5:00–6:30 p.m.
What is exciting about Pacific/Asian/American studies right now? How it may grow in the future on UO’s campus? What work is still to be done? Join us for a panel discussion with leading scholars in Pacific Islander and Asian American studies erin Khuê Ninh, Keith Camacho and Kēhaulani Vaughn who will discuss the present and future of the field as they see it. The talk will explore current issues and critical scholarship occurring in Pacific, Native Hawaiian, and Asian American studies. This panel is organized by the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and is free and open to the public.
Dr. erin Khuê Ninh, UC Santa Barbara | Chair Asian American Studies. Her research centers on the model minority not as myth, but as racialization and identity. Throughlines in her writing and teaching are the subtleties of power, harm, and subject formation, whether in the contexts of terror and war, of family and immigration, or of gendering and rape culture.
Dr. Keith Camacho, UCLA | Chair Asian American Studies. Professor Camacho received his training in the anthropology, history, and literature of the Pacific Islands at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His research has mainly focused on Chamorro cultural and historical politics, as well as American and Japanese colonialisms and militarisms. Presently, Professor Camacho is studying Samoan youth violence and justice in Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States.
Dr. Kēhaulani Vaughn, UC, Riverside | Associate Professor of Indigenous Feminisms. Kēhaulani Vaughn’s (Kanaka Maoli) book manuscript, Trans Indigeneity: The Politics of California Indian and Native Hawaiian Relations, is about the trans-Indigenous recognitions between Native Hawaiians living in the U.S. and California Indian tribes. As a scholar-practitioner, her teaching and research interests are in Pacific Island Studies, Indigenous epistemologies, higher education, and decolonial practices and pedagogies.
noon
A Morse Bookmarks event featuring Neil O'Brian, assistant professor of political science at UO.
In the late twentieth century, gay rights, immigration, gun control, and abortion debates all burst onto the political scene, scrambling the parties and polarizing the electorate. Neil A. O’Brian traces the origins of today’s political divide on these issues to the 1960s when Democrats and Republicans split over civil rights. It was this partisan polarization over race, he argues, that subsequently shaped partisan fault lines on other culture war issues that persist to this day.
Neil O’Brian is an academic expert in U.S. politics with focus on public opinion, political parties and polarization. In May 2024, he was named a 2024 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
4:00–5:30 p.m.
Collaborative research is a relatively niche but growing component of archaeological practice. While academic institutions and professional societies highlight the importance of Indigenous, collaborative, and decolonizing research strategies, opportunities to train students in these techniques are still generally lacking in the field. In this talk, Gabriel Sanchez shares insights from a collaborative field school bringing together students and Tribal members from the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and their Land Trust. Informed by cultural perspectives and priorities, students and Tribal members learned archaeological field methods developed by the Tribe and archaeologists over the last decade to study and preserve Indigenous cultural heritage. In this talk, Sanchez considers how Indigenous-led efforts in central coastal California archaeology, which focuses on site stewardship, access, research, and education, can be beneficial components in field schools.
5:15–6:45 p.m.
Featuring Sara Sadhwani, assistant professor of politics at Pomona College. Sadhwani specializes in Asian American and Latino voting behavior, elections, interest groups and representation. Her analysis of politics and elections has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, Politico, The Guardian, Vox, The Los Angeles Times, NBC News, The HuffPost and many more. In a voting rights case before the California Supreme Court, she coauthored an amicus brief that summarizes empirical research on the benefits of maximizing the voting strength of historically excluded communities.
5:30–7:00 p.m.
Election takeaways and discussion of what comes next with a panel of election experts featuring Rep. Peter DeFazio and University of Oregon professors Alison Gash, Chandler James, Regina Lawrence, Neil O’Brian and Daniel Tichenor. Sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics.
Sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics.
6:30–8:00 p.m.
