2023-24 Projects
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2023-24 series of projects funded by the Global Justice Program.
Extra! Extra! Don’t Kill the Messenger – Migrating to Stay Alive (April 4-7, 2024)
Extra! Journalists continue to be murdered for their work in Mexico while their killers enjoy impunity from punishment.
Extra! Increasing numbers of journalists covering wars in Ukraine and Gaza are being killed in action.
Extra! Russian journalists are self-exiling to stay alive.
The University of Oregon-UNESCO Crossings Institute and the Global Justice Program at the University of Oregon are pleased to announce Extra! Extra! Don’t Kill the Messenger—Migrating to Stay Alive, a public program designed to improve understanding of the impact of news reporting on conflict and the impact of conflict on news reporting. The first weekend of April, 2024, the Crossings Institute will host a symposium bringing refugee journalists, writers in exile, and scholars of journalism to the Eugene UO campus for talks and workshops with the university and wider Oregon community. Threatened journalists speak. Examples of successful reporting despite extreme dangers are presented. Graphic documentation of attacks on journalists is displayed. Interludes of music and poetry stimulate contemplation, reflection, and discussion. Informal coffees, receptions and dinners afford one-to-one exchanges and connections. UO journalism students report from off-campus Oregon how the journalism crises in Mexico impacts migrant communities in Oregon and they bring their dispatches back for presentation to conferees. A student reported and written summary of the four-day event, with recommended strategies for ongoing engagement, is to be published and distributed following the conference.
“Extra! Extra! Read all about it,” newsboys of yore yelled to passersby.
Toward the 50th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War: Vietnamese Americans Contending with War and Postwar Legacies (October 27-28, 2023)
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War (April 30, 1975) this conference will explore how Vietnamese Americans contend with war and postwar legacies. Nearly fifty years ago, this day witnessed the end of the 20-year civil war in Vietnam. Although peace was restored following the deaths of 3 million Vietnamese, tragedies continued with massive waves of Vietnamese attempting to flee Vietnam. This refugee crisis, the largest in history up to then, created a diaspora of 4 million Vietnamese refugees abroad, mostly in the US. From the outside, these diasporic communities seem vibrant; yet a more careful look finds lasting physical and mental traumas, intergenerational conflicts, and fraught relationship with the host country and their former homeland. The conference is aimed at gathering academics, practitioners, and community leaders for reflections on critical issues currently facing this community as a result of war and postwar tragedies. The story of this community is relevant for similar refugee communities from war-torn countries such as Laos, Cambodia, Somalia, Syria and Afghanistan. The conference will be co-sponsored by the US Institute of Peace which has been promoting justice and reconciliation between the US and Vietnam.
Uncovering War: Photography, Cartography and Truth in Ukraine (January 24-31, 2024)
This grant will support a visit, by Maksym Rokhmaniiko, director of the Center for Spatial Technologies (CST), an innovative office based in Kyiv, Ukraine. CST has been carrying out detailed work on the historical geography of two overlapping and convergent atrocities in Ukraine separated by 80 years: the murder and mass burial of about a hundred thousand people at the site of Babyn Yar by the Nazis and USSR, and recently the Russian invasion of Ukraine and bombing of a TV tower at the same Babyn Yar site. The work, some of it done in collaboration with Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, involves detailed documentary research, cartography and visual representation, intended to counteract propaganda and reveal, as much as possible, the facts about the atrocities carried out first by the Nazis and later in the Russian quest to re-absorb Ukraine under Russian rule. The visit will include an illustrated public lecture about the documentation work and its meaning relative to the war in Ukraine and the disinformation that accompanies war, a workshop open to all students at UO, and a series of meetings and informal gatherings with interested faculty and students. Mr Rokhmaniiko, a Ukrainian national, has a professional architecture degree from the Kyiv National University of Engineering and Architecture and a research master’s degree in architecture, supported by a Fulbright grant, from the University of Oregon.
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, its effects transgressing the borders of cultural, social, political and economic realities while starkly illuminating the interdependencies of our human societies across space and place. Addressing the sources and impacts of climate change will require unprecedented levels of cooperation and conflict management across local, regional, and global levels, such as inter-governmental efforts for common actions to mitigate the global impacts of climate change under future climate change scenarios. Climate change also demands individual, collective, institutional and systemic reflections on our consumption patterns and living practices and our responsibilities to each other, to ecosystems and diverse species, and future generations. This conference will center interdisciplinary, multidimensional, and multi-scalar explorations into understanding climate change and the conflicts it both reflects and constitutes, with an emphasis on leveraging our understanding towards enacting change.
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