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| 7pm - 8:30pm |
"Re-Burdening the White Man (and the
Rest of Us): |
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National Security and Race Viewed from
Within the Empire" |
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Reception in the Morse Commons Immediately Following
Roundtable |
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| Keynote Speaker
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Roberto
Lovato Writer, Pacific News Service |
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Roberto Lovato is the 2003 George
Washington Williams Fellow for Independent Media, under the Independent
Press Association. Lovato's essays on issues of race, immigration,
foreign policy, and American politics have appeared in the Los
Angeles Times, Salon,
The Nation, La
Opinion, and other national and international
media. Lovato founded the Central American Studies Program at California
State University - Northridge, the first Central American Studies
program in the United States. Before his recent move to Brooklyn,
Lovato regularly taught courses on Latina/o immigration at California
State University - Los Angeles. He is currently conducting research
for a book on Ronald Reagan. |
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| Moderator |
Steven
Bender James and Ilene Hershner Professor and Director
of Portland Programs, University of Oregon School of Law |
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Steven W. Bender spent five years
practicing real estate law at the Phoenix-based business law firm
of Lewis and Roca. He is the co-author of a casebook on real estate
transactions, a national treatise on real estate financing, and a
book on Latino stereotypes titled Greasers
and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination
(NYU Press 2003) and is currently working on a new text of Street
Law for Latina/os. Bender previously served as co-director of the
law school's Center for Law and Entrepreneurship. |
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Roundtable
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Shaul Cohen
Associate Professor, Geography, University of Oregon |
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Shaul Cohen's work in
political and cultural geography focuses on the interface between
power and the environment and on questions of ethnicity and territory.
This work focuses on Gramscian hegemony and discourses of nature,
largely pursued in relation to tree planting and forest issues. His
work on ethnicity and territory concentrates on the Israel-Palestine
conflict. Professor Cohen is an active member of the UO Concerned
Faculty for Peace and Justice. |
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Ibrahim
Hamide Owner and Chef, Cafe
Soriah and Peace Activist |
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Ibrahim Hamide, a Eugene restaurateur
of Palestinian heritage, immigrated to the United States in 1969 at
age 18. He is a tireless activist on issues of war, peace, and justice,
including issues of concern in the Middle East and in the post 9/11
world. Hamide has been in the restaurant business for more than 25
years, and is known as the "father of Middle Eastern food in
Eugene," especially for the critically-acclaimed Café
Soriah. |
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Raquel Hecht
Founding Partner, Hecht & Smith LLP, Oregon Immigration Attorneys |
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Raquel Hecht received
her J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1993. She
has practiced immigration law in the state of Oregon ever since. Hecht,
who teaches Immigration Law at the University of Oregon School of
Law, is fluent in five languages and semi-fluent in four more. She
has worked with Centro LatinoAmericano to provide job skills, jobs
outreach and legal aid intake services to Latina/o clients. |
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Ramon Ramirez President,
PCUN (Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del
Noroeste); President, CAUSA, Oregon's Immigrant Rights Organization |
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Ramon Ramirez has worked on immigrant rights/farmworker issues for over 25 years. In addition to his leadership duties with PCUN, Oregon's farmworker union, and CAUSA, a statewide immigrant rights coalition, Ramirez is President of Western State Center's board of directors and serves on the board of directors of the Farmworker Housing Development Corporation and Mano a Mano Family Center. |
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Magdaleno Rose-Avila Executive
Director, Northwest Immigrant Rights
Project, Seattle |
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The son of immigrant parents and
one of 12 children, Magdaleno Rose-Avila began his working life in
the onion fields of southeast Colorado at the early age of 11. He
was a leading voice and figure in the Chicano Movement of the 1960's
and '70's and ran for public office for La Raza Unida Party. Rose-Avila
holds a degree in communications from University of Colorado in Boulder.
