2016 University Wide and Public Events
events TBA
Save the Date
Friday, May 13, 2016
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2015 University Wide and Public Events
2015: PUT THIS ON THE MAP – Film Screening
film screening and reception will take place on
Thursday, May 14, 2015 from 5:30-7:30
in the College of Education Lokey Building, Room 176
2015: “The No Outsiders” Classroom
Undergraduate Symposium Project
Thursday, May 14, 2015 from 5:00-7:00
in EMU Gumwood Room
2015: Striving for Social Justice in Education – Keynote
with Dr. Kevin Kumashiro and CJ Pascoe
Friday, May 15, 2015 from 3:00-5:00
in the College of Education Hedco Building, Room 220

PUT THIS ON THE MAP
This film screening and reception will take place on
When: Thursday, May 14, 2015 from 5:30-7:30
Where: College of Education Lokey Building, Room 176
Hosted by: Doctoral candidate Ally Dean and EDST 225: Schooling and Representation in Film
Fed up with a lack of queer visibility, young people in Seattle’s eastside suburbs weave together this ground-breaking narrative of shifting identities and a quest for social change. From getting beat-up in a schoolyard to being picked up as a runaway, queer youth exercise courage and resilience daily. PUT THIS ON THE {MAP} is an intimate invitation into stories of social isolation and violence, fearlessness and liberation. Professing expertise over their experiences, queer youth provide a candid evaluation of their schools, families, and communities — moving an audience from self-reflection to action.
PUT THIS ON THE {MAP} is 35-minute documentary film directed by Megan Kennedy and Sid Jordan Peterson and produced by Revelry Media & Methods, in a collaborative process with the young people featured.
Video of The No Outsiders Classroom and Striving for Social Justice in Education talk with CJ Pascoe and Kevin Kumashiro
Undergraduate Symposium: The No Outsiders Classroom Project
Creative Work Presentation: C5 (Gumwood Room)
Copresenters: Jessica Miller, Kalynn Jaramillo, Rhue Buddendeck, Ana Osorio, Antonina Pevzner Mentors: Julia Heffernan, Education Studies;
Maure Smith‐Benanti, LGBTESSP
Major: Education Studies
What does it mean to queer the Teacher’s Desk?
Education Studies 111 focuses on issues and problems in education. As a culminating critical pedagogy activity in the fall of 2014 every discussion section for this course decorated an old school desk to represent critical themes in public education.
A single section of EDST 111 was filled entirely with LGBTQ students living in the UO Gender Inclusive Student Housing. This group maintained an academic focus on gender and sexuality studies in education. The LGBTQ cohort professor was the director of the master’s degrees and licensure program in teacher education. The cohort itself was designed as a disruption of heteronormativity in teacher education. Along with critical pedagogy readings the LGBTQ cohort was assigned the concept of reimagining the teacher desk. At the end of the term these students were given the actual “Teacher’s Desk” to paint in an act of reclaiming the classroom.
Of particular importance to the project are the following statistics:
74% of queer students are verbally harassed at school
61% of queer students report school based harassment get no relief
Queer students are three times as likely to miss school on a monthly basis
Queer students have lower grade point averages than their peers
Queer students are twice as likely to not plan to pursue post‐secondary education
This work has been displayed at the College of Education.

Striving for Social Justice in Education
With Kevin Kumashiro and CJ Pascoe will take place on
When: Friday, May 15 from 3:00-5:00
Where: College of Education Hedco Building, Room 220
Dr. Kevin Kumashiro is the Dean of the College of Education at San Francisco State University Founder of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education, Former President of National Association for Multicultural Education, and award winning author of 10 books on Social Justice and Education.
CJ Pascoe is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. She is also the chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Sex and Gender. She teaches courses on sexuality, social psychology, deviance, gender and education. Her current research focuses on gender, youth, homophobia, sexuality and new media. Her book, Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, won the American Educational Research Association’s 2007 Book of the Year Award as well as an honorable mention for the ASA’s section on Sex and Gender’s Distinguished Book Award.