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Julie Weise, History, and 2023–24 Faculty Research Fellow. The world’s first collective experiment with government-managed temporary labor migration began during World War I and grew dramatically after World War II, encouraging millions of people to cross international borders. The migration programs reshaped rural livelihoods, cemented industrialized countries’ dependence on migrant labor, and had transformative demographic […]
Ashley Cordes, English and Environmental Studies, and 2023–24 Faculty Research Fellow. There is an urgent need to deepen the conversation about what it means to reject complicity with settler colonial and white supremacist research practices in digital and environmental humanities subfields. My project focuses on the responsible creation of Indigenous methods and the extension of […]
LAND/TRUST (2022) is drawn from a body of material collected for the Amah Mutsun Land Trust and Tribal Band archives starting in the summer of 2021 and continuing to the present. The film documents the effort to restore the coastal prairie in the Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve at Año Nuevo State Park, which encompasses the former […]
One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo, drink champagne, and talk about their work. Calling themselves “The Sisterhood,” the group—which also came to include Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Margo Jefferson, and others—would get together once […]
Claudio Fogu, French and Italian Studies, UC-Santa Barbara. Sponsor: Romance Languages and Literatures, dgarvin@uoregon.edu Read the newsletter story.
“A Micro-History of World Cinema: The Global Routes of the Lumière Brothers” Michael Allan, Comparative Literature and 2023–24 OHC Ernest G. Moll Research Fellow in Literary Studies. Between 1896–1903, the Lumière Brothers commissioned camera operators to traverse the globe with their newly invented cinematograph. My project tracks the voyage of one of these operators, Alexandre […]
Stephanie Malia Hom, Transnational Italian Studies, UC-Santa Barbara. Sponsor: Romance Languages and Literatures, dgarvin@uoregon.edu Read the newsletter story
This 46-minute film follows anti-nuclear activists, tribal leaders, scientists and attorneys as they draw lessons from the decades-long campaign to shut down the Trojan Nuclear Power plant in Oregon and extend those lessons into a new struggle to stop small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) from being built in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere in the […]
Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country (2022) Steven Beda, History and 2020–21 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. Often cast as villains in the Northwest’s environmental battles, timber workers in fact have a connection to the forest that goes far beyond jobs and economic issues. Steven C. Beda […]
“Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón” Sandy Rodriguez, artist. livestream: youtube.com/@ISMediaServicesUO Sponsor: History of Art and Architecture, design.uoregon.edu/arthistory Read the newsletter story
