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The Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, Robert D. Clark Honors College, and the UO Libraries
Special Collections and University Archives

As part of the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s 40th Anniversary Celebration, and as a way of honoring the role that Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) played in the founding of CSWS, we are collaborating with the University of Oregon Knight Library and the Robert D. Clark Honors College (CHC) to create the Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. (Guidelines PDF)

Purpose: The intention of the Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship is to encourage research within collections in the area of feminist science fiction. continue reading….

Researcher studies ‘narco narratives’ in Juárez | AroundtheO

This story features the research of Claudia Holguín Mendoza, an assistant professor of romance languages (Spanish) and a CSWS faculty affiliate.

Development Challenges Confronting Pakistan
edited by Anita M. Weiss and Saba Gul Khattak
Kumarian Press
(2013)
280 pages

Publisher’s Synopsis

Anita Weiss is professor and head, UO Department of International Studies, and is a long-time CSWS faculty affiliate. She held a month-long Residency at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy, in February 2013 and was recently named a winner of a 2013-14 UO Fund for Faculty Excellence Award.

Celebrating Ursula Le Guin—on Campus, on the Portland Stage | The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon

June 1, 2013—The Fembot Collective is delighted to announce the second issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology! This issue, “Feminist Game Studies,” is edited by Nina Huntemann (Suffolk University) and features articles by Audrey Anable (University of Toronto), Kishonna L. Gray (Eastern Kentucky University), and Alex Layne & Samantha Blackmon (Purdue University), Adrienne Shaw (Temple University), John Vanderhoef (University of California Santa Barbara), and Jordon Youngblood (University of Florida). The articles cover a range of current intersections in game studies and gender and technology. We invite you to read the articles at http://adanewmedia.org/. continue reading….

Janis Weeks, a CSWS faculty affiliate and  professor in the UO Department of Biology, Institute of Neuroscience, and African Studies Program, is the first UO researcher to be awarded a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. UO was named a winner of a Grand Challenges Explorations grant for a project proposed by Weeks that “involves the implementation of a neurophysiology-based technology to accelerate discovery of drugs to eliminate intestinal worm infections, specifically human soil-transmitted helminthic infections,” which are carried by two to three billion of the world’s poorest people. For more about this story, go to UO receives Grand Challenges Explorations Grant.

Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels
a new book by Courtney Thorsson

Courtney Thorsson is an assistant professor of English at the University of Oregon and a CSWS faculty affiliate. Her book, published by the University of Virginia Press in June 2013, is now available from the publisher and other outlets. The publisher is offering a discount through November 15.

From the publisher

“In Women’s Work, Courtney Thorsson reconsiders the gender, genre, and geography of African American nationalism as she explores the aesthetic history of African American writing by women. continue reading….