2:00–5:00 p.m.
The Department of Romance Languages will host three exciting guest speakers as part of a Symposium on Gender, Race, and Empire. All sessions will be in the Knight Library Dream Lab (Knight 121).
May 1, 2:00
Prof. Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel (French, Emory University): "Textured Archives: An Afrofeminist Creative Praxis of Hair, History, and Intimate Methodologies"
May 1, 3:30
Prof. Nicholas Jones (Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University): "Cervantine Blackness: A Breakup with Academia's Languages for a Revolutionary Situation"
May 2, 12:00
Prof. Estefanía Bournot (Latin America Studies, Harvard University and the Austrian Academy of Sciences): "The Specular Atlantic: South-South Readings and Diasporic (Be)Longings"
4:00–5:30 p.m.
Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He also chairs the Hoover Institution Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region and is the principal investigator of the Global Digital Policy Incubator, part of Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center. Diamond has served as a consultant to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and advised and lectured to the World Bank, the United Nations, the State Department, and other agencies dealing with governance and development. His books include In Search of Democracy (2016), and The Spirit of Democracy (2008). He has edited or coedited some fifty books on democratic development around the world.
Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a faculty member of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. He is also director of Stanford's Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy. Fukuyama has written widely on issues in development and international politics. His 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man, has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His latest book, Liberalism and Its Discontents, was published in May 2022.
This event is sponsored by the School of Global Studies and Languages, Global Studies Institute in the Division of Global Engagement, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, and the Department of Political Science.
Free and open to the public.
4:00–5:00 p.m.
The challenges of climate change and inequality are caught in a dynamic of dual acceleration. That is, racial, socioeconomic, and global inequality help drive climate change. In turn, climate change helps drive racial, socioeconomic, and global inequality. Local leaders and activists are critical actors in breaking this momentum. When they invest in rebuilding democracy and social networks from below, they can help adapt communities to climate change and recover from natural disasters. Those same measures also help protect vulnerable people from the worst harms of poverty, social isolation, and deteriorated public services. Using examples of place-based struggles to empower and organize poor communities, this talk will focus on local democracy as one solution to the problem of accelerating climate change and inequality.
Michelle Wilde Anderson is a professor of local government law, poverty, environmental justice, and state/local climate law at Stanford Law School and the Stanford School of Sustainability. Her book The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America (published by Simon & Schuster) was awarded the 2023 Zócalo Public Square Book Prize for Nonfiction. Her other writing has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and dozens of other publications. The American Law Institute (ALI) awarded her their Early Career Scholars Medal in 2019. Anderson is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Housing Law Project and a board member for the East Bay Community Law Center in Oakland. She lives with her family in San Francisco.
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The Department of Romance Languages will host three exciting guest speakers as part of a Symposium on Gender, Race, and Empire. All sessions will be in the Knight Library Dream Lab (Knight 121).
May 1, 2:00
Prof. Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel (French, Emory University): "Textured Archives: An Afrofeminist Creative Praxis of Hair, History, and Intimate Methodologies"
May 1, 3:30
Prof. Nicholas Jones (Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University): "Cervantine Blackness: A Breakup with Academia's Languages for a Revolutionary Situation"
May 2, 12:00
Prof. Estefanía Bournot (Latin America Studies, Harvard University and the Austrian Academy of Sciences): "The Specular Atlantic: South-South Readings and Diasporic (Be)Longings"
3:00 p.m.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Organic/Inorganic/Materials Seminar KLEMM Lecture Series
Professor Malika Jeffries-EL, Boston University Hosted by Mike Haley
Design and synthesis of organic electronic materials
The past two decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of consumer electronics in use. Previously, most households had a landline phone, one or two televisions, and the occasional desktop computer. These days, most people own numerous electronic devices, leading to a heightened demand for the semiconducting materials that drive this technology and the energy needed to power them. Consequently, there has been considerable interest in developing organic semiconductors, as many inorganic materials used in these devices are in limited supply. Organic semiconductors consist of either polymers or small molecules with extended pi-conjugation. These materials possess a range of exceptional electronic, optical, and thermal properties, making them well-suited for applications such as transistors, solar cells, and light-emitting diodes. However, several challenges must be addressed before practical products can be developed. Our group focuses on the design and synthesis of new organic semiconductors based on low-cost and/or easily prepared starting materials. Because the properties of organic semiconductors can be readily modified through chemical synthesis, we have shifted our focus towards the design and synthesis of novel aromatic building blocks. We have developed several new materials, including wide-band gap materials for use in organic light-emitting diodes and narrow-band gap materials for use in photovoltaic cells. Our recent work on these topics will be presented.
