Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering
edited by Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline Lundquist
Fordham University Press
November 2012
424 pages

A book that grew out of a 2009 conference that received substantial support from CSWS has been published by Fordham University Press. Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering, was edited by Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline Lundquist. Adams and Lundquist were members of the CSWS research interest group Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering, which held the “Philosophical Inquiry into Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering Conference” in May 2009.

Sarah LaChance Adams graduated from the UO with a PhD in philosophy; she is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. Caroline Lundquist completed her PhD in philosophy at UO in June 2013. Adams received a 2008 CSWS Graduate Student Research Grant for her project, “Charity is a Mother: The Nature of Nurture in Maternal Ethics.”

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Food in the Field Research Interest Group: Faculty Work in Progress Series

“The visual component of food has skyrocketed in importance in our contemporary society. As Americans, we spend more time watching food shows on TV then we do eating or cooking. What are the causes, ramifications and possible futures of this turn to the visual? This paper explores the sensorial, cultural, and nutritional implications of this revolution.” — Nicola Camerlenghi is an assistant professor of art history in the UO Department of the History of Art and Architecture.

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, Food in the Field Research Interest Group

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“Eating Right: The Cultural Politics of Dietary Health”

A Public Lecture with Dr. Charlotte Biltekoff,

Dr. Charlotte Biltekoff—an assistant professor of American Studies and Food Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis—works in 20th-century American food history. Drawing on research for her forthcoming book, Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health (Duke University Press), her talk will explore

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Public Lecture: “Queer Fields, Queer Methods: Advancing an Activist Research Methodology”

Given all the critiques of queer theory and queerness that have emerged in recent years, including pronouncements of queer theory’s impending demise, what’s the good in thinking about queer methodologies now? How should those invested in queer approaches and activist research respond to the precarious status of all things queer? In this talk, Chávez will discuss these concerns and others, insisting that there’s never been a better time to do queer activist research in the interpretive social sciences and humanities.

Karma Chávez is an assistant professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research uses

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The Healing Arts Research Interest Group of CSWS cordially invites you to:

Roundtable and Public Discussion about Meditation Practices in Eugene and UO.

Participating Speakers and Topics:

• Marjorie Woollacott, Prof. of Human Physiology: “Meditation as Linking the Professional and the
• Personal. Mediation as Study in Human Physiology”
• Lisa Freinkel, Prof. of Comparative Literature and English:  ”Women and the Way: Zen, Gender and the ‘Perfection of Wisdom’”

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UO campus

A Work-in-Progress Talk

“From Mobilization to NGO: The Advances and Limits of Indigenous Evangelical Women’s Collective Action in Guatemala”
Erin Beck, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon (If you would like to participate in this work-in-progress discussion, email the author for a full copy of the paper: beck(at)uoregon.edu)

ABSTRACT: In the mid-1980s, in the face of growing conflicts within the National Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Guatemala, a group of indigenous women from various Mayan ethnolinguistic groups mobilized to counter discrimination against them within the church and provide support to their peers by forming an organization called the Fraternidad de Presbiteriales Mayas (the Fraternity). A decade later, their organization

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Speaker Mireille Miller-Young, PhD, is an associate professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Abstract

Black women’s representations and experiences as sex workers in the pornography industry are shaped by a racialized and gendered sexual commerce where stereotypes, structural inequalities, and social biases are the norm.