Public Events* - 2008-09 Democracy and Citizenship in the 21st Century
*All events are free and open to the public.
April 17 & 18, 2009
Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century
Symposium
Friday, April 17, 2009
175 Knight Law Center
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
110 Knight Law Center
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
A two-day symposium organized by Dan HoSang, 2008-09 Wayne Morse Resident Scholar. Presentations by Michael Omi (Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California-Berkeley) and Howard Winant (Professor of Sociology, University of
California-Santa Barbara). Sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and the UO Department of Political Science. For more information and symposium agenda visit www.waynemorsecenter.uoregon.edu/Racial_Formation_09/home.html.
May 6, 2009
“Eloquence and Reason: Creating a First Amendment Culture”
Book release and signing
Rob Tsai, Associate Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law at American University. Cosponsored by the American Constitution Society. Comments by Dean Margie Paris, Professor Jim O'Fallon, and Professor Joe Lowndes.
Yale University Press
Browsing Room, UO Knight Library
4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Robert Tsai explains that the guarantees of the First Amendment have become part of a governing culture and nationwide priority. Examining the rhetorical tactics of activists, presidents, and lawyers, he illustrates how committed citizens seek to promote or destabilize a convergence in constitutional ideas. Eloquence and Reason reveals the social and institutional processes through which foundational ideas are generated and defends a cultural role for the courts.
Robert L. Tsai began his academic career at the University of Oregon, where he received the university's Lorry I. Lokey Award for exemplary interdisciplinary scholarship and the law school's Orlando J. Hollis Teaching Award. His papers have twice been selected for the Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum: once in constitutional theory and once in constitutional history. Professor Tsai joined the law faculty of American University in 2008.
May 7, 2009
Contested Citizenships Symposium
For more info visit the website for the
two day schedule
Symposium organized by 2008-9 Wayne Morse Center's Resident Scholar, Michelle McKinley.
Keynote address entitled “Immigration, Citizenship and the Concept of Space” will given by Leti Volpp, Professor of Law at UC Berkeley with comments from Linda Bosniak, Rutgers University. This event is cosponsored by the UO School of Law.
110 Knight Law Center
4:30 p.m.
Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
1221 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1221
Phone: (541) 346-3700, Fax: (541) 346-1564