In addition to his leadership of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project,
Rose-Avila is advocates for the abolition of the death penalty. He
is an accomplished poet and is the author of Looking
for My Wings. |
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| 10am - 12:15pm |
"Race, Immigration, and Deportation
at the Canada - US Borderland" |
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This panel will focus on national and international
implications of the migration pathways and adjustment experiences
of native peoples and recent immigrants in western Canada and the
US. Panelists will discuss some of the ways different groups are
dealing with the challenges of life in a new, increasingly politicized
environment on both sides of the US-Canadian border. Theoretical
and empirical themes linking the speakers in this panel include
the implications of racial, political, spatial, and socioeconomic
differences on settlement and survival in the region; and the local
and trans-local impacts of international migration flows in a globalizing
world.
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Chair
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Susan Hardwick
Professor, Geography, University of Oregon |
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Susan W. Hardwick is
an internationally known scholar on the geography of immigration,
race, and ethnicity and on issues related to geographic education.
She has published three scholarly books, two university-level textbooks,
and numerous journal articles focusing on immigrants, refugees, and
asylees in the American West. In addition, she is also a member of
the Executive Board of the American Geographical Society and was elected
to the Council of the Association of American Geographers. |
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Presenters
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American Indians Caught in American
Wars |
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Margaret
Knox Ph.D. Candidate, Geography, University of Oregon |
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Boundaries Matter: Immigration Regimes and Business Migrants in
Canada and the U.S. |
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David
Ley Professor, Geography, University of British Columbia;
Director, Metropolis
Project |
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David Ley is appointed
as a Trudeau Foundation Fellow from 2003-2006. As the UBC Director
of the Metropolis Project from 1996-2003, his work focused on issues
of immigration and integration in Greater Vancouver and beyond. He
holds a Canada Research Chair in Geography, and his research interests
focus on downtown and inner city topics, as well as broader issues
in social and cultural geography. |
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Racialized Immigration Policies in the Pacific Rim: Historical Lessons,
Contemporary Practices, and Impacts on Asians |
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Wei
Li Associate Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies,
Arizona State University |
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Wei Li received her
Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Southern California in 1997,
and joined the staff at Arizona State University as an Assistant Professor
of Asian Pacific American Studies in the Department of Geography in
2001. She is currently working on a book
entitled Ethnoburb: the New Ethnic Community in Urban America.
Her teaching interests include urban geography, geography of the Pacific
Rim, Asian American community formation and development, and race
and ethnicity in North American cities. |
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The Neoliberal Nexus: Economic Security, Homeland Security, &
the Future of the Border |
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Matthew
Sparke Associate Professor, Geography, University of Washington |
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Matthew Sparke received his Ph.D.
in Geography from the University of British Columbia in 1996. In recent
years most of his work has focused on globalization, including the
text Introduction to Globalization (Blackwell). Based on research
funded by a National Science Foundation CAREER grant, he has also
authored a number of articles for academic journals on related themes,
including the links between globalization and American dominance,
and the impact of economic interdependency on border regions. |
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Cambodian Refugee Deportation after September 11 |
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Sokhom Tauch Director, Immigrant
and Refugee Community Organization, Portland |
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Mr. Tauch is a refugee
from Cambodia who came to the U.S. in 1975 and became a U.S. Citizen
in 1981. He was among the first group of Cambodians who resettled
in Portland, and has since become highly involved in many communities,
refugee, immigrant, and mainstream alike. He earned a Bachelor's degree
in Accounting and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from
Marylhurst College. Since 1996, he has served as the Executive Director
of IRCO, a nationally and internationally-recognized resource and
service organization for recent immigrant and refugee populations.
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| Discussant |
Alexander
Murphy Professor, Geography, University of Oregon |
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Alec Murphy holds the James F. and
Shirley K. Rippey Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University
of Oregon. He specializes in cultural and political geography, with
a regional emphasis on Europe. Professor Murphy is the immediate Past
President of the Association of American Geographers, a Vice-President
of the American Geographical Society, and an editor of both Progress
in Human Geography and Eurasian Geography and Economics. |
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| 1:15pm - 3pm |
"The War on Terror: Immigrant
Rights and the Racialization |
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of Citizenship" |
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This panel will focus on the broader implications
of the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the USA
PATRIOT Act and other anti-terrorism legislation (Anti-Terrorism
and Effective Death Penalty Act), and the Illegal Immigrant Reform
and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA). The session would broadly
consider the racialization of citizenship in terms of the vulnerability
of non-citizens and the deterioration of rights for those citizens
targeted and racially profiled (social citizenship). Specifically,
how has the racialized political climate since 9/11 resulted in
a war on terror that perpetuates lived terror in immigrant communities?
