2024–25 “Reimagine” series speakers are selected

The Oregon Humanities Center’s 2024–25 “Reimagine” speakers series will highlight the original human superpower: our mind’s capacity to transform the world around us via imaginative thought. Join us for these engaging talks in winter and spring terms. 

Patty Krawec will deliver the 2024-25 Clark Lecture on Tuesday, February 4, 2025. Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to Lac Seul First Nation in Canada. Krawec is the author of Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future (2022)and a second book about the ways that subaltern writing and storytelling can help us reimagine that future, forthcoming in fall 2025.

 

 

Candace Bond-Theriault will give the 2024-25 O’Fallon Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. Bond-Theriault is a Black queer feminist lawyer, professor, writer, mother, and social justice advocate. She is an adjunct professor of Sociology and Criminology at Howard University, associate director for Movement Building at Dēmos, a think tank for the Racial Justice Movement, and the author of Queering Reproductive Justice: an Invitation (2024). 

 

 

Allison Pugh, 2024-25 Cressman Lecture, will speak on Thursday, April 17, 2025. Pugh is a professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, and the 2024–25 Vice President of the American Sociological Association. She writes about how people forge connections and find meaning and dignity at work and at home. Her book, The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (2024), explores the human connections that underlie our work, arguing that what people do for each other in these settings is valuable and worth preserving.

 

 

Deepa Iyer will give the 2024-25 Lorwin Lecture on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. Iyer is the Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Building Movement Project; and author of We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future (2015) and Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection (2022). Her political and community homes include Asian American, South Asian, Muslim, and Arab ecosystems where she spent fifteen years in policy advocacy and coalition building in the wake of the September 11th attacks and ensuing backlash.

 

 

All of these talks will take place at 4 p.m. in the Knight Library Browsing Room and will be livestreamed. Please register at ohc.uoregon.edu