin. By remembering what it means to be related not only to each other but to the worlds around us. Revisiting our traditional stories, whatever those traditions may be, and re-imagining them in our contemporary world, can help us find new ways to see each other and forge the solidarities we need to survive.”
As the 2024–25 Robert D. Clark lecturer Patty Krawec will give a talk titled “Surviving Together.”
Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to the Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory Canada.
She is a founding director of the Nii’kinaaganaa (we are all related) Foundation which challenges settlers to pay rent for living on Indigenous land and disburses those funds to Indigenous people, meeting immediate survival needs as well as supporting the organizing and community building needed to address the structural issues that create those needs.
In her book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future (2022) Krawec critiques the harmful impact of European Christian settler colonialism on Indigenous Americans. She details Indigenous American history from the first humans to populate the Americas through the present and outlines ways in which descendants of European colonizers and Indigenous people can become ‘good relatives’.
Krawec’s talk, part of this year’s “Re-imagine” series, is free and open to the public and will be livestreamed and recorded. Please register.
4:00–5:00 p.m.
Join Global Education Oregon for an information session on our Summer 2025 Cinema Studies in Dublin program! This summer program is a fantastic opportunity to work both critically and creatively, taking courses on contemporary Irish cinema and digital filmmaking, as well as attending Ireland’s largest film festival held every year in Galway, the Film Fleadh. Weekly excursions and local outings in and around Dublin and the Irish countryside allow you to learn on location about the country’s rich film history and explore the sites where important historical events, and films about those events, took place.
This program has received high interest, and students are encouraged to apply early. The Cinema Studies in Dublin program is on a rolling admission application process, and the final deadline to apply in March 15.
4:30 p.m.
The Creative Writing Program invites you to a poetry reading with Peter Vertacnik.
Peter Vertacnik is the author of The Nature of Things Fragile (Criterion Books, 2024), winner of the 2023 New Criterion Poetry Prize. His poetry, translations, and criticism have appeared in journals such as 32 Poems, Bad Lilies, The Cortland Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Hopkins Review, Literary Matters, Poet Lore, and THINK, among others. With Chase Dearinger, Vertacnik is the co-director of the Cow Creek Chapbook Prize at Pittsburg State University. Currently he resides in northeast Florida where he teaches at Episcopal School of Jacksonville.
Free and open to the public.
For more information about the Creative Writing Reading Series, please visit https://humanities.uoregon.edu/creative-writing/reading-series
6:30 p.m.
The University of Oregon is hosting an immigration information and support session for our international, undocumented, and Dreamer students, faculty, and staff.
Essential Information: Gain up-to-date knowledge on immigration policies, and available resources for UO students. Expert Perspectives: Hear from legal professionals and university representatives on the evolving rules and policies. Community Building: Connect with fellow members of our diverse community and find support from peers and allies.Panelists:
Victor Essien, Immigration Attorney based in New York Betsy Boyd, senior associate vice president for federal affairs, UO Government and Community Relations Jessica Price, special counsel for research, ethics & international affairs, UO General Counsel’s Office Kristin Yarris, associate professor, Global Studies and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, department head, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, College of Arts and Sciences Eric Garcia, assistant director, training director, UO Counseling ServicesRepresentatives from the Dean of Students, Division of Global Engagement, and Division of Graduate Studies will be available for questions and support.
7:00–9:30 p.m.
Join us for a screening of the award-winning documentary film SOS–The San Onofre Syndrome: Nuclear Power’s Legacy. The film chronicles how Southern California residents came together to force the shutdown of an aging, leaking nuclear power plant only to be confronted by an alarming reality—tons of nuclear waste left near a popular beach, only 100 feet from the rising sea. The solution for the waste, to ship it to a storage site on Indigenous land in the Southwest, causes the residents to rethink the decision to export their toxic waste. The film’s producer/directors Mary Beth Brangan and James Heddle will engage in discussion following the screening.
This talk is part of the “Anti-Nuclear Research and Activism in the US and Japan” film and speaker series that links nuclear accidents in Japan with the U.S. The series will bring three speakers, two filmmakers, and one film to campus in winter and spring terms to discuss nuclear issues and activism in the U.S. and Japan. This series is of particular importance in the Pacific Northwest because of the Hanford Site in Washington and the new push for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors along the Columbia River.
1:00 p.m.
Join the creative writing program for an info session to learn more about the Walter and Nancy Kidd Creative Writing Workshops. This program is a unique studio experience for students to purse their passion for creative writing. The Kidd Workshops are open to all majors and feature a yearlong sequence of creative writing classes.
Applications for the 2025-26 academic year are due by March 8, 2025. For more information and to apply, please visit https://humanities.uoregon.edu/creative-writing/undergraduate-programs/kidd-workshops
5:10 p.m.
Please join the Department of History and Professor John Leisure for a documentary screening of Men with Cameras: Filming the 1923 Kantō Earthquake in Japan.
For more information, email Professor John Leisure at leisure@uoregon.edu.
Doors open at 5 pm.
2023 | 81 Minutes | Produced by Documentary Film Preservation Center, Tokyo
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Eman Abdelhadi is a scholar, organizer and writer based in Chicago. She is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her research has been cited by NPR, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, and other outlets. She co-wrote the revolutionary sci-fi novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 (Common Notions Press 2022), and she writes a regular column on Palestine and politics for In These Times Magazine.
She is a long-time organizer in the movement for Palestinian liberation and is currently active through Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at UChicago. She helped found the group Sociologists for Palestine, a group organizing within the American Sociological Association (ASA) to advance a resolution supporting a just peace in Israel-Palestine and has also been involved with the Uncommitted National Movement.
RSVP: tinyurl.com/emanabdelhadi