What policy alternatives might be developed in order to ameliorate
the terror lived in immigrant communities?
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Chair |
Keith
Aoki Philip H. Knight Professor, University of Oregon School
of Law |
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Keith Aoki earned his J.D. from
Harvard Law School, where he sat on the editorial board for the Harvard
Environmental Law Review and served on the editorial staff of the
Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Aoki practiced law
for two years at Hale and Dorr, a Boston firm specializing in technology
law. He is interested in the intersection of critical theory and the
law. His scholarship interests include voting and voting rights issues,
Japanese-American internment during WWII, and civil rights implications
of the war on terror. |
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| Presenters |
Guantánamo is Everywhere |
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Muneer
Ahmad Associate Professor, Law, American University |
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Muneer Ahmad received his J.D. from
Harvard Law School in 1996 and was selected the following year as
the Skadden Fellow by the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern
California. After that he spent three years as the Legal Task Force
Chair for the South Asian Network. His specializations include immigrant
rights, clinical legal education, labor and employment, and poverty
law. |
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The War on Terrorism as a Calculated War Against Immigrants |
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Lynn
Fujiwara Assistant Professor, Sociology/Women's and Gender
Studies, University of Oregon |
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Lynn Fujiwara received her Ph.D.
in Sociology from the University of California-Santa Cruz. She has
been an assistant professor in women's and gender studies and sociology
at the University of Oregon since September 2000. As a Morse Resident
Scholar for 2004-05, Professor Fujiwara is working on her project
entitled "The War against Terrorism and Immigrant Rights."
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Immigrants Fight Back Against Anti-immigrant Hysteria
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Renee
Saucedo Director, La Raza
Centro Legal, San Francisco |
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Renee Saucedo is an organizer, activist and
lawyer who has played a prominent role in this country's immigrant
rights movement at all levels. She founded INS WATCH, a grassroots
organization that resists INS enforcement, facilitated immigrant
organizing around Welfare Reform, and helped push for San Francisco
being declared an "INS Raid-Free Zone." In her current
job as Director of the San Francisco Day Laborer Program, Renee
supports organizing by day laborers and domestic workers, and has
helped establish a Day Laborer Center, a San Francisco Day Laborer
Association and a Domestic Workers Collective.
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Racialization of Muslim-Looking Bodies under the War on Terrorism |
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Irum
Shiekh Instructor, Ethnic Studies, University of California
- Berkeley |
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Dr. Irum Shiekh is a
filmmaker and Ethnic Studies scholar whose art and writing focuses
on September 11, representations of race and gender, and internment
of Japanese-Latin Americans. Shiekh, who received her Ph.D. in Ethnic
Studies from the University of California at Berkeley ,is currently
writing a book including oral histories of people detained and confined
at the Metropolitan Detention Center, New York immediately following
the 9/11 attacks. Shiekh has produced the following documentary films:
On Strike Ethnic Studies: 1969-1999,
Hijab: An Expression of My Soul,
and Henna in the US. |
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Discussant
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 D.
