Come hear from SOAN Seniors as the present their thesis research - learn something new, hear about some amazing research, and enjoy free food! We’ll have two nights of presentations, so don’t miss out.

Come hear from SOAN Seniors as the present their thesis research - learn something new, hear about some amazing research, and enjoy free food! We’ll have two nights of presentations, so don’t miss out.

All students interested in majoring in or learning about SOAN are welcome to join us for the upcoming SOAN Meet Your Major event (Sweets with SOAN)! 

Join us for the FA23 SOAN Colloquium - More than the Second Amendment: Liberal Gun Culture, Citizenship, and Emancipatory Democracy in the United States presented by Dr. Jennifer Hubbert!

Join us for day two of the Sociology and Anthropology department’s Senior Thesis Presentations!

Join us for day one of the Sociology and Anthropology department’s Senior Thesis Presentations!

When it comes to choosing our careers, we are often told to “do what you love” and expected to be passionate about our jobs. However, most discussions of “work passion” focus on middle-class professionals, college graduates, care workers, or creative workers. Join Sidra Kamran in exploring what it means to profess love or passion for a stigmatized working-class job and why workers use contradictory narratives to explain their occupational choices.

Date: February 8th
Doors will open at 6:30pm for dinner
Speaker from 7pm- 8pm

All interested and prospective SOAN students are invited to join the Sociology and Anthropology department for a Meet Your Major event!

Friday, November 13
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations

“The Gift that Pays? Balancing Morals and Money in Paid Plasma Donation”

The Shared City: Negotiations over the Regulation of Short-term Rental Properties in Portland, OR presented by Sarah Warren, Associate Professor of Sociology

Join Jonathan Jennings, Executive Director of Health in Harmony, as he shares his experience and offers advice for students interested in pursuing careers in International NGOs.

“Making ‘Model Citizens’: Junior Police, Youth, and Social Control in School” by Mai Thai, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Indiana University-Bloomington

The symposium will highlight student work that focuses on the intersection of media, sports, and public culture.

Underground Publishing Networks and Autonomous Politics in Latin America, 

by Magalí Rabasa, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of World Languages & Literatures at Lewis & Clark College

A public discussion with two of Portland’s leading experts on space, race and equality to learn how they use design to overturn patterns of public inaccessibility and inspire full participation.

Ray Warren Symposium Keynote speakers: Cultural practitioner Sulu’ape Keone Nunes and multimedia artist Wendy Red Star 

Presentation & Workshop with Dr. Michelle Stewart

 Yes, And: Reconfiguring (Dis)Ability

Through Improv and Applied Anthropology

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 11

11:30-12:30

JR HOWARD 132

This presentation focuses on a project that brings together the worlds of applied anthropology and community-based arts to investigate the lived experiences of those with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)—a lifelong disability that is both stigmatized and racialised. This interdisciplinary project draws from critical studies in improvisation as well as Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies which allows for different frames through which to listen for, and attune to, intersecting forms of marginalizations. The project places the lived experience at the centre of the research which is methodologically and politically necessary if one is to be engaged in disability studies as well as an accomplice in dismantling ableist ideologies, policies and literatures associated to those with FASD. Drawing on the conceptual possibility of what George Lipsitz calls “arts-based community making,” the presentation will analyze how Participatory Action Research methods can illuminate the contingency of research findings. In so doing, the method helps to reveal and rupture the structural barriers that marginalize and isolate individuals while concurrently allowing for the possibility of developing collaborations to push back against marginalization that fosters community making. Everyone is welcome and the presentation will include a hands-on workshop that demonstrates improv in action.

MICHELLE STEWART is Associate Professor of Justice Studies  at the University of Regina (Saskatchewan) where she is also Director of the Community Research Unit. She is the Strategic Research Lead of the Canada Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Research Network.

Presented by Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Sociology/Anthropology

For more information, contact Magalí Rabasa: mrabasa@lclark.edu

This forum will provide a space for discussing how we can accomplish the goal of prioritizing diversity in General Education.

 • What do we mean by diversity?

• How can we guarantee that all students graduating from L&C grapple with issues of      cultural difference and social power?

• Should exploring diversity be one of the goals of a core class like E & D?

The Pamplin Society of Fellows is proud to announce the finalists for the
2016 Teacher of the Year Award: Sepideh Bajracharya, Kimberly Brodkin, Casey Jones, Joel Martinez, Tamily Weissman-Unni

April 14               Claire Robison, Visiting Assistant Professor, Religious Studies:  

”Fashioning an Indian National Identity through Performance: Public Festivals and the Use of Media in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Mumbai”