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies announces a book talk by Deborah Miranda, author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir. Learn about California Indian history, past and present. She will share what a hybrid memoir is and how she came to write the book in that form rather than a straight narrative. The operating principles of the book are decolonization and survivance–both key concepts for all US writers as we reckon with history and loss in these pandemic times. The book’s organizational principle is collage–a literary strategy that has gained greater resonance with this decade’s experiences of isolation and fragmentation.
For more information and to register, please visit the River Road Park and Recreation District website.
4:00 p.m.
Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center
Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory and residing in Niagara Falls. She has served on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre and co hosted the Medicine for the Resistance podcast.
She is a founding director of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation which challenges settlers to pay their rent for living on Indigenous land and then 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.
With a background in social work, Patty focused on supporting victims of sexual and gendered violence as well as child abuse. She is a strong believer in the power of collective organizing, and was an active union member throughout her career as a social worker.
Her current work and writing focuses on how Anishinaabe belonging and thought can inform faith and social justice practices and has been published in Sojourners, Rampant Magazine, Midnight Sun, Yellowhead Institute, Indiginews, Religion News Service, and Broadview. Her first book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future was published in 2022 by Broadleaf Books. Her second book about the ways that subaltern writing and storytelling can help us reimagine that future will be published in the fall of 2025.
4:00 p.m.
Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center
Candace Bond-Theriault, JD, LLM (she/her/hers) is a Black queer feminist lawyer, professor, writer, mother, and social justice advocate working at the intersections of law, policy, reproductive health rights, racial justice, LGBTQIA+ liberation, economic justice, and democracy reform. She is Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Howard University, and Associate Director for Movement Building at Dēmos: a think tank for the Racial Justice Movement. Bond-Theriault sits on the SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW! Board of Directors, the ReproAction Advisory Council, and is an abortion and contraception context expert for Our Bodies Ourselves Today (Suffolk University). Her writing has been published in The Nation, SELF magazine, Ms. Magazine, Colorlines, the Root, Blavity, Rewire, the Advocate, the Grio, and the Huffington Post. She is the author of Queering Reproductive Justice: an Invitation (Stanford University Press).
11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Want to learn more about graduate school or different types of part-time/full-time jobs, internships, volunteer opportunities, and careers in the health professions? The Health Grad & Career Expo is your chance to get curious about your present and future in healthcare! This expo is a mix of graduate schools, health-related businesses, non-profits, and government agencies excited to share more with you about their organization/program and early career talent and educational opportunities. Great for students exploring career paths as well as students ready to start applying for the year ahead.
Register on Handshake today to learn about all the schools and organizations coming, positions of interest, and get tips and advice for how to make the most of the expo.
For more information, visit the Unviersity Career Center in Tykeson-Garden Level to learn more about how the UCC supports students applying to grad school through career coaching and document reviews! Also check out our NEW online career exploration resources around Health & Scientific Discovery!
4:00 p.m.
Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center
Deepa Iyer is this year's Lorwin Lecturer. Over the course of two decades supporting social movements, Deepa Iyer has played many roles: weaver, frontline responder, storyteller, and guide. Currently, she is the Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at Building Movement Project where she builds projects, resources, and narratives around transformative solidarity practices. Iyer’s primary areas of expertise include post September 11th policies, civil rights, and Asian American/South Asian histories of community building. She has previously held positions at Race Forward, South Asian Americans Leading Together, the US Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, and the Asian American Justice Center.
She is the author of two books, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future (The New Press 2015) about post 9/11 America, and Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection (The Thick Press, 2022) about the social change ecosystem framework that she developed. She also hosts a podcast called Solidarity Is This featuring storytellers, disrupters, and builders around the world who are experimenting with solidarity during a time of polarization.
Iyer has received fellowships from Open Society Foundations and the Social Change Initiative, and in 2019, she received an honorary doctoral degree from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She serves on the Advisory Council of the Emergent Fund, which resources grassroots organizing and power building in communities of color.
An immigrant who moved to Kentucky from India when she was twelve, Iyer graduated from the University of Notre Dame Law School and Vanderbilt University. More information about Iyer’s work is at www.socialchangemap.com and www.buildingmovement.org.