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Now Hiring: Summer Internship with Inside-Out
Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program’s mission is to create opportunities for people inside and outside of prison to have transformative learning experiences that emphasize collaboration and dialogue, inviting them to take leadership in addressing vital issues of social justice.
Interested in working with them? They are hiring a summer intern!
Bringing Empathy to Health Care Through Narrative Scribe Training
L&C’s Center for Community and Global Health offers Narrative Scribe Training, which emphasizes the importance of listening and storytelling to health care teams.
Art Therapy Hosts Second Open Studio for Ukrainian Community on May 1
Art therapists will be present at the event on Sunday, May 1, 2022 to facilitate the process as we set our hearts and wishes in motion by creating art inspired by Ukrainian traditions. All art supplies will be provided and interpreters will be available.
How Doctors Use stories to Cope with COVID
Narrative Medicine is a discipline in which doctors and nurses use the principles of literature and art to better understand patients’ stories and incorporate them into their practices, by asking many questions and carefully listening to their patient’s answers.
In Los Angeles, Narrative Medicine is now being taught at USC Keck School of Medicine and at the new Kaiser Permanente medical school.
Read the LA Times coverageCome see student fiber artists at work on the Exquisite Gorge project!
Come see students in Studio Art/Art History and Environmental Studies working with fiber arts on a collaborative project with artist Amanda Triplett. The studio space is Fields 206 and is open Mondays/Wednesdays, 11:30-2:30. Project encompasses collection of climate data from the Columbia Gorge.
Consent Conversations Workshops
We are inviting you to join in on discussions about various topics on consent education! We have three exciting workshops to get excited about.
Tiny House Emerges From Big Vision
L&C’s student-led Tiny House Club is building a sustainable dwelling for a Portland-area nonprofit.
CAS Campus Mask-Optional Policy Effective April 2
Mask wearing on the CAS campus will be optional beginning Saturday, April 2, in most circumstances.NSF CAREER Presentation
Come join Program Officers from the National Science Foundation and faculty colleagues from around Oregon to learn about the NSF’s Early CAREER Research Program on Monday, April 18 from 10 am until noon. Registration required. - EVENTS
Past Events
Juneteenth 2022
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Write Around Portland Community Reading
Twice a year, in May and December, Write Around Portland holds readings featuring participants in our free community writing workshops. Our readings promote respect for diverse groups and provide an opportunity to hear the powerful stories of gifted writers in our workshops. Few Portland events include so many diverse voices.
Readings are free, ADA-accessible and open to the public.
This will be our first public event since the beginning of the pandemic! Bring your friends and family to hear writers read their work from the last two years of remote and in-person workshops featured in our upcoming anthology, Gold and the Dust.
We are asking attendees to wear masks while seated and we’ll provide options for distancing. Doors open at 1:30pm.
How the Facts of the Past Shape Our Medical Future
The Oregon Bioethics and Humanities Colloquium presents
“The Negro Doctor Will be Limited to His Own Race”: How the Facts of the Past Shape Our Medical Future
By William Sturkey, PhD, MA, Associate Professor, History University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Located in the Richardson Life Sciences Building (RLSB) 3rd Floor - Conference Room 3A003A
