Whether you’re trying to figure out plans for the summer or something more long-term, we’d like to invite you to jumpstart your career at the upcoming Job & Internship Fair hosted by the Career Center!

Join us for the Pacific Northwest premier screening of the Documentary “La Montaña”, depicting decolonization and the Zapatista movement.

Vietnamese Portland: Memory, History, Community invites you to a rough cut work-in-progress screening of Mai American, a documentary by Kevin Truong. Join us on Thursday, April 4 at 5 PM in Miller 102 for a screening of the 90-minute cut and a Q&A with Kevin.

The 2024 Lewis & Clark Fiction Award is open to all seniors currently enrolled full-time at Lewis & Clark College who are scheduled to graduate in either spring, summer, or fall of 2024. The winning writer is awarded a cash prize of $100.

The Inclusion & Multicultural Engagement (IME) office presents the Social Justice Tour. 

The Vern Rutsala Academy of American Poets Prize Contest at Lewis & Clark College is open to all seniors currently enrolled full-time at Lewis & Clark College who are scheduled to graduate in either spring, summer, or fall of 2024. The winning poet is awarded a cash prize of $100 and acknowledgement in the Academy’s newsletter. Poems can be previously published. For more information about the Academy of American Poets, visit www.poets.org.

Please join Associate Professor of History and Department Chair Reiko Hillyer discuss her latest book, A Wall is Just a Wall: The Permeability of the Prison in 20th Century America (Duke University Press, February 16, 2024)  in conversation with Jerry Harp. Influenced by her work teaching in the Inside-Out program, Hillyer traces the decline of practices that used to connect incarcerated people more regularly to the free world.  

Fashionistas: Sign up your team here for the History Department’s 10th Annual Project Runway Historical Edition! This year’s theme is…ART CRIMES! But please…no “crimes of fashion” here; we’re interested in your artful interpretation of notorious heists, pillaging, and all manner of theft. All LC students are welcome to participate and/or watch. 

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.

Please join us for a Gender Studies Symposium keynote presentation by Avery Dame-Griff, lecturer at Gonzaga University and author of The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet.

When It Was Ours: A Queer and Trans Counterhistory of the Internet

Presentation description: In this talk, Dr. Dame-Griff explores three capsule histories of queer and trans services and communities from the early years of the nascent Internet. Each of these stories represents not only a path not taken but also an alternative model for our “digital world,” one where accessibility, community investment, and shared governance are prioritized over profit. Even with rising outside pressure, their creators and users resisted the capitalistic impulse to see the web as solely a transactional medium focused on usability and hyper-optimization. By the end, we’ll consider how these stories inspire us to rethink why we connect online.

Day 1 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.

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.

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.

Los Angeles County operates the largest jail system in the United States, which incarcerates more people than any other nation on Earth. At a cost of nearly $1 billion annually, more than 20,000 people are caged every night in L.A.’s county jails and city lockups. But not every neighborhood is equally impacted by L.A.’s massive jail system. In fact, L.A.’s nearly billion-dollar jail budget is largely committed to incarcerating many people from just a few neighborhoods. In some communities, more than one-million dollars is spent annually on incarceration. These are L.A.’s Million Dollar Hoods.

Led by Prof. Kelly Lytle Hernández, the Million Dollar Hoods (MDH) research team maps and monitors how much local authorities spend on locking up residents in L.A.’s Million Dollar Hoods. Led by Black and Brown women and driven by formerly-incarcerated persons as well as residents of Million Dollar Hoods, the MDH team also provides the only full and public account of the leading causes of arrest in Los Angeles, revealing that drug possession and DUIs are the top booking charges in L.A.’s Million Dollar Hoods. Collectively, this data counters the popular misunderstanding that incarceration advances public safety by removing violent, serious offenders from the streets. In fact, local authorities are investing millions in locking up the County’s most economically vulnerable, geographically isolated, and racially marginalized populations for drug and alcohol-related crimes. This talk provides an introduction to the Million Dollar Hoods project, method, and impact.

We are excited to announce Professor Kenneth Andrews will visit Lewis & Clark College as a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar. During his visit, Dr. Andrews will give a public lecture open to all on Thursday, February 15th from 5:00-6:30 p.m. in Gregg Pavilion. His talk is entitled Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement and Black Freedom Struggle.

The Inclusion & Multicultural Engagement (IME) office presents the Social Justice Tour. 

LC students are welcome to attend the Spring 2025 Study Abroad in Cuba information session. 

Students study at the University of Havana, visit Viñales, Trinidad, and Santa Clara, and experience individual homestays.

This LC Overseas Program counts for Latin American and Latino Studies, Hispanic Studies (with appropriate language level), and Global Perspectives Gen Ed.

Faculty Leader: Professor Elliott Young (History)

Prerequisites: Spanish 202 (with at least a B) and Modern Cuban History (offered Fall 2024).

