News and Events
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Family History as American History
Valerie White, L&C’s ombudsperson, shares her family’s history as Black abolitionists in an exhibit at Liberty Bell Center in Philadelphia and in an upcoming book.
Now Hiring for Summer: Student Mentors and More!
With support from the Mellon Foundation, the Center for Community and Global Health is hiring this Summer. Apply to be a College Success Mentor for high school students, or support nonprofit community partners Inside-Out Prison Exchange or Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative.
Cry of Freedom: New Inside-Out Prison Exchange Course
Prof. Molly Robinson will be teaching a new course this Fall at Columbia River Correctional Institution as part of the Lewis & Clark College Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. All interested students should apply!Festival of Scholars and Artists Celebrates Student Achievement
Lewis & Clark’s full-day celebration of student scholarship and creativity returned to its in-person format on April 8.An Interdisciplinary Look at the Russia-Ukraine Crisis
A panel of Lewis & Clark professors recently gathered to discuss the historical, political, and cultural underpinnings of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Elliott Young Op/Ed on Involuntary Incarceration in Washington Post
Elliott Young has a new Op/Ed in The Washington Post entitled, “Locking up the mentally ill has a long history: The prospect of removing people from communities to be put in institutions has been a project of social control.”
Elliott Young is professor of history at Lewis & Clark College and the author of “Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System.”Fulbright Winners to Circle the Globe as Researchers and Teachers
As recipients of prestigious Fulbright awards, four members of the L&C community will work abroad next year: Meredith Stinger BA ’19 (India), Mila Wolpert BA ’19 (France), Amelia Madarang BA ’22 (Taiwan), and Alex Webb BA ’22 (Colombia).
From Stumptown to Portlandia: Students Explore Portland’s History
Reiko Hillyer, associate professor of history, teaches a course about Portland’s multifaceted history, which encourages students to develop a deeper sense of place.The History of Incarceration Turned Inside-Out
In late April, 15 students from Lewis & Clark and 15 students from the Columbia River Correctional Institution performed an original theatre piece as the culmination of their Inside-Out history course, Crime and Punishment in the United States.
Meet the 2023 Nielson Social Change Innovation Grant Recipients
Two exceptional student innovators were each awarded 5K for project proposals that seek to create positive social change within their communities. Read about their projects below that will be implemented between June-August 2023.
Literary Review 50th Anniversary: Call for submissions through February 14th, 2023
The LC Literary Review will publish its 50th Anniversary Issue this coming spring! The editorial team is reading submissions now through February 14th, 2023 and will notify writers and artists which pieces they select soon afterwards.Poetry, prose, and visual art submissions are welcome and encouraged from all LC students, faculty, staff, and alumni in the greater LC community.Darrius Wallace Portrayal of Frederick Douglass
Show/Performance title: The Starry Road To FreedomPrécis: This show takes us on the journey of what it truly means to be free. From Frederick Douglass as a young boy who is heavily influenced by his grandmother to self realization through the power of the written and spoken word we witness Douglass dramatic discovery of freedom through 7 different characters played by Phil Darius Wallace. He creatively uses song, poetry, monologue and speeches to bring the Frederick Douglass Story to life.
This show is to be held in Evans Auditorium Monday, April 11th from 4:30pm-5:45pm.Seniors: Submit Fiction to L&C Fiction Award by April 6th
The 2022 Lewis & Clark Fiction Award is open to all graduating seniors currently enrolled full-time at Lewis & Clark College. The winning writer is awarded a cash prize of $100 and the piece can be previously published. - EVENTS
Past Events
April 18, 2023New date and time: “Coin Diving, Colonialism, and Tourism in the Caribbean, 1890-1940” with Stan Fonseca
Between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth century, the ongoing crises of the late-colonial Caribbean mingled with an emerging trend: white American and European tourists who flocked in growing numbers to the tropics in search of pleasure, leisure, and adventure. As these travelers arrived in port in the era before commercial flight, they encountered a ubiquitous scene: boys and young men in small rowboats, who would surround the incoming steamship and, nude or nearly nude, dive in the tropical surf for coins tossed overboard. Images and accounts of these coin divers circulated widely in travel media, and were instrumental in constructing a tourist-friendly vision of the Caribbean seaside as exotic, picturesque, erotic, and accessible. In colonial Caribbean sources, however, coin divers were viewed not as an alluring spectacle but as a criminal threat, somewhere between beggar, truant, and sex worker. The divers themselves were working-class youth inhabiting a harbor-world on the periphery of a stratified and shifting society. They experienced firsthand the transition from Caribbean colonialism to mass tourism, and used the harbor to enact a limited autonomy and demand recognition within a system that provided few meaningful alternatives.
Analyzing the tensions between these contrasting modes of power—one that commodified and one that criminalized—we can better understand the complex dynamics in the transition from plantation colonialism to tourism neocolonialism in the Caribbean.April 16, 2023Kwibuka: Remembrance of Rwandan Genocide
Dear LC Community,Please join 2022-23 Dallaire Scholar Amani Rene Pacifique and John Mbanda ’25 for kwibuka 29th yearthis Sunday, April 16, 2023, 4:00–5:30 p.m. in Council Chamber.
To support Amani’s Trauma Center Project in Rwanda, visit this webpage.
More about Amani and his foundation in the Mossy LogApril 6, 2023“The Way of the Samurai for a Modern Japan” with Guest Speaker Sarah Thal
The Way of the Samurai (bushido) is often seen as a centuries-old traditional code of Japan’s elite warrior class. But not only did the idea of bushido only originate around 1600, but proponents also reinvented it in the 1890s, amidst rapid industrialization, electoral politics, controversies over women’s rights, and the tensions surrounding the first Sino-Japanese War. In this talk, we examine some of the reasons and ways Japanese reimagined and promoted a Way of the Samurai for their modern age.
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