What Will Your Story Be?
What you do on campus and how you get involved in our communities is entirely up to you. Every year begins with the networking event Weaving New Beginnings, where you can find opportunities and a community to support you. Do you want to focus on building strong relationships through a program focused on succeeding at the UO? Or maybe you want to be involved in celebrating legacy and cultural heritage through major events on campus. Whatever your interests are, there are opportunities and a community for you. You get to choose how your successful college experience is defined. The Multicultural Events and Programming team is here to help you get there.
Multicultural Events and Programs
Throughout the year there are a variety of events and programs hosted by students and community members focused on sharing experiences and discussions around culture and heritage with the campus community.
Weaving New Beginnings
A networking reception to welcome new students, faculty, and staff of color. This event has kicked off our fall term for more than 25 years and has become an exciting campus tradition. All are welcome.
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
Every year the campus comes together to celebrate the lasting legacy of Dr. King's work. With award celebrations, a community march, service project, and a keynote speaker this celebration brings our community together to honor our shared vision to continue moving forward and pays tribute to the individuals who have bravely stood for justice and peace.
Raices Unida Youth Conference
Latinx high schoolers from around the state of Oregon gather for a full-day conference to connect with each other and learn about access to higher education.
Heritage and History Events
During Heritage and History Months, students, faculty, and staff come together to celebrate the stories, cultures, traditions, and experiences of various cultures.
DOS Multicultural Events and Programming Team Hours
Monday–Friday: 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Creating a common dialogue
The Office of the Dean of Students Multicultural Events and Programming team provides a place where all students are welcome to meet, plan, and help create a stronger community. It is a place that helps you connect with students of all races and backgrounds to collaborate around cultural programming and education. Our team collaborates on several events and celebrations throughout the year.
Resources
The Division of Student Life—as well as many offices and programs in the Division of Equity and Inclusion—work closely with a number of campus services to connect you with resources, services, and community. Below are a number of resources you might find helpful.
Events
7:00 a.m.–11:00 p.m.
want to see Paul Wilsons work? Come view the photography in the McMillan Gallery located in the EMU 2nd floor. The view is through Oct. 27 - Nov. 26, 2024 and the gallery is open during all EMU hours.
Additionally please join the BEseries as we welcome Paul Robert Wolf Wilson (Klamath, Modoc) will be coming to UO!
More About Paul Robert Wolf Wilson - Tuesday, November 26th , 5:00 pm Doors & Dinner, 6:00 pm Presentation – EMU Ballroom
Paul Robert Wolf Wilson is a photographer, cinematographer, previous Chief Storyteller at Rios to Rivers, LEAD Ambassador for the Northwest River Suppliers, and expedition athlete. As a Klamath and Modoc photographer, he focuses his lens on the effects of the climate crisis on frontline indigenous communities and the lands and waters they have stewarded. After his first river trip on the Rio Baker in Patagonia, Paul and his sister started the Maqlaqs Paddle Club in Chiloquin, Oregon, to get more tribal youth onto our ancestral rivers in kayaks, he uses his storytelling and recreational platforms to rally public education and support around river stewardship- taking this struggle from local conversations all the way up to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change. If he’s not on the river or at his desk, you can probably find him off-trail, struggle-busing with a backpack full of camera gear.
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11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
This exhibition examines artistic responses to violence instigated by state regimes across the Americas to disclose censored narratives, argue for the importance of artmaking as an act of memory and witnessing, advocate research, and seek justice.
Through the lens of contemporary art, Necroarchivos, “the archival study of the spaces between life and death and their interconnections” investigates diverse responses to the “disappeared” from the Americas. From the 1960s to the ‘90s in Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Guatemala, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, El Salvador, Uruguay, and Nicaragua, intellectuals, artists, and activists were kidnapped, tortured, exiled, and in numerous instances murdered, for demanding human rights and opposing dictatorial regimes and censorship. More recently, from the late ‘90s to today, people in the region have been victims of ongoing failed policies such as the War on Drugs, narco-violence, the continued presence of dictators, feminicide, and a brutal state and border apparatus.
Conceptualized as “Necroarchivos” by Dr. Adriana Miramontes Olivas, these artworks examine, archive, and denounce these issues and the continued disappearance of women and other individuals while addressing both art historical concerns and trends to challenge the definition of art and its impact upon society.
11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
“Plegaria Muda” (2008-10) by Doris Salcedo is a contemplative installation consisting of pairs of tables that symbolize burials. The tables incorporate mud, seeds, and grass, speaking not only of death but also of life, or life after death. Our second largest gallery in the museum will be devoted for this special project.
11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Join Global Education Oregon for an info session to learn more about the Climate Change and Indigeneity in Sāmoa study abroad program!
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Are you a current exchange student at the UO or a future outbound exchange student? Attend this event to meet fellow exchange students and get to know one another!
This event is part of International Education Week. Check out the full list of events for the week here.