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

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.  

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.

Day 3 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. 

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. 

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.

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).

Join us at the concluding event of the 20th Annual Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies: Race Monologues

Each year a different group of L&C students writes an original series of personal narratives to share their feelings, experiences, and understandings of race, ethnicity, and identity.

Learn more about the history of Race Monologues and see the full list of this year’s keynote speakers, art exhibit, and event schedule.

This year’s Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies is titled Future Forward, and revolves around reimagining society to build a liberating and just future.

Join us for three days of keynote presentations, panels, workshops, and other events exploring what it means to integrate BIPOC futurism(s) into the world we create, whether fantastical or real.

Details on the symposium website.

Please join us at the 20th Annual Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies for a keynote presentation by Ingrid LaFleur: 

Preparing for Afrotopia

Presentation abstract: How do we prepare for a collective future if anti-Blackness continues to haunt us? How do we trust the future vision being created? What tools do we need to not only anticipate the future also shift its direction? These are the questions central to Ingrid LaFleur’s current research and justice-oriented experimentation. For her keynote, LaFleur will journey the nonlinear pathways to achieving decolonized futures and discuss the steps to building an afrofuture that serves humanity and their ecological home.


ASL interpretation will be provided.

Remote streaming will be available at the Zoom link posted to the symposium website. No registration is required to attend in person or stream remotely.

After the talk, please join us for a reception in the Council Chamber foyer. 

The 20th Annual Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies is titled “Future Forward” and revolves around reimagining society to build a liberating and just future.

Join us for three days of keynote presentations, panels, workshops, and other events exploring what it means to integrate BIPOC futurism(s) into the world we create, whether fantastical or real.

Please join us at the 20th Annual Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies for a keynote presentation by Aya de León, an award-winning writer, speaker, and advocate whose work is at the intersection of social identity and climate justice.

The Apocalypse Is Not Coming: Afrofuturism vs. the Climate Crisis

ASL interpretation will be provided.

Remote streaming will be available at the Zoom link posted to the symposium website. No registration is required to attend in person or stream remotely.

After the talk, please join us for a book signing in the Council Chamber foyer. The speakers’ books will be available for purchase.

The 20th Annual Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies is titled “Future Forward” and revolves around reimagining society to build a liberating and just future.

Join us for three days of keynote presentations, panels, workshops, and other events exploring what it means to integrate BIPOC futurism(s) into the world we create, whether fantastical or real.

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

Portland United Against Hate and the Coalition for Racial and Educational Justice, brought to you by Portland Bureau of Transportation are partnering to host a 3 day virtual event to provide resources and tools to those impacted by the hate our communities endure on a daily basis. The Healing Summit is the Coalition’s response to an increase in hate-fueled biased attacks directed at Black, Indigenous and people of color, LGBTQ2SAI+ communities, immigrants, migrants and refugees, and in particular our youth, that have taken place over the last year.

We are accepting submissions for the art exhibit as part of the 20th Annual Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

This year’s exhibit will include a physical installation in Watzek Library and a virtual gallery.

Submission deadline: Oct. 16 at 5 pm

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 20th annual Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies, scheduled for November 8-10, 2023. Planning meetings will take place on Oct. 11, Oct. 25, and Nov. 1 from 4:30-5:30 in Miller 414.

We are also accepting submissions for this year’s symposium art exhibit. Affiliation with Lewis & Clark is not necessary for participation in the art exhibit. Please review the Call for Art for complete guidelines.

Join Kalikasan Solidarity Organization (KSO) and Showing Up for Racial Justice Portland (SURJ PDX) for a deep dive into what it means to support Indigenous self-determination struggles all over the world.

All current CAS students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend our community meetings this semester to plan the 20th annual Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies, scheduled for November 8-10, 2023. Planning meetings will take place on Sept. 27, Oct. 11 and 25, and Nov. 1 from 4:30-5:30 in Miller 414.

We are also accepting submissions for this year’s symposium art exhibit. Affiliation with Lewis & Clark is not necessary for participation in the art exhibit. Please review the Call for Art for complete guidelines.

Join us for an event featuring Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm of Williams College.

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.

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.

Day 2 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. 

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

Join two of Portland’s most beloved gender rebels for an evening of drag, dance, and entertainment where YOU participate in the magic. This special one-of-a-kind workshop combines a lecture about Portland’s drag history and theory, a scintillating all-levels dance warm-up, and performances by Pepper and Isaiah and culminates in a group drag number where everyone gets to shine.

PLUS!  Come get fabulous with LC’s drag club, Gagged! We will be getting ready together before the drag event. Let’s do our make-up, swap boas, hang out, and build community! Sunday 5:30-7:30 Theatre Classroom.

