Land Air Water—the Environmental Law Society at Oregon Law—has announced the dates and theme for the 42nd annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC). With "Cultivating Community" as its theme, this year's PIELC will take place at the University of Oregon from Friday, March 1 to Sunday, March 3, 2024. All are welcome!
Each year, faculty, staff, students, and community members come together to informally talk about transportation. We call this Bean Bag Conversations we're Having About Transportation (BBCHAT).
Today’s City Club speakers will tell you just how much nature you need, what happens if you do or don’t get it, and how local programs are working to expand nature access to everyone within our community.
Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources edited by Stephanie Lemenager & Teresa Shewry Bringing together 100 essential critical articles across 4 volumes, Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources is a comprehensive collection of the most important academic writings on ecocriticism and literature’s engagement with environmental crisis.
Please join the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies for this CLLAS Research Series Faculty presentation by John Arroyo (School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management).
This webinar will highlight a variety of faculty members who are doing multidisciplinary research in the area of the environment at the UO. Moderated by Adell Amos, Director of the Environment Initiative, speakers will discuss how their research embodies our commitment to work together to build and realize a just and livable future.
The Coalition Against Environmental Racism (CAER) is hosting its 26th Annual Environmental Justice Conference. The theme is Environmental Racism by Design, and the conference features seven BIPOC speakers over two days.
Suzanne W. Simard is Professor of Forest Ecology in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the complexity and interconnectedness of nature and is guided by her deep connection to the land and her time spent amongst the trees.
The May 8 UO Mother’s Day Powwow will be virtual for the second year in a row. This annual celebration, now in its 53rd year, is the university’s only Oregon Heritage Event and the oldest documented Powwow in the state.
Today, the conservation movement is grappling with the past and trying to forge a new path forward that will allow for greater diversity and inclusion. Presenter Dr. Dorceta Taylor is a professor at the Yale School for the Environment. She is a renowned scholar of environmental justice, who has published a wide range of influential works.
Bathsheba Demuth, Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University, is an environmental historian, specializing in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. She is interested in the how the histories of people, ideas, places, and non-human species intersect.
