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Reinventing Synergia: The Journal of Gender Thought and Expression

Synergia, a campus publication of poetry, prose, visual art, and essays related to Gender Studies, with submissions from students, faculty, and staff alike, is being re-established after a five-year absence.

February 26, 2024

The Gender Studies program is proud to announce the revitalization of the student publication Synergia: The Journal of Gender Thought and Expression. Synergia, from the Greek synergos, refers to a combined action/operation such that the total cooperative effort is greater than the sum of the individual effects–working together.

Part of this project has been creating a searchable digital collection of the full run of all 29 printed issues, dating back to 1991. Thanks to the bold vision and dedication of McKenna Jones, L&C ’24, the Synergia digital collection is now part of the Watzek Library Special Collections.

The new Synergia editors have been hard at work organizing a new board and collecting submissions for the first new issue since 2019. Copies of the 2023-24 printed issue will be available at the 43rd Annual Gender Studies Symposium (March 6-8), with a special celebration of this year’s publication on March 7.

For more information on how to get involved, contact synergia@lclark.edu.

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.

Watzek Arts Friday

Students in the course “Gender and Aesthetic Expression” share their takes on visual culture, 50+ years after the publication of John Berger’s influential Ways of Seeing.

Beyond Divisions

21st Annual Ray Warren Symposium Explores the Concept of Borders

This year’s Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies, held November 13-15, is titled On the Border. It will examine the different borders we experience, the role of borders in our lives, and the relationship between borders and ideas of race and ethnicity.

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.