Friday, April 26 to Sunday, April 28, 2024
Oregon State University, Memorial Union 109

Colorful woven and beaded jewelry takes a double helix form

The Cascadia Seminar is an experiment in creating a dedicated intellectual space for medical anthropology. The Cascadia Seminar is a small, intimate, high-interest, low-cost weekend conference organized collaboratively by medical anthropologists on faculty at a number of different universities and colleges in the US Pacific Northwest and British Columbia (the Cascadia region). Oregon State had been planning to host the sixth seminar in 2021, when the Covid pandemic delayed these plans. Three years later, with Covid still among us, we will at last gather a small group of medical anthropologists at Oregon State to discuss our research projects and revitalize our community.

Keynote discussion on ‘Research & Reproductive Equity’ led by Dr. Missy Cheyney & the Uplift Laboratory.

Draft Program 

Click here for the preliminary version of the program.

Registration/Ticketing

Click here to register.

Note: Registration is required of all participants-- this will help us to keep numbers manageable. Registration to the conference is free to those who have no institutional support. If you do have professional development funding to draw upon, please help us by making a sustaining ($100) or rebalancing ($200) contribution--we expect that we will put it toward meals/catering. 

*Important* 

Once you have registered, please send a copy of your confirmation to cascadiaseminar2024@gmail.com. We do not have direct access to the registration portal, so your email is how we will track your registration. Once we receive your confirmation we will respond with discount codes for local hotels and an editable document where attendees can self-coordinate travel and lodging attendance logistics (carpooling, hotel share, etc.). 

Registration will close on April 17th. 

Access

We’re committed to hosting an accessible seminar, with an emphasis on in-person networking. Please reach out to us to learn about the access supports and disability services that we can offer.

Presenters: 

  • Bring your presentation materials on a portable USB drive and a few print copies, including a large-print copy (17-pt. font or larger). Be prepared to make materials available to audience members if needed for accessibility purposes.
  • If showing slides, use a high contrast color scheme and sans-serif font.
  • If playing video, please include captioning.
  • Provide audio description of images, charts, and other visuals used in your presentation.

Everyone: 

  • There will be microphones in the room and we will ask everyone who speaks to use a microphone.
  • We will have gender neutral restrooms available and marked.
  • The conference is wheelchair accessible. You may view images of the event space in the OSU Memorial Union. The conference will be held in the MU Horizon Room and Lounges, which are accessible via the MU’s North entrance (across the MU Quad). See here for ADA parking. 
  • Lounge space will be available as a resting area. The Memorial Union also has a lactation room with a private bathroom and we can help you access a fridge/microwave for storing and/or warming milk or formula.
  • Avoid wearing scented products at seminar events.
  • Covid is harmful and masks are welcome! 

Travel to/from the Memorial Union 

Free buses run through Corvallis, with a decent app for tracking buses and their schedules in real time. See here. If you’re traveling by car, parking at Oregon State is free after 5pm and on the weekends. If you plan to attend the pre-conference workshop and to park on campus, you will need to buy a virtual parking permit, which you can do online here. See the parking map here. (Note: over the weekend we recommend parking in one of the lots along Monroe, since baseball will be happening on the south side of campus.)

Travel to/from Corvallis 

  • Train: Corvallis is roughly 30 minutes from the Albany train stop, which is served by the Amtrak Coast Starlight Train route. 
  • Plane: Corvallis is served by two airports: PDX in Portland and EUG in Eugene. The Groome Shuttle runs on a regular schedule between both airports. Also look into the Flixbus for cheaper routes between Corvallis and PDX. 
  • Car: When you send us your registration we’ll send a link to a google doc where you can self-organize carpooling up and down the coast. 
  • Note, we are just an hour from the ocean and two hours from mountain snow, with a lot of vineyards and breweries and hiking trails surrounding us. If you plan to stay longer and want tips on things to see while you are here, just let us know.

Land Acknowledgement

Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, is located within the traditional homelands of the Marys River or Ampinefu Band of Kalapuya. Following the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855, Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to reservations in Western Oregon. Today, living descendants of these people are a part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (grandronde.org) and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians (ctsi.nsn.us). For more on Land Acknowledgements, see here.

 

The 2024 Cascadia Committee includes Betsey Brada (Reed College), Susan Erikson (Simon Fraser),
Vinay Kamat (UBC), Laura Meek (UBC), & Emily Yates-Doerr (Oregon State)

Graduate representatives Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes (Oregon State), Christopher Cosby (Oregon State), Iveoma Udevi-Aruevoru
(Simon Fraser University), and Olivia Brophy (University of British Columbia) have done significant visioning and planning behind the scenes. 

Sponsored by Oregon State’s School of Language Culture & Society, Anthropology Program,
and the OSU Center for the Humanities, with considerable support from Simon Fraser University.