This lecture series recognizes outstanding research in organic chemistry or related fields. During his 50-year career at the UO, Leroy H. Klemm (1919-2003) made pioneering discoveries in organic chemistry.
11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
The Women in Computer Science Club is excited to announce the 2025 edition of our annual Tech Together event, Unconventional Paths to Tech! The event will be held on Sunday, May 4, from 11am-2pm in the EMU Crater Lake Rooms. There will be a brunch, raffle, and tech panel by Melody Riley-Ralphs and Tracy Massey, as well as keynote by Oregon alumna Kim Gast. Kim Gast is an Entrepreneur and Small Business-Owner, Tech Leader & Consultant for public sector, healthcare, & education industries, Poet, and Steward of professional women. Unconventional Paths to Tech means finding a place in the technology world through creative and unique opportunities and skills. We hope you can make it to Tech Together this year to learn more!
Register for the Unconventional Paths to Tech event
Open to all interested students!
10:00 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!
4:00–5:30 p.m.
Dr. Hamblin is a leading environmental historian and expert on the international dimensions of science, technology, and the environment, especially related to nuclear issues, ecology, oceans, and climate. His 2021 book The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology won the Oregon Book Award in general nonfiction. He also recently co-edited Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure, which came out of his National Science Foundation funded Downwinders Project about Hanford and other nuclear sites. He will speak about the long history of using animals, humans, and computer simulations to model harm from radiation effects.
This is the third event in the series Anti-Nuclear Research and Activism in the US and Japan. For more information contact: Rachel DiNitto rdinitto@uoregon.edu
Sponsored by College of Arts & Sciences, School of Global Studies & Languages, and Oregon Humanities Center
4:00–5:30 p.m.
Dr. Rintaro Ono will discuss research he has conducted on islands in Indonesia, Melanesia, and Remote Oceania. In particular, he addresses recent work in caves on Sulawesi in Indonesia that were occupied by humans more than 42,000 years ago and how early subsistence strategies and inter-island networks developed from the Pleistocene through the Neolithic and Metal ages. These data are then coupled with ethnoarchaeological research on the Sama-Bajau people of northern Borneo to examine how basic fishing strategies were employed by Austronesian peoples across islands throughout the Indo-Pacific.
The event is sponsored by Asian Studies Program, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of History and Museum of Natural and Cultural History.
3:00–4:30 p.m.
Join us for the annual Wayne Morse Chair Address featuring Danielle Allen, 2024-25 Wayne Morse Chair. Allen is a political theorist, professor at Harvard University and an advocate for democracy. Her acclaimed book, Our Declaration, offers a profound analysis of American democratic principles. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Allen contributed crucial insights on equitable policy responses and effective governance. Allen received the Kluge Prize, which recognizes work in disciplines not covered by the Nobel Prizes, in 2020. In 2022, she ran for Governor of Massachusetts, emphasizing the need for systemic reform and inclusivity in state government. She writes a column on constitutional democracy for the Washington Post.
This event is free and open to the public. Join us in person or watch the livestream.
Sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics as part of its 2023-25 theme, Defending Democracy. Cosponsored by the UO Office of the President.