Goal One: Create an Inclusive and Welcoming Environment for All
Folklore and Public Culture regularly brings lecturers to campus who specifically focus on issues of equity and inclusion in their work or are engaging in scholarship that reinforces the importance of equity and inclusion in those fields associated with Folklore and Public Culture.
2017-18 List of Folklore Guest Speakers:
Folklore Initiated
Nov 9, 2017 Jodi Wile, Film Screening - "The Source Family: Gender and Representation in a 70s Occult Commune"
Jan 24, 2018 Lisa Gilman, Film Screening – “Grounds for Resistance, ” A documentary about Coffee Strong and the anti-war activism of U.S. veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars: and Andrew McLaughlin Film Screening – “Veterans Speak: Identify Community, Resistance, Disruption”
May 8, 2018 A Book Discussion with Charlie McNabb, Author of
“Nonbinary Gender Identities”
Folklore Co-Sponsored
2017-18 SOMD World Music Series
Apr 9, 2018 SOMD Dema 2018 week-long events
Oct 1, 2018 CLLAS’ events for Latinx Heritage Month, filmmaker Peter Bratt for the screening of his film Dolores (about Chicana activist Dolores Huerta).
Goal Two: Increase the representation of diverse students, faculty, staff, and community partners at all levels of the university.
Folklore and Public Culture is benefitting from the implicit bias training required of search committee members at the UO because of the number of Folklore faculty on search committees.
Each year, the Graduate School sends the Folklore and Public Culture Program a national list of McNair scholars participants and National Name Exchange Participants. The lists include participants from each program who indicated an interest in a topic area matching our program’s area expertise. These materials are used in recruiting efforts towards admitting a diverse incoming class of graduate students. The students on these lists qualify for Graduate School Application fee waivers.
Goal Three: Facilitate access to achievement, success, and recognition for underrepresented students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
Through a competitive process, Folklore and Public Culture is offering two 500.00 awards (1 faculty / 1 student) for initiatives that advance equity and inclusion within the Folklore and Public Culture Program and in the fields associated with Folklore and Public Culture.