DEI Fall into Winter 2020 Newsletter
Fall quarter will be "virtually" over by the time you receive this newsletter. It has not been like any other one we can remember. There have been many challenges, but there has also been courage, resilience and community. Below you will find some ways we have been together and some we are looking forward to when we return, in the ways we can, for winter quarter.

We thank each of you for all the many ways you have contributed to making our university and beyond a more equitable and inclusive community this year.

Enjoy this time of winter break.
Fall Quarter Highlights
IDEAL: Our Roadmap for a Fully-Inclusive and Resilient Campus
Division of Equity and Inclusion
December 10, 2020
Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh
Vice President, Equity and Inclusion
& Professor of Political Science
Missed a speaker? Wish you could see it again? Share it with friends?
Click the video recording links below
Civil Society’s Debt to Higher Education
Honorable Eric H. Holder
Defending Democracy: A Conversation with Eric H. Holder, Jr., 82nd Attorney General of the United States (2009-2015)
[Available until January 21]
Emmanuel Akyeampong
African and African American Relations,
c.1960 to Recent Times: Transformations in Global Blackness
Gordon Hall to Retire: Send Best Wishes
Dr. Gordon C. Nagayama Hall, Ph.D will be retiring this quarter. He is a UO Professor of Psychology and former Associate Director of Research and Acting Director in DEI's Center on Diversity and Community (CoDaC). His research interests are in Asian American physical and mental health and he has investigated the effects of stereotypes on mental health among Chinese international students. He served as President of the Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA) and received the AAPA Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Hall also served as President of the American Psychological Association Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues and received the Society's Distinguished Career Contributions to Research Award.
We have set up a page so you can give your well wishes to Dr. Hall.
Click the button above.
Winter Quarter
Don't miss the many offerings to honor Rev. Dr. King, Jr. this year. Listed are just a few. Please continue to check our website and watch your email for more updates.
UO Events
Thursday, January 14
11 am - UO MLK, Jr. presentation Youtube Premier including: Vice President Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Rabbi Meir Goldstein, Jacqueline Cordova Arrington, Assistant Professor of Flute and Natalie North, SOMD student; and others. Details forthcoming on DEI website.

1 pm - Committee on Recognizing our Diverse History: A First Difficult Dialogue Details and RSVP coming soon on DEI website.

Black Panthers showing with Ducks after Dark. More info forthcoming via FB, Instagram or Twitter
UO MAP will offer free community testing to asymptomatic community members all day Thursday, January 14 at Mac Court, including minors over the age of three and under the age of 15 if a parent or legal guardian registers them and accompanies them to the testing event. Community members between the ages of 15 and 18 are able to register themselves and attend without a guardian. Note: Registration will begin around Jan 7.
UO Virtual Event
BE Series
Nikkita Oliver
Tuesday, January 19, 6 to 7 pm
Nikkita Oliver is a Seattle-based creative, community organizer, abolitionist, educator and attorney. She is the co-executive director of Creative Justice, an arts-based alternative to incarceration.

Community Events
Monday, January 18
Stay tuned to NAACP Eugene/ Springfield website for information for MLK Day events and activities.
All 2020-21 events are virtual
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
January 13, 2021
5:30 - 7 pm
The Role of Antiracist Research in the Academy and Beyond
Lia Epperson
February 12, 2021
12 - 1:30 p.m.
Are We Still Not Saved? Race, Democracy, and Educational Inequality

UO Law School Derrick Bell Speaker Series 
Kimberly Johnson
February 9, 2021
5:30 - 7 pm
How Far Do You Have To Go For Justice? Acting beyond the vote.
Freeman A. Hrabowski, III
March 2, 2021
5:30 - 7 pm
The Empowered University: Shared Leadership, Culture Change, and Academic Success 
Check the DEI website and UO homepage during February and March for more information on events, activities and resources.
UO Leadership Academy
UO Leadership Academy is a year-long professional development opportunity designed to increase our collective knowledge of transformational leadership practices and grow a diverse cohort of university leaders.. Questions: leadershipacademy@uoregon.edu. Now accepting applications for the 2021-22 cohort - due January 22

Nikole Hannah-Jones
"1619 and the Legacy That Built a Nation"
February 19, 2021
Diana Guerrero-Maciá
An Unpainted Picture
January 28, 2021. 4pm
 Virtual Event
UO Department of Art Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Vien Truong 
Fighting for the Future
2020-21 Tzedek Lecturer
February 2, 2021
BE Heard with David F. Walker
Comic Book Writer and Filmmaker
February 23, 2021
5:30pm to 7:30pm
Community Conversations for Diverse Voices in Music and Dance
SOMD's CEI committee will host a series of conversations for faculty, staff, current students and alumni from the SOMD who identify as members of the BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ communities to create a safe space and community for members of identifying individuals at the SOMD.
Social Justice in Oration. Winter quarter, JDS 410. "The course will balance two essential goals: learning from the moves and motifs of some of the exemplary SJ speeches and student application to their own SJ speeches."
Nuestra Imagen Actual/
Our Present Image:
Mexico and the Graphi Arts
1929-1956
Oct 3, 2020 to Feb 14, 2021
Robin Morris Collin: "The Geography of Injustice and the Ecology of Reparations"
How can centuries of environmental exploitation and social injustice in the U.S. be unraveled? Robin Morris Collin, the Norma Paulus Professor of Law at Willamette University College of Law, shares her passion for creating solutions to remedy environmental injustice.
Job Opportunity
Justice and Equity Program Organizer
Community Alliance of Lane County - CALC- is hiring an organizer for a new justice and equity program. The organizer colloborate with community partners, volunteers, and intern.
In The Press
Check your mailbox, the UO homepage and the AtO website.
Here are a few articles of interest that appeared recently

BE Engaged with Sven Haakanson

How to Heal Climate Injustice with Robin Morris Collin

Creating a path of opportunity for Latinx students

Staff Recommendations
Between the World and Me
"Kamilah Forbes’ adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. Coates was a guest of the UO African American Workshop and Lecture series.
Support Local Businesses!

Springfield, OR 97477
Resilience of Chosen Family hosted by Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon - APANO
Dec 16, 5 pm

How can establishing a Chosen Family enhance a sense of belonging and resilience for BIPOC communities? Join APANO community members, in a BIPOC only space,
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
QWOCMAP creates, exhibits, and distributes high-impact films that authentically reflect the lives of queer women of color (cisgender & transgender), and gender non-binary/nonconforming/variant and transgender people of color (of any orientation), and address the vital, intersecting social justice issues that concern our multiple communities
Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King 
Hasan Minhaj weaves humorous and heartbreaking anecdotes to tell his life story as an Indian-American Muslim. Topics include racism, bullying and meeting the demanding expectations of his immigrant parents.
Division of Equity and Inclusion