by | Jan 25, 2019 | Conflict Sensitive Reporting, Crossings Radio and Crossings News, Food for Thought, Intercultural and Interreligious Conflict, Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue, News, Stories
By Payton Bruni Mohammed Murshed makes rapid strokes of his paint brush as he works in his personal studio at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. He works swiftly and tirelessly as he creates eight different paintings at once, adding layers upon...
by levig@uoregon.edu | Jun 5, 2017 | Food for Thought, Stories
Story by Levi Gittleman After more than 20 hours of traveling and four airplane meals, I was ready for something sautéed from the street vendors of Jakarta, Indonesia. So our gang of six, which included some seriously talented journalism students — Andy Field, Emerson...
by emersonm@uoregon.edu | Apr 20, 2017 | Food for Thought, Stories
The Trump administration’s second attempt to exclude visitors to the United States based on their nationalities (and hence by default their religion) remains stalled in the courts, for now. But its chilling effect lingers and grows, especially for U.S. universities....
by Scott Greenstone | Nov 14, 2016 | Food for Thought, Stories
This piece by Dr. Peter Laufer was originally published in Spanish by Tiempo Argentino, the Crossings Institute’s partners in Argentina. What follows is the English translation. Read it in Spanish here. Rare is the night when the TV is switched on in our living...
by emersonm@uoregon.edu | Aug 17, 2016 | Stories
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA — “I hope you have the courage to live your own life,” the self-described “difficult old man” instructed a couple of dozen University of Oregon students and faculty gathered around him in Montevideo’s ornate Legislative...
by emersonm@uoregon.edu | Jul 19, 2016 | Stories
This op-ed by Will Johnson, an adjunct instructor of international studies at the University of Oregon, and Crossings Institute co-director Dr. Peter Laufer was originally published in The Register-Guard of Eugene, Oregon. To view the original article, click here....