Events

The University of Oregon's Environmental and Natural Resources Law (ENR) Center and cross-campus partners will present the 20th Annual Rennard Strickland Lecture—featuring Bryan Newland (Ojibwe), former US Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs—via Zoom Webinar. Register for the webinar through Zoom or on our event page. 

Newland will present his virtual talk, "The Vanishing Indian Property Rights: How Federal Courts are Stripping Indians of the Rights to Their Own Lands." 

Bryan Newland is a citizen of the Bay Mills Indian Community, where he served as Tribal President from 2017 to 2021 and Chief Judge from 2013 to 2017. From 2021 to 2025, he served as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs in the US Department of the Interior, where he led the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Education, and Bureau of Trust Funds Administration. As Assistant Secretary, Newland helped coordinate a historic $45B investment in Indian Country; led the development of a co-stewardship policy to promote public-land management agreements between federal agencies and Tribal Nations; and worked to implement the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, a comprehensive effort to recognize the troubled legacy of federal Indian boarding school policies and to address these policies' intergenerational impact. Today, Newland is a principal attorney at Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville, PC, where he represents Tribal governments, Tribal business entities, and inter-Tribal organizations on a broad range of legal and policy matters. Newland received a JD from Michigan State University (MSU) College of Law, where he also earned an Indian Law Certificate, and a BA from James Madison College at MSU. He is a recipient of the National American Indian Court Judges Association's Judicial Excellence Award (2024) and the Clean Water Action Great Lakes Protectors Award (2020). 

Through its Native Environmental Sovereignty Project, the ENR Center established the Rennard Strickland Lecture series in 2006 to honor the legacy of former Oregon Law Professor and Dean Rennard Strickland, who retired that year and passed in 2021. An Osage citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Strickland contributed mightily to the field of Indian Law, the practice of legal education, and Oregon Law's ENR and Indian Law programs throughout his lifetime. In keeping with his assertion that "[i]f there is to be a post-Columbian future—a future for any of us—it will be an Indian future..." (Tonto's Revenge, 1997), the Rennard Strickland Lecture series has a thematic focus on Indigenous environmental-legal leadership and Tribal sovereignty in the twenty-first century. 

The 20th Annual Rennard Strickland Lecture is co-sponsored by the UO Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies, Oregon Law's Native American Law Students Association, and the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. 

Oregon CLE credit pending. 

History and Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies invites our graduate students, faculty, and staff to a welcome back barbecue!

Spend an evening with History and Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies. Talk with old friends, meet new colleagues, and enjoy fine food and drinks.

All HIST and IRES graduate students, faculty, and staff are invited. Families warmly welcomed.

The Latinx Studies Program invites you to our fall reception with friends and colleagues. Join us for paletas and aguas frescas from Peek-A-Boo Delight!

Enjoy an afternoon of great conversation, community, and delicious frozen treats as we kick off the new academic year!

Free and open to all Latinx studies minors and students interested in the minor.

Join the University of Oregon for the HSI Symposium: Building a Latinx-Thriving University, a two-day gathering bringing together students, faculty, staff, educators, community partners, and higher education leaders to explore how UO can strengthen support, deepen belonging, and expand opportunities for its growing Latiné student community.

As UO’s Latiné student population continues to grow, the symposium provides an opportunity to build on the programs, scholarship, student leadership, cultural initiatives, and community partnerships already shaping the university while considering what comes next. Together, participants will explore how UO can continue developing as a Latinx-thriving university and advance its work toward becoming a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI).

Thursday, October 22 will feature a keynote address, panels, and breakout sessions focused on topics including student success, research, institutional culture, and the evolving HSI landscape.

Friday, October 23 will move from conversation to collaboration through facilitated planning and work sessions. Participants will have opportunities to share their experiences, identify priorities, and contribute ideas that can help inform UO’s continued HSI work.

Students, prospective students and families, faculty, staff, educators, community organizations, alumni, and higher education partners are encouraged to participate. Attend one or both days, or all or part of either day.

🔗 Learn more and register: http://eepurl.com/6TEj6XENy3

Additional information about speakers, sessions, and the full symposium schedule will be shared in the coming weeks.

Join the University of Oregon for the HSI Symposium: Building a Latinx-Thriving University, a two-day gathering bringing together students, faculty, staff, educators, community partners, and higher education leaders to explore how UO can strengthen support, deepen belonging, and expand opportunities for its growing Latiné student community.

As UO’s Latiné student population continues to grow, the symposium provides an opportunity to build on the programs, scholarship, student leadership, cultural initiatives, and community partnerships already shaping the university while considering what comes next. Together, participants will explore how UO can continue developing as a Latinx-thriving university and advance its work toward becoming a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI).

Thursday, October 22 will feature a keynote address, panels, and breakout sessions focused on topics including student success, research, institutional culture, and the evolving HSI landscape.

Friday, October 23 will move from conversation to collaboration through facilitated planning and work sessions. Participants will have opportunities to share their experiences, identify priorities, and contribute ideas that can help inform UO’s continued HSI work.

Students, prospective students and families, faculty, staff, educators, community organizations, alumni, and higher education partners are encouraged to participate. Attend one or both days, or all or part of either day.

🔗 Learn more and register: http://eepurl.com/6TEj6XENy3

Additional information about speakers, sessions, and the full symposium schedule will be shared in the coming weeks.