Apr 9, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Justin Driver, the Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, discusses his book The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind. He talks about how the law and courts shape public education...
Apr 4, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Philip Scher, professor of Anthropology and Folklore and Public Culture, organized the exhibition “Visual Clave: The Expression of the Latino/a Experience through Album Cover Art, 1940-1990” at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Scher discusses the social...
Mar 25, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Journalist Alisa Roth is author of Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness. She discusses the mental healthcare crisis in the U.S. criminal justice system. Roth gave a talk titled “America’s Hidden Mental Health Crisis” on March...
Mar 13, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
José M. Cortez, assistant professor of English at the University of Oregon, discusses his approach to the teaching of writing and rhetoric to students from diverse backgrounds. He talks about the importance of creating a scholarly community and wrapping students into...
Mar 6, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Cheryl Harris, the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the UCLA School of Law, discusses how she came to the law and the argument she presents in her influential Harvard Law Review article “Whiteness as...
Feb 19, 2019 | Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today
Writer Karen Thompson Walker, assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of Oregon, is author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Age of Miracles and most recently The Dreamers, which was published in January 2019. Thompson Walker reads from The...