LC History and Asian Studies are honored to welcome the Atomic Bomb Survivors Hope & Healing Tour group from Nagasaki, Japan. Join us to hear from first, second, and third-generation atomic bomb survivors for first-hand accounts of the reality of the atomic bombings, their aftermath on current and future generations, tragedy caused by war, and the crucial value of peace.

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.

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

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 43rd annual Gender Studies Symposium, scheduled for March 2024.

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.

Join LC Professor of English Pauls Toutonghi when he discusses his new novel THE REFUGEE OCEAN (Simon & Schuster, October 2023) in conversation with Jon Raymond, at Powell’s City of Books. All are welcome to attend and celebrate.

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 43rd annual Gender Studies Symposium, scheduled for March 2024.

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.

A Mellon Foundation Event:

The humanities—literature and philosophy, history and languages, ethnic studies and the arts—all have something to teach us about civic engagement in the United States. This October is National Arts and Humanities Month, an opportunity to celebrate and explore the crucial role of culture and humanities in our everyday lives.

Join Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Mellon Foundation, for a discussion about what the humanities can offer us in the upcoming presidential election and the crucial role they play in driving civic engagement in American communities. Guests for this livestream include Juan Felipe Herrera, former US Poet Laureate, performer, and activist; and Carol Anderson, professor of African American Studies at Emory University.

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 43rd annual Gender Studies Symposium, scheduled for March 2024.

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.

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.

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.

The 2023 Lewis & Clark Creative Nonfiction Award The 2023 Lewis & Clark Fiction Award is open to all seniors currently enrolled full-time at Lewis & Clark College who are scheduled to graduate in either spring, summer, or fall of 2023. The winning writer is awarded a cash prize of $100.

The 2023 Lewis & Clark Fiction Award is open to all seniors currently enrolled full-time at Lewis & Clark College who are scheduled to graduate in either spring, summer, or fall of 2023. The winning writer is awarded a cash prize of $100.

The Vern Rutsala Academy of American Poets Prize Contest at Lewis & Clark College is open to all seniors currently enrolled full-time at Lewis & Clark College who are scheduled to graduate in either spring, summer, or fall of 2023. The winning poet is awarded a cash prize of $100 and acknowledgement in the Academy’s newsletter. Poems can be previously published. For more information about the Academy of American Poets, visit www.poets.org.

a new solo play by Don Wilson Glenn, directed by Damaris Webb and featuring La’Tevin Alexander

Reserve complimentary tickets today. 

Please join us for a Gender Studies Symposium keynote presentation by Dr. Dána-Ain Davis, professor of urban studies and anthropology at Queens College, and author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth.

Black Anti-bodies and the Repercussions of Obstetric Racism

Presentation abstract: This talk charts the way two Black reproducing bodies are shaped into anti-bodies. In this thought piece, I share the birthing experiences of two women and think through their medical encounters by drawing on Hortense Spillers and Emily Martin to excavate how history degrades Black bodies, shaping them into fodder for medical mistreatment. Using historical examples of how Black bodies sit on a continuum of immunity and susceptibility to illness and disease, I argue that racism produces Black anti-bodies—those bodies weighed down by Black disposability, neglect, and medical abuse.

Please join us for a Gender Studies Symposium keynote presentation by Dr. Jules Gill-Peterson, associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. 

Transition and Abortion as Vernacular Medicine 

Presentation abstract: The legal principles of the right to abortion and the right to medical transition have been framed since the 1970s as analogous to one another. Now that the overturning of Roe v. Wade has imperiled both, what other modes of relation activate ongoing histories of mutual aid and care? This talk takes up trans histories of transition and abortion as forms of vernacular medicine to explore what they can teach us in this moment about expertise, practice, and care that exceed legal or state blessings.

Day 1 of the 42nd Annual Gender Studies Symposium!

This year’s symposium explores the ways that science and medicine intersect with gender and sexuality to create knowledge, establish authority, and shape policy. 

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. 

Fashionistas and Revolutionaries: Sign up your team here for the History Department’s 9th Annual Project Runway History Edition! This year’s theme is…REVOLUTION!

Teams of 3 compete in a fashion-design competition inspired by revolutionary historical events. Students are mentored along the way by Andy Bernstein/Tim Gunn. (Will YOU be the next Christian Siriano?) Contestants then will strut their stuff before a panel of illustrious guest judges who will choose winners based fashion and historical execution. Slay!

Pizza and prizes!

How is China governed? It is a question on our minds as the rule of its president Xi Jinping challenges American hopes and stokes our fears. Is it Communist? Capitalist? Confucian? Making sense of Chinese statecraft, or of how any state is governed, requires not only political analysis but also some sense of its history. This is a fundamental historiographical challenge: how can knowledge of past practice inform, deepen, or throw into question what we think we know about later and present practice? This lecture responds to these questions through the example of one mode of Chinese governance—state-sponsored, village-based, public education in civic virtues. This effort to create ideal subjects began with 11th century Confucian bureaucrats, continued in rural education programs in the 1930s, re-emerged with Mao’s ideological campaigns of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, and has reappeared today in Xi Jinping’s mandatory political study sessions. In the end, we find that the past does not determine the present, but does shape its choices through inherited conditions (such as administering a nation the size of an empire), political culture, and, most significantly, the parts of historical memory China’s leaders choose to remember or repress.

