Multicultural Events and Programming

From Jan. 21 and continuing until March 18, the Northwest Native American Language Resource Center (NW-NALRC) will be holding weekly consultation and assistance times. 

From 2-3pm PST we will be providing consultation and assistance with Community Projects and Planning. 

From 3-4pm PST we will be providing consultation and assistance for Supporting Language Teaching and Learning. 

To join, please fill out this short form https://forms.office.com/r/D2pg3wErfj.

If you are in need of assistance, or if you have any questions, please contact nalrc@uoregon.edu. 

Oregon Law is honored to welcome Justin Driver, the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School, as the 2026 Derrick Bell Lecturer. Professor Driver teaches and writes in the field of constitutional law and is the author of The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education.

The Derrick Bell Lecture honors Oregon Law’s first Black dean and renowned civil rights scholar, Derrick Bell, and features leading voices on race, law, and justice. Open to students, faculty, and the community.

Please join the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies for a talk with Shane T. Moreman, PhD, Department of Communication, California State University, Fresno, titled “Displaced Practices of Discursive Change Circulations of Social Justice Ephemeralities within a Leather Bar Context.” 

"While not the only ones, three normative discourses still dominate U.S. Western society: Whiteness, masculinity, and heterosexuality. As a critical communication scholar working through a performance studies paradigm, my work codifies these discourses with the goal of recognizing moments of social justice reconstitutions. My latest communication performance ethnography focuses on discursive interactions within a leather gay bar—Falcon—located in a mostly commercial neighborhood on the northeast side of a major U.S. northwestern city. I am drawn to learn how Whiteness and its adjacent cis male and masculine positionalities are circulating within contemporary, shifting registers of social codes around race/ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. As the world changes, how are these discourses adapting and changing? Steeped within the Whiteness, cis-maleness, and masculinity of a leather gay bar context, Falcon is a context for a bar culture that modulates and incorporates macro-level discursive conceptions into its localized performative acts all situated within contemporary frameworks. Influenced by Gloria Anzaldúa, Maria Lugones, and José Esteban Muñoz, I embrace a ontoepistemological approach so as to empirically cruise Falcon for creativity that disrupts normative reductions and advances complex co-existence. As Whiteness and its adjacent cis male and masculine positionalities co-mingle with contemporary expressions of nonnormative race/ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, I observe moments of co-mmuning and possibly co-muting with transness, nonbinariness, and gender diversity. When normativity tries to adapt to queer worldmaking, how are those adaptations manifested in the moment? In what ways are social codes reconfigured to generate a better presence? And, as queer worldmaking is ephemeral, what might we move forward with to improve the normative worlds in which we all predominantly must exist—at least for now? I begin answering those questions as a joto with a tequila soda in my hand at a mostly White, mostly cis male, and mostly masculine leather gay bar named Falcon."

Join us for the official launch of the Media in Ghana exhibit, as we celebrate the program’s nearly 30-year legacy of cultural immersion and professional development.

The event will begin with brief remarks, followed by light refreshments.

About the Media in Ghana program:

The Media in Ghana program, housed within the UO’s School of Journalism and Communication, is a six-week summer excursion based in Ghana’s capital city of Accra. Through this immersive experience, participants have the opportunity to learn firsthand about Ghana’s media landscape, as well as the country’s history, culture, and development challenges. During their first week in Ghana, participants attend onsite orientation meetings and lectures on Ghanaian media, with the remaining time spent in full-time internship/practicum placements. Participants also embark on weekend field trips to visit areas such as Kumasi (the capital of the Ashanti Region), Cape Coast (Central Region), and other destinations within the country.

Website: https://ghana.uoregon.edu/

In honor of International Mother Language Day, the Northwest Indigenous Language Institute (NILI) at the UO invites you to attend an evening of film and conversation to raise awareness about revitalizing Indigenous languages and cultures.

Two documentaries will be screened. The first, Kla-Mo-Ya Language (20 min), by UO student filmmaker Princess (Princi) Bass-Mason, introduces people learning the Klamath, Modoc and Yahooskin languages, which are being revitalized by the Klamath Tribes of Oregon. The second film, And Knowledge To Keep Us (58 min), by UO journalism professor Torsten Kjellstrand, follows a Sugpiat culture and language camp that takes place annually on remote Kodiak Island in Alaska.

Immediately following the screening, a panel consisting of the two filmmakers and language revitalization practitioners will hold a conversation with the audience. Tickets are sliding scale and by donation only: suggested donation of $10 for students, $20 for adults. All proceeds will go towards the critical work at NILI helping to restore and revitalize languages of Oregon and beyond.

https://www.eugenearthouse.com/movie/and-knowledge-to-keep-us-wq