Past Events

March 19, 2024

Everybody Reads Book Discussion

Join us to discuss Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin, this year’s Everybody Reads selection from Multnomah County Library.

Tuesday, March 19 at 3:30 in Watzek Library Classroom 245.  Refreshments will be served! RSVP requested. 

March 13, 2024

Call for Papers: 2024 Dorothy Berkson Writing Award in Gender Studies

Submissions due by 5pm, Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Submission may be from any field of study so long as gender is central to the work.

March 12, 2024

Information Session for Fall 2024 Inside-Out Prison-Exchange class, English 201: Poetry 1 with Professor Jerry Harp

Jerry Harp and Reiko Hillyer are holding an information session for students and faculty interested in learning about Jerry’s Fall 2024 Inside-Out Prison-Exchange Program class, English 201: Poetry 1, and how to apply. 

March 11, 2024

“Edges of Noir”: Michael Mirabile in Conversation with Jerry Harp

Please join Michael Mirabile as he discusses his latest book, “Edges of Noir: Extreme Filmmaking in the 1960s” with Jerry Harp. 

Michael Mirabile is Assistant Professor with Term in the English department, specializing in Radical Film, Films Adapting Fictions, American Crime and Suspense Fiction, and Postmodernist and Contemporary American Fiction.

March 7, 2024

2024 Gender Studies Symposium–Day 2

Day 2 of the 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium!

This year’s symposium focuses on the ways in which digital technology, internet platforms, and online spaces have shaped and been shaped by understandings and expressions of gender and sexuality.

Join us for three days of keynote presentations, multidisciplinary panels, workshops, readings, and other events, as well as an art exhibition. View the complete event schedule for details. 

Snapshot of Adelaide Beeman White's prize-winning book collection.
February 29, 2024

Celebrate winners of the book collecting contest!

Join us today at 3 p.m. in the library atrium for tea and coffee in honor of three students who have won this year’s Himes & Duniway Society Book Collecting Prize.

February 27, 2024

Near White/Near Black: Growing Up on the Color Line

Join the Ethnic Studies program in welcoming Professor Matt Guterl (Brown University) to talk about his memoir, Skinfolk, a haunting, poignant story of growing up in a multiracial family.

February 20, 2024

An Evening with Claire Vaye Watkins - Spring 2024 Visiting Writers Series

LC English welcomes Claire Vaye Watkins as the fourth of four authors in our 2023-2024 Visiting Writers Series.

February 5, 2024

An Evening with Ama Codjoe - Spring 2024 Visiting Writers Series

LC English welcomes Ama Codjoe, the third of four authors in our 2023-2024 Visiting Writers Series.

December 5, 2023

Fiction Capstone Reading, Fall 2023

Please join us on Tuesday, December 5th at 6pm for the ENG 400 Fiction Capstone Reading and help us celebrate the accomplishments of these student writers! Manor House, Armstrong Lounge.

November 3, 2023

Gender Studies Symposium 2024: Call for Proposals Deadline is Nov. 3

We invite submissions for panel discussions, individual papers, interactive workshops, and artistic productions, especially those focused on gender and sexuality in relation to digital technologies.

Please review the Call for Proposals for complete guidelines.

November 2, 2023

An Evening With Charif Shanahan - Fall 2023 Visiting Writers Series

LC English welcomes Charif Shanahan as the second of four authors in our 2023-2024 Visiting Writers Series.

October 26, 2023

BANNED: A Teach-In About the Attack on Ethnic Studies and Gender Studies

An opportunity for students to have conversation with L&C faculty in Ethnic Studies and Gender Studies.

October 24, 2023

2023 Dixon Awards Presentation: Kit Graf

Please join us for 2023 Dixon Award winner Kit Graf’s presentation, “W.B. Yeats as Father Figure.”

Through examination of papers housed at the National Library in Dublin, Kit Graf explores a fuller picture of Yeats as a father and how his work was shaped by his domestic space and the raising of his two children.

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