The Ice Cream Sellers (75”) tells the story of two little siblings and the genocide survivors of the Rohingya community who fled from Myanmar into Bangladesh after a brutal genocide. While most of the Rohingya people were exhausted from the weight of their trauma, the two siblings began their new life with hard work, selling cheap ice-cream door to door in the world´s largest refugee camp in a desperate attempt to earn enough money to bribe officials for the release of their father from prison in Myanmar.

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 @ 5 PM – JSMA Ford Lecture Hall 2

Please join us for a book talk and reception with Associate Professor Krystale Littlejohn.

3–5 PM Friday, April 21, 2023 Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincade Street.

Alumni and friends of UO Sociology please join us at Sam’s Tavern in downtown Bellevue on Friday March 31, 4:30-7:30pm.

Happy hour drinks, sliders (vegetarian and meat) and bottomless fries on us.

Just a few blocks from the Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting at the Hyatt Regency in Bellevue (Seattle’s Eastside).  https://samstavernseattle.com/sams_location/bellevue/

Please join us for the Winter Sociology Colloquium Series. Colloquium will be in 714PLC. All talks are 12-1PM.

January 20, 2023

Amanda Sikirica

Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, University of Oregon

Multiple Dimensions of Inequality and Decoupling Economic Growth and Emissions: An Eco-Intersectional Approach

February 17, 2023

Emily Kennedy

Associate Professor, Sociology, University of British Columbia

Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring about the Environment

March 3, 2023

Rosa Acevedo

Ph.D. Candidate, Philosophy, University of Oregon

Questioning the British-American centric and late modern origins of antiblack racism

March 10, 2023

Kerry Ard

Associate Professor, Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, Ohio State University

TBA

TOTEM POLE JOURNEY AT UNIVERSITY OF OREGON OVERVIEW

Snake River to the Salish Sea — Spirit of the Waters Totem Pole Journey at the University of Oregon

May 5^th – 9^th, 2022

The University of Oregon welcomes Se’Si’Le, House of Tears Carvers, and The Natural History Museum for a series of events May 5th through 8th.

The Totem Pole Journey, led by Lummi carvers and organizers, brings together ceremony, art, science, spirituality, ancestral knowledge, and cross-cultural collaboration in support of the movement to remove the Snake River dams and restore to health the Snake River salmon and the orcas that depend on them.

Whale People: Protectors of the Sea is an outdoor exhibition featuring a 3,000 pound orca pole, salmon carvings, and an award-winning IMAX-style film projection that tells the story of today’s environmental emergency through the figure of the orca.

Events at the University of Oregon

Science in Ceremony Colloquium

Thursday, May 5th, 2:00 – 4:00 pm

EMU Gumwood Room

Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy

Art, Activism, and Ceremony 

Lunchtime presentation – Boxed lunches provided

Friday, May 6th, 12:00 – 1:30 pm

EMU Ballroom

Whale People and Totem Pole Exhibit and IMAX-Style Film Screenings

Friday, May 6th and Saturday, May 7th, 7:30 – 9:30 pm

EMU Green

Additional events are being planned for the weekend. For updates, please sign up via this link. For media inquiries or more information, please email tpjuo2022@gmail.com.

Partners

Se’Si’Le, Lummi Nation House of Tears Carvers, The Natural History Museum, UO Student Sustainability Center, Center for Environmental Futures, UO Philosophy Department, UO Environmental Studies Program, UO Native American Student Union, UO Many Nations Longhouse

For current event details and an updated list of sponsors, please visit https://cef.uoregon.edu/totem-pole-journey/

The Department of Sociology proudly hosts this year’s Wayne Morse Chair, Sarita Gupta, vice president of the Ford Foundation and 2021-22 Wayne Morse Chair

Wednesday, March 30, 5-6:30 p.m.
Redwood Auditorium, 214 Erb Memorial Union

This event is free and open to the public; a livestream of the talk will also be available

What will labor organizing look like in the future? Sarita Gupta answers this question by describing not only how working people can improve their wages and working conditions, but how they can exert real power over many more aspects of their lives. Gupta will consider the central role that collective bargaining must play in the renewal of diverse communities and our democracy.

As vice president of the Ford Foundation, Gupta oversees all US programs. She has deep expertise in policy advocacy, organizing, and building partnerships across the workers’ rights and care movements, having served as the executive director of Jobs With Justice and codirector of Caring Across Generations. A nationally recognized expert on the economic, labor, and political issues affecting working people, Gupta is widely acknowledged as a key leader and strategist in the progressive movement.

This event is part of the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics 2021-23 theme, Making Work Work. It is cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society.

“Unintended Consequences of Energy Transitions”

Monday, February 14, 3:30-5:00

Location: Zoom link

Leigh Johnson, Assistant Professor, Geography
Richard York, Professor, Sociology and Environmental Studies

Abstract: Transitioning away from fossil fuels requires the production of energy from non-fossil sources. However, quantitative analyses and historical assessments of previous shifts in energy use indicate that the expansion of non-fossil energy sources – in the absence of direct efforts to suppress fossil fuel extraction and challenge the power of the fossil fuel industry – may not appreciably contribute to a decline in fossil fuel use and may have a variety of unintended consequences. These analyses suggest that a full energy transition to cleaner energy sources requires not only technological developments but changes in economic structures and political power relationships.

Leigh Johnson is a human geographer focusing on the intersection of disaster and climate risk, vulnerability, labor, and finance. Her research investigates how configurations of public and private sector actors and financial arrangements shape disaster vulnerability and influence people’s everyday socioecological reproduction.

Richard York is an environmental sociologist whose work combines human ecology and political economy.  He is both a theorist and an empirical researcher, who primarily uses quantitative methods. One focus of his research is on how the structural characteristics of societies, including demographic, economic, and technological factors, influence levels of resource consumption and pollution emissions.

More information about the CAS Interdisciplinary Talk series is available here.