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Events and Themes
Past Events
Past Themes
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Wayne Morse Chairholders | Distinguished Speakers | Resident Scholars | Dissertation Fellows
Monday, April 30, 2012
"Progressives, the Corporation, and American Democracy"
Featuring Nick Salvatore, Cornell University
110 Knight Law Center
5 p.m.
Cosponsored by Labor Education and Research Center and the UO History Department
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Wayne Morse Family Farm Open House
595 Crest Drive
- House tours and exhibits, 1-4pm
- "Vote for Morse"—a Morse campaign retrospective, featuring b/w photography by T.H. Gentile from the 1972 campaign
- OPB Documentary: "Oregon Experience: Wayne Morse, (30-minute repeating video)
- Camas Ridge Marimbas led by Don Adee, 2-3:30pm
- Old-fashioned Ice Cream Social, 3-4pm
2011-12 Past Events
September 28, 2011
"The Folks Who Brought you the Middle Class: Unions and the Future of American Democracy"
Featuring Bob Baugh and Steve Novick.
Cosponsored by the Labor Education and Research Center.
Part of the "In the Shadows of the Great Recession: Recovery and Inequality" speaker series.
175 Knight Law Center
4:30 p.m.
Listen to the event courtesy of KLCC
October 1, 2011
"(un)Bound By Law"
Symposium in honor of Keith Aoki featuring Steve Bender, James Boyle, Bob Chang, Maggie Chon, Ibrahim Gassama, Neil Gotanda, Jennifer Jenkins, Hari Osofsky, John Shuford and others.
175 Knight Law Center
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Followed by a reception and concert in Wayne Morse Commons
October 5, 2011
"Agenda for a New Economy"
Wayne Morse Fellows event featuring economist David Korten.
6:30 p.m.
110 Knight Law Center
October 8, 2011
Screening of Not in Our Town: Light in the Darkness
Followed by roundtable discussion on communities and immigration featuring Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy and others. Part of the Good Works Film Festival.
3 p.m.
Hult Center Studio
October 20-22, 2011
TWAIL Conference
The fourth conference on Third World Approaches to International Law focuses on the Wayne Morse
Center theme of inquiry, "Capitalism and the Common Good."
November 7, 2011
"Corporate Power in Politics and the Economy: What the Citizens United Decision Means for Our Democracy"
Annual Wayne Morse Public Address featuring Wayne Morse Chair Senator Russ Feingold. Part of the Lorwin Lecture Series.
Erb Memorial Union Ballroom
4 p.m.
Read the press release
Daring to Look: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange in Oregon
January 24, 2012
110 Knight Law Center
4 p.m.
Lecture and program on Depression-era policies featuring Anne Whiston Spirn, photographer, MIT professor, and author of Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field.
Lecture is held in conjunction with the Dorothea Lange in Oregon, 1939 photo exhibit. Cosponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture.
Special Preview of Oregon Experience: Wayne Morse
February 16
110 Knight Law Center
12:30 p.m. (law students) and 5 p.m. (general public)
Preview of Oregon Public Broadcasting special program on Wayne Morse as part of the Oregon Experience series. The program airs on OPB on Tuesday, February 21 at 8 p.m.
Building Inclusive Communities: Lessons Learned by Littleton, Colorado
February 21
110 Knight Law Center
3:30 p.m.
Susan Thornton served as mayor and city council member for 16 years in Littleton, Colorado, where she chaired the Immigrant Integration Initiative that has become a national model.
Dorothea Lange in Oregon, 1939 photo exhibit
January 23 – February 26, 2012
Knight Law Center
second floor
7 a.m. - 6 p.m.
This traveling exhibit of the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission is sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center and features a remarkable collection of photos by Depression-Era documentary photographer Dorothea Lange. Cosponsored by the UO Department of Landscape Architecture, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum, the UO School of Law and the Oregon Humanities Center.
Prospects for Restoring Worker Power
February 24
110 Knight Law Center
12:30 p.m.
Janice Fine, Rutgers University, will discuss innovative union and community organizing strategies and low wage immigrant labor in the U.S. Her talk will be followed by commentary by two experts on organized labor who will provide cross-national and practical political perspective on the subject. Commentary by Barbara Pocock, visiting professor from University of South Australia, and Gordon Lafer, UO Labor Education and Research Center
Part of the In the Shadows of the Great Recession: Recovery and Inequality speaker series.
The Politics of Inequality
March 1, 2012
175 Knight Law Center
4 p.m.
Jacob Hacker (Yale) and Paul Pierson (UC Berkeley) will visit the UO to discuss their recent book Winner Take All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class.
Part of the "In the Shadows of the Great Recession: Recovery and Inequality" speaker series. Listen to the audio
Gender Equity and Capitalism: The Impact of Capitalist Development on Women’s Economic Status and Rights
March 8-9, 2012
Gerlinger Lounge on afternoon of March 8; Knight Law Center on evening of March 8 (Room 110) and all day on March 9 (Room 175).
Feminist theory criticizes capitalism for devaluing women’s work, ignoring women’s unpaid labor, and oppressing women. This symposium focuses on women’s economic status and equality as a key component of human and civil rights in capitalist societies. Featured speakers include Barbara Pocock, Nancy Folbre and Alissa Trotz. Cosponsored by the Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Liberties.
View conference website
Recovering from the Bubble Economy: Jobs, Wages and Unemployment
April 9, 2012
Giustina Ballroom, Ford Alumni Center
7:00 p.m.
Featuring Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Mark Thoma, UO economist. Part of the "In the Shadows of the Great Recession: Recovery and Inequality" speaker series.
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