Race Monologues

Each year a different group of L&C students writes an original series of personal narratives to share their feelings, experiences, and understandings of race, ethnicity, and identity.

Learn more about the history of Race Monologues.

Keynote presentation by Jennifer C. Nash, Jean Fox O’Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University, and author of Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality and The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography

Race Monologues

Each year a different group of L&C students writes an original series of personal narratives to share their feelings, experiences, and understandings of race, ethnicity, and identity.

Coordinated by L&C students Yashshree Raj Bisht ’21, Liza Clairagneau ’21, and Sheyla Dorantes ’21.

Registration is required by 6 pm on Friday, November 13. You must register with a Lewis & Clark email address.

Friday, November 13

4–5:30 p.m.
Performance: The People vs. _____
Conceived and written by Josie Seid

“First rule of change is controversy. You can’t get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.” — Saul Alinsky

We have returned to the place in our world where the people are pushing for change. A movement has reawakened and chosen its form as movements tend to do. Are these movements— in the forms they take—creating the change we seek? If movements are so effective, why do we seem to always find ourselves back at this place? We invite viewers to act as the jury as we take a closer look at the evolution of the movement and hear arguments for and against, in this case of: The People vs. _____.

Co-sponsored by Students for Cultural Inclusion in the Theater (SCIT)

Friday, November 13

2–3:30 p.m.
Roundtable discussion: Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid in the Covid-19 Crisis
In early April 2020 a group of activists, writers, and scholars convened to conduct interviews about the unprecedented mutual aid efforts emerging simultaneously around the world as communities of all kinds were forced to rapidly confront the challenges posed by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. This transnational collaboration resulted in the formation of Colectiva Sembrar and the publication of a book in late June, Pandemic Solidarity, that includes over 100 interviews with individuals and collectives in over 17 countries and one autonomous territory, Rojava. This panel will bring together members of Colectiva Sembrar as well as some of the people interviewed in the book for a roundtable about solidarity, mutual aid, and social justice in the age of Covid-19.

Moderator: Magalí Rabasa, L&C assistant professor of Hispanic studies
Conversation featuring Hari Alluri, Timo Bartholl, Lais Gomes Duarte, Seyma Ozdemir, Magalí Rabasa, and Marina Sitrin

Friday, November 13

No registration required. More information and Zoom links can be found during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

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

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

Friday, November 13

No registration required. More information and Zoom links can be found during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

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

Moderator: Valerie White, L&C ombuds
Channon Miller, assistant professor of history, University of San Diego (bio)
Alaí Reyes-Santos, associate professor of Indigenous, race, and ethnic studies, University of Oregon (bio)
Additional presenters to be confirmed.

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Friday, November 13

No registration required. More information and Zoom links can be found during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

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

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Friday, November 13

No registration required. More information and Zoom links can be found during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

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

Moderator: Valerie White, L&C ombuds
Channon Miller, assistant professor of history, University of San Diego (bio)
Alaí Reyes-Santos, associate professor of Indigenous, race, and ethnic studies, University of Oregon (bio)
Additional presenters to be confirmed.

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Friday, November 13

No registration required. More information and Zoom links can be found during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

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

Moderator: Valerie White, L&C ombuds
Channon Miller, assistant professor of history, University of San Diego (bio)
Alaí Reyes-Santos, associate professor of Indigenous, race, and ethnic studies, University of Oregon (bio)
Additional presenters to be confirmed.

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Friday, November 13

No registration required. More information and Zoom links can be found during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

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

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Friday, November 13

No registration required. More information and Zoom links can be found during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

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

Moderator: Valerie White, L&C ombuds
Channon Miller, assistant professor of history, University of San Diego (bio)
Alaí Reyes-Santos, associate professor of Indigenous, race, and ethnic studies, University of Oregon (bio)
Additional presenters to be confirmed.

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Please join faculty and staff to hear colleagues present short, informal talks on their research.

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

17th Annual Ray Warren Symposium
November 11-13, 2020

Movement
Call for Visual Art submission deadline:
Monday, October, 19, 2020 by 6 pm

17th Annual Ray Warren Symposium
November 11-13, 2020

Movement
Call for Visual Art submission deadline:
Monday, October, 19, 2020 by 6 pm

17th Annual Ray Warren Symposium
November 11-13, 2020

Movement
Call for Visual Art submission deadline:
Monday, October, 19, 2020 by 6 pm

Jackie Wang, black studies scholar, poet, multimedia artist, and author of Carceral Capitalism