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Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic and writer Margo Jefferson discusses her book On Michael Jackson and her memoir Negroland. Her memoir recounts her memories of coming of age among the midcentury Negro elite in Chicago. Jefferson talks about how ideals of black respectability impacted the ways young black women thought about and treated their bodies and appearance. Jefferson gave lectures titled "From 'I' to 'We': The Role of the Citizen-Critic" at the University of Oregon in Eugene and Portland on May 30th and 31st, 2018 as the Oregon Humanities Center's 2017-18 Kritikos Lecturer in the Humanities.

May 30, 2018. Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic and writer Margo Jefferson gives the 2017-18 Kritikos Lecture in the Humanities, part of the "We the People" series. Jefferson is the author of Negroland: A Memoir.

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Andre Dubus III, discusses how writing saved him from a violent and self-destructive path as a young man. He reads from his recent collection Dirty Love and talks about imagination and creativity. Dubus's forthcoming novel Gone So Long will be published in October 2018. He gave a reading at the UO on May 10, 2018 as a guest of the Creative Writing Program.

Margaret Hiza Redsteer is a research scientist focused on geology, landscape ecology, water quality, climate change and its impacts on Native American communities, and tracking these impacts using local and traditional knowledge. She discusses how climate change is impacting the Navajo Nation. Redsteer was a keynote speaker for the Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples Lecture on May 9th, 2018, the opening event of the Environmental Justice, Race, and Public Lands Symposium held at the UO May 9-11, 2018.

Jason Josephson-Storm is Chair and Associate Professor of Religion at Williams College. He discusses his research interests in East Asian religions and philosophy; European intellectual history; and theories of religion, philosophy, and sociology. Josephson-Storm gave a talk based on his book The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of Human Sciences at the UO on May 3, 2018 as a guest of the Department of Religious Studies.

Sarah Wald, associate professor of English and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon, discusses her book The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming Since the Dust Bowl. Wald also talks about the significance of the Environmental Humanities and Food Studies. She describes the "Environmental Justice, Race, and Public Lands" symposium, which will be held May 9-11, 2018 at the UO.

Poet Mary Jo Salter discusses and reads from her latest collection The Surveyors. Salter is a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and a professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. On April 19th, 2018, Salter gave a reading as a guest of the UO's Creative Writing Program.

Fiction writer Danielle Evans, winner of the 2011 National Book Foundation's 5 under 35 honor, discusses her writing and reads from her short story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. The book won the 2011 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Evans talks about how she develops the voice and complexity of her characters. She gave a reading at the UO on April 12, 2018 as a guest of the English Department, with support from the Oregon Humanities Center's Coleman-Guitteau Professorship.

Anna Brady, a third-year law student at the University of Oregon, discusses her work with Utah Diné Bikéyah, a Native American organization that developed the proposal for the now-threatened Bears Ears National Monument.