330 Hendricks Hall
Jane Grant Room
UO campus

FITF Works-in-Progress Series

“Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes”

Abstract: Professor Thorsson will be discussing her work in progress, “Revolutionary Recipes: Foodways and African American Literature.” “Revolutionary Recipes” argues that a group of African American poems, novels, and cookbooks construct race, gender, and class through culinary discourse. Thorsson’s talk will draw from “Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes,” the initial chapter of this project in which she seeks to establish a scholarly understanding of foodways through the writings of Vertamae Grosvenor, author of the 1970 cookbook Vibration Cooking: Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl.

Courtney Thorsson is an assistant professor in the Department of English at University of Oregon and a CSWS faculty affiliate. Sponsored by the Food in the Field Research Interest Group, UO Center for the Study of Women in Society.

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Jane Grant Room
330 Hendricks Hall
1408 University St.
UO campus

“Technology, Gender and Education for Development: The One Laptop Per Child Project in Ghana”

Leslie Steeves, Professor, UO School of Journalism and Communication, will talk about her research and show a clip from her documentary-in-progress.

UO graduate teaching fellow accepted into Chicago comics program

May 15, 2012—“Mara Williams has been drawing her entire life. The graduate teaching fellow in the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication is a self-described, consummate scribbler and doodler.” Read more….

“Filling Out Application,” or, “My Life on the Internet” copyright by Mara Williams.

UO graduate student Mara Williams has been accepted at the Mistress level to the Adventure School for Ladies: Comics Intensive, a residential program focused on increasing diversity in the comics industry. Mara is only one of two artists accepted at the Mistress level. The program runs in Chicago from June 4- 17, 2012.

Williams is an illustrator, zinester, and third-year PhD student in Communication and Society, through the School of Journalism and Communications at the University of Oregon. Recent academic projects include studies of post-feminist and post-racist logics in online fandom, open source online archives, and queer religious blogs. She is also active in Fembot, a special project of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society. continue reading….

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May 9, 2012—Whether she is documenting the deadly effects of open-fire cooking and heating on children and women in Mayan homes in highland Guatemala, rescuing the history of indigenous women in Mexico, or writing about the geographical expansion and institutional growth of the Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica, UO associate professor and documentary filmmaker Gabriela Martínez (SOJC) carries out her work with a mixture of heart, intelligence, and skill that brings life and gravitas to the product. Co-creator with Lynn Stephen (Anthropology) in 2010-11 of the Latino Roots class, which culminated in the making of 18 oral history documentaries by UO students, Martínez has spent her 2011-12 sabbatical year in part by documenting historical atrocities from Guatemala’s civil war and conducting research for a book about the political economy of collective memory.

Soon she will be taking on a new post with the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society. In making the announcement, CSWS director Carol Stabile said: “Gabriela is a fantastic colleague, collaborator, scholar, and documentary-maker. I am delighted that she will be joining CSWS in the fall as associate director.” continue reading….

(l to r): Nara Milanich; Nicole von Germeten; Russ Tomlin; Kris Lane; Michelle McKinley; Law School dean Michael Moffitt; Rachel O'Toole; and Elizabeth Kuznesof (photo by E. Hoffman).

May 4, 2012—Dozens of faculty members, administrators, visiting scholars, and students participated in a roundtable organized by law professor Michelle McKinley and held at the UO Knight Library on May 4. “Dangerous Dependencies: Domestic Slavery and Servitude in the Americas” featured the research of scholars who specialize in Latin American studies across disciplines.

Scholars came from New York City, New Orleans, southern California, Kansas, Corvallis and Eugene to present papers and discuss research ranging from historical legal research on cooperative sorcery and conflict to modern day domestic service of children and women in Latin America. UO senior vice provost for academic affairs Russ Tomlin raised profound and pertinent questions in his opening remarks: “How do women retain dignity in the face of servitude? Why do good people impose servitude?” continue reading….