Michael Dale Executive Director, Northwest
Workers' Justice Project, Portland |
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D. Michael Dale has worked for 25
years as a legal services attorney in Oregon, directing its migrant
program. Dale helped establish the Oregon Law Center in 1995 in order
to provide legal services to undocumented individuals, including representation
in class action litigation. Dale has litigated and won significant
cases involving minimum wage law, immigration rights, and workers
compensation in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and in the Oregon
appellate courts. |
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| 3:15pm - 5pm
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"Brown Borders" |
| This panel will look at immigration
and immigration politics after 9/11, focusing on Latina/o immigrants
and Latina/o populations, and situated in the geography of both the
US/Mexico border and the borders that exist elsewhere among Latina/o
communities under the post 9/11 emphasis on preventing undocumented
immigration and rounding up undocumented immigrants. Because the impetus
for Latina/o immigration is economic, the panel will address labor-based
proposals for immigration law reform, such as the AgJobs bill and
guest labor proposals, particularly those proposals specific to Latina/o
immigration. |
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Chair |
Steven Bender
James and Ilene Hershner Professor and Director of Portland Programs,
University of Oregon School of Law |
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Steven W. Bender spent
five years practicing real estate law at the Phoenix-based business
law firm of Lewis and Roca. He is the co-author of a casebook on real
estate transactions, a national treatise on real estate financing,
and a book on Latino stereotypes titled Greasers
and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination
(NYU Press 2003) and is currently working
on a new text of Street Law for Latina/os. Bender previously served
as co-director of the law school's Center for Law and Entrepreneurship. |
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| Presenters |
Alienage Law at a Crossroad: Replacing Preemption for a Fundamental
Rights Discourse to Challenge Anti-Immigrant Measures Post-9/11 |
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Raquel
Aldana Associate Professor, Boyd School of Law, University
of Nevada-Las Vegas |
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Professor Aldana earned her J.D.
in 1997 from Harvard Law School, where she served as articles editor
of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Previously,
Professor Aldana worked for the Center for Justice and International
Law, representing victims of gross human rights violations in the
Inter-American System on Human Rights. Prior to that, Aldana was an
associate at the law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington,
D.C. |
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Labor as Property: NAFTA, Guestworkers and the Democracy Deficit
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Ruben
Garcia Assistant Professor, California Western School of
Law |
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Professor Garcia joined the faculty
at California Western in 2003 after having taught at the University
of California, Davis School of Law and the University of Wisconsin
Law School, where he was a William H. Hastie Fellow. Garcia's research
focuses on labor and employment law, with attention to the effects
of race, gender, immigration and globalization on the world of work.
He previously specialized in labor and employment law while in private
practice in Los Angeles. |
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Brown Border ... Brown Roundups ... Brown Shadows |
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Magdaleno
Rose-Avila Executive Director, Northwest
Immigrant Rights Project, Seattle |
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The son of immigrant parents and
one of 12 children, Magdaleno Rose-Avila began his working life in
the onion fields of southeast Colorado at the early age of 11. He
was a leading voice and figure in the Chicano Movement of the 1960's
and '70's and ran for public office for La Raza Unida Party. Rose-Avila
holds a degree in communications from University of Colorado in Boulder.
In addition to his leadership of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project,
Rose-Avila is advocates for the abolition of the death penalty. He
is an accomplished poet and is the author of Looking
for My Wings. |
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Carmen
Urbina Director, Centro LatinoAmericano, Eugene |
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Carmen Urbina is the outgoing Executive
Director of Centro LatinoAmericano, a position she has held for the
past 8 years. CentroLatino provides parent education, crisis intervention,
transitional housing, alcohol and drug counseling, immigration counseling,
and ESL programs to serve our area's growing Latina/o community. CentroLatino
has also recently added a Latino youth program and is a lead player
in the Latino Medical Access Coalition. Urbina currently directs a
staff of more than 30 employees with an annual operating budget of
nearly $1 million. Urbina, a native of Honduras, first came to Oregon
to attend Oregon State University, where she earned a degree in agriculture
in 1989. |
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| Discussant |
Lise Nelson
Assistant Professor, Geography, University of Oregon |
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Lise Nelson earned her Ph.D. in
Geography from the University of Washington in 2000. Nelson's research
specializes in issues of gender, political geography, and international
rural development. Her current research examines gender and citizenship
in contemporary Mexico, through an ethnographic investigation of changing
gendered political identities and practices in an indigenous community
located in the state of Michoacán. |
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| Directions
and Information |
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DISABILITY ACCOMODATIONS |
| All Symposium sessions will take place
in Room 175, Knight Law Center. This is a wheelchair-accessible room
on the first floor. For any accommodation requests related to a disability,
please inform CoDaC no later than March 15, 2005. |
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| DIRECTIONS |
| The UO School of Law is located in the
Knight Law Center, 1515 Agate Street, Eugene, Oregon 97403. It is
on the corner of Agate Street and E 15th Avenue. |
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From
North of Eugene: From I-5 South, take Exit 194B onto 126/I-105
West. Take Exit 2, keep left and follow the signs to
the UO. Proceed in
the left lane over the Ferry Street Bridge, exiting onto Broadway,
which becomes Franklin Boulevard.