Please join us for a screening of DOG GONE, a Netflix Original #1 film based on the book by LC English Professor Pauls Toutonghi! This feel-good film is based on a true story about one family’s quest to find their son’s lost dog, and stars Johnny Berchtold, Rob Lowe, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, and Nick Peine. We will follow the film with Q&A with the author and a celebratory reception.

Hosted by the LC English Department and the Office of the President.

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

LC English welcomes Kaui Hart Hemmings! Kaui has degrees from Colorado College, Sarah Lawrence, and she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her first novel, a New York Times bestseller, THE DESCENDANTS, has been published in twenty-two other countries and is an Oscar-winning film directed by Alexander Payne and starring George Clooney. 

Please join us for 2022 Dixon Award winner Ashleen Smith’s presentation of family photographs and other archival materials from the NYPL’s Berg Collection of English and American Literature, exploring the childhood of Virginia Woolf and her siblings, and forming connections to her Modernist masterpiece novel The Waves.

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

Calling all fashionable history enthusiasts: Come join us for the History Department’s 8th Annual Historical Project Runway! For this event, teams of 3 will compete in a fashion-design competition inspired by historical events. Students are mentored along the way by Andy Bernstein as Tim Gunn. Contestants then will strut their stuff before a panel of illustrious guest judges. First prize: gift cards to Red Light Vintage or Buffalo Exchange!

This year’s theme is… FAKE NEWS: HOAXES IN HISTORY

When and Where: Thursday, March 3rd in Miller 105. The designing and fabricating of the event begins at 5:30 (with pizza provided for contestants, if allowed!!) Even if you are not interested in competing, all are welcome to come watch the runway show at 7pm.

Interested students should contact Gabe Huerta at gabehuerta@lclark.edu

Here is an online event opportunity for students to share or listen to one page of work in progress from talented writers from everywhere. Come with a single page of work and sign up to read – or come to listen and prepare to be inspired!

Hosted by Jessica Meza-Torres. This month’s featured reader is Amy Baskin.

This information session is for students and faculty interested in learning about Reiko Hillyer’s spring 2022 Inside-Out class, History 338: Crime and Punishment in the United States, and how to apply.

When and where: Tuesday, October 19th at 3:30pm in Miller 105

Presented by the Inside-Out Prison Exchange,  a Center for Community and Global Health Community Partner, this discussion series consider the ways that justice is instrumental to healing.

What We Can Learn from the T.V. Series “Philly D.A.”

The TV series “Philly D.A” is a riveting, up-close look at Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s progressive District Attorney (who will be joining us for the event) and his recent election, with all of the requisite complexity and political drama that ensues.

We will watch the first episode together, followed by an in-depth conversation with a fascinating panel (see below) that will be focused on the possibilities and challenges of making change. This event provides a stepping-off point for us all, wherever we are located, to think about how we might reimagine justice. Though the series takes place in Philadelphia, it can be regarded as a harbinger of wider social change writ large.

A special aspect of this series is that Ted Passon, one of its co-creators and directors, took an Inside-Out course back in the early 2000s. Please mark your calendar and share this information with others.

PANELISTS:
Larry Krasner: District Attorney of Philadelphia
Mike Lee: Chief of the Diversion Unit and Government Affairs in the D.A.’s Office
LaTonya Myers: Formerly Incarcerated Activist and Co-Founder of AboveAllOdds.com
Ted Passon: Co-Creator and Director of the Philly D.A. series
Kempis (Ghani) Songster (Inside-Out Alumni) — Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project (“YASP”), Philadelphia
Trevor Walraven (Inside-Out Alumni) — Oregon Justice Resource Center

MODERATORS:
John Pace and Tyrone Werts, Inside-Out Staff

The Chemistry and History Departments have teamed with Watzek Library to host a special seminar with speaker Carolyn Cobbold, a research fellow at Cambridge University. Her most recent book, A Rainbow Palate, details the history of the use of chemical dyes as food coloring. Watzek owns an electronic copy of the book, which you can access here.

Join us at 2:10 pm for some food color trivia as a warmup (hint: review your Wizard of Oz trivia), followed by the seminar presentation beginning at 2:15 p

The faculty of the History Department will host a three-part summer discussion series, “History at Noon,” that will allow us to indulge one of the fun things about being a history student: reading primary sources! We will meet over zoom.

There is no reading required in advance: each session we’ll be looking at one or more brief historical documents particularly relevant to our time. The documents will be posted ahead of time, but you can also jump on the call and read as we go. This is a low-key opportunity for faculty, current students, recent alumni and new incoming students to connect with each other and consider some of the historical undercurrents shaping our current events. Please join us!