News and Events
- NEWS
PBS Shines National Spotlight on ‘Classroom 4’
PBS is streaming Classroom 4, which captures the transformative Inside-Out course taught by Professor Reiko Hillyer, where students break down the walls imposed by incarceration to study, connect, and change each other.
2025-2026 Visiting Writers Series Announced
Please save the dates, spread the word, and join us in welcoming these six fine writers to our 2025-26 Visiting Writing Series. Author bios below.
The September 24th Artist-in-Residence event with Anis Mojgani will be held in Miller 105 Auditorium at 7pm and is sponsored by the Art Department.
All other events will be held in Armstrong Lounge in the Manor House at 6pm.
Gender Studies Symposium: Call for Proposals
You are invited to submit proposals for presentation at the 45th Annual Lewis & Clark College Gender Studies Symposium, March 11–13, 2026, exploring dimensions of resistance, activism, and solidarity in relation to gender and sexuality. Please review the guidelines in our Call for Proposals.
Historian Named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow
Quinn Slobodian BA ’00, an intellectual and cultural historian, has been named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, one of the nation’s most prestigious awards for creative and intellectual achievement.
History Professor Recognized for Teaching Excellence
Assistant Professor of History Nancy O. Gallman has earned a prestigious Graves Award, which recognizes excellence in teaching. The award will support her latest research project, Law’s Borderlands. The manuscript reimagines early American legal history through the lens of cultural interaction in the late-colonial South.
‘CLASSROOM 4’ Inside-Out Film Wins Best Documentary at 2025 Aspen Shortsfest
CLASSROOM 4, a documentary about Reiko Hillyer’s Inside-Out Prison Exchange class, wins Jury Award at Aspen Shortsfest. Article written by Hailey McHorse for ‘Footnotes,’ the History Department annual newsletter.
“Tren de Aragua: A Gang, Not Terrorist Invaders” by Elliott Young
LC Professor of History Elliott Young has an informative article published by The North American Congress on Latin America entitled, “Tren de Aragua: A Gang, Not Terrorist Invaders,” which examines immigrant rights and how the current administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to target Venezuelan migrants relies on a false narrative about gangs and the Venezuelan state.The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) is an independent, nonprofit organization founded in 1966 to examine and critique U.S. imperialism and political, economic, and military intervention in the Western hemisphere. In an evolving political and media landscape, we continue to work toward a world in which the nations and peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean are free from oppression, injustice, and economic and political subordination.
Elliott Young is professor of history at Lewis & Clark College and the author of “Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System.”
Reiko Hillyer, 2025 Oregon Book Award Finalist
Congratulations to Reiko Hillyer whose book A WALL IS JUST A WALL: THE PERMEABILITY OF THE PRISON IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY UNITED STATES (Duke University Press, 2024) is a finalist for the 2025 Oregon Book Awards in the category of General Nonfiction.
Marlena Williams (BA’14), 2025 Oregon Book Award Finalist
Congratulations to Marlena Williams (BA’14) whose book NIGHT MOTHER: A PERSONAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE EXORCIST (Mad Creek Books/ Ohio State University Press, 2023) is a finalist for the 2025 Oregon Book Awards in the category of Creative Nonfiction.
Niche Names L&C One of Oregon’s ‘Best Liberal Arts Colleges’
According to the 2025 Niche college rankings, Lewis & Clark is one of the best liberal arts colleges in Oregon as well as one of the state’s top performers in academics, student life, English, and history.
2024-2025 Visiting Writers Series Announced
Please save the dates, spread the word, and join the LC English Department in welcoming these five fine writers to our 2024-25 Visiting Writing Series. Bios and links to more author information below.
All five events will be held in Albany Quadrangle, Smith Hall at 6pm.
History in Action at the Southern Border
Lewis & Clark history students are putting their research skills to work for asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.
- EVENTS
62nd Annual Arthur L. Throckmorton Lecture: Kären Wigen
Entering Asia: Cartography and the Continental Scheme in Tokugawa Period Japan
In a much-discussed editorial of 1885, a leading Tokyo journal called for Japan to “leave Asia” (datsu-A). But when did the Japanese enter Asia in the first place? One way to answer this is to trace the career of continents on their maps. Introduced to the Chinese-reading world by the Jesuits, the continental scheme appears to have gained little traction in the early Qing or Chosŏn contexts, but in Japan it became a standard feature of world maps and gazetteers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Even so, its contours and contents remained notably fluid. This talk will survey the various ways Japanese geographers represented continents and conceptualized their subdivisions, highlighting the imaginative syntheses created by Buddhist cosmologists and the reworking of Matteo Ricci’s categories by popular print-makers in the later Tokugawa decades.