Follow Franklin Boulevard
to Agate Street. Turn right onto Agate Street. |
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From
South of Eugene: From I-5 North, take Exit 192. Merge onto Franklin
Boulevard. After merging, get in the left lane and
follow Franklin Boulevard
to Agate Street. Turn left onto Agate Street. |
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From
West of Eugene: Take 126 East until it becomes W. 11th Avenue.
Follow W. 11th Avenue to Garfield Street and turn
left. Take Garfield
to W. 7th Avenue and turn right. Get in the right lane and follow
Seventh Avenue until it becomes Franklin
Boulevard. Get in
the right lane and follow Franklin Boulevard to Agate Street. Turn
right onto Agate Street. |
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From
East of Eugene: Take 126/I-105 West. Take Exit 2, keep left and
follow the signs to the UO. Proceed in the left lane
over the Ferry Street
Bridge, exiting onto Broadway, which becomes Franklin Boulevard. Follow
Franklin Boulevard to Agate
Street. |
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| FOOD |
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Thursday evening's events will conclude with a
public reception in the Wayne Morse Commons. Hearty hors d'ouevres,
beer, wine, sodas, and bottled waters will be served.
The Court Café at the Law School is just a few
steps from Room 175 and will be open on Friday for breakfast, lunch,
and snack fare. The Court Café offers a delicious variety of vegetarian
and non-vegetarian lunch fare, including Cornucopia deli sandwiches,
pizza, Polish hot dogs and fresh soups, as well as fresh muffins,
bagels, organic coffees, juices and soft drinks.
Several restaurants and eateries are located on
E. 13th Avenue, E. 18th Avenue, E. 19th Avenue, Franklin Boulevard,
and Willamette Street. All are within walking or short driving distance
(3 - 5 minutes) of the UO Law School, and most offer a variety of
vegetarian and non-vegetarian fare.
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| PARKING |
| Visitor parking passes are available
at the Department of Public Safety (1319 E. 15th Avenue) or at the
UO Parking Kiosk (E. 13th Avenue and Agate Street, in front of Oregon
Hall). Metered street parking,
either under the jurisdiction of UO or the City of Eugene, is enforced
all day until 6:00PM. Residential street parking is also available
near the UO Law School. Please observe all posted signs and other
parking restrictions. |
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| OVERNIGHT LODGING |
| Should you seek overnight accommodations
in Eugene, the Best
Western New Oregon Inn has made a limited number of rooms available
at a special conference rate (mention the CoDaC conference). All of
the following inns, hotels and B&Bs are located within walking
or short driving distance of the UO Law School. |
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Campus Inn
390 E. Broadway
(541) 343-3376
(800) 888-6313
Rates: $74-98
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Best Western
1655 Franklin Blvd
(541) 683-3669
(800) 528-1234
Rates: $53-78
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Phoenix Inn
850 Franklin Blvd
(541) 344-0001
(800) 344-0131
Rates: $74-139
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Quality Inn
2121 Franklin Blvd
(541) 342-1234
(800) 456-6487
Rates: $48-89 |
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McGarry House
Bed & Breakfast
856 E. 19th Ave
(541) 485-0037
(800) 953-9921
Rates: $85-100
| The Oval Door
Bed & Breakfast
988 Lawrence Street
(541) 683-3160
(800) 882-3160
Rates: $65-135
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The Secret Garden
Bed & Breakfast
1910 University St
(541) 484-6755
(888) 484-6755
Rates: $115-215
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