Browsing Room
Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.

T.L. Taylor is an associate professor of  Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the co-author of Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method (with T. Boellstorff, B. Nardi, and C. Pearce; Princeton University Press, 2012), and the author of  Raising the Stakes: E-sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming (The MIT Press, 2012) and Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture (The MIT Press, 2006).

“Athletes, Geeks, and Gamers : Exploring Gender and Professional E-sports”

While we have a growing, and important, body of literature looking at women and girls in relation to gender and gaming, very little has been written that seeks to understand how boys and men are traversing the terrain. 

Collier House
Free Admission
UO campus

UO School of Music and Dance: A Presentation by the THEME Colloquium

Joan Morgan is an award-winning journalist and author, as well as a provocative cultural critic. A pioneering hip-hop journalist, she began her professional writing career freelancing for The Village Voice. She is the author of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost, and her work has also appeared in MS., More, Interview, Working Mother, and GIANT.  A former staffer at both Vibe and Spin, she was asked in January 2000 to join the Essence staff, where she served as executive editor.

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330 Hendricks Hall
Jane Grant Conference Room
1408 University St., UO campus
Free & open to the public

“This talk examines the neuroscientific turn across the humanities, and in relationship to art history in particular. I explore new media artist Mariko Mori’s (b. 1967, Japan) multimedia installation ‘Wave UFO’ as a provocative entry into debates about the increasing influence of the brain sciences.”

— Kate Mondloch is associate professor and director of graduate studies at the UO Department of the History of Art and Architecture. Mondloch, a CSWS faculty affiliate, received a 2010 CSWS Faculty Research Grant in support of her research.

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100 Willamette Hall
1371 E. 13th
Free & open to the public

CSWS Film Series will screen: Bi the Way

Screening and Moderated Discussion

Journeying through the changing sexual landscape of America, the directors of Bi the Way investigate the latest scientific reports and social opinions on bisexuality, while following five members of the emerging “whatever generation”—teens and twenty-somethings who seem to be ushering in a whole new sexual revolution.

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Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid
UO campus

A Talk by Timothy Miller, University of Kansas

Timothy Miller, professor of religious studies at the University of Kansas and author of the newly released Encyclopedic Guide to American Intentional Communities, will examine intentional communities in Oregon, including lesbian land communities featured in the West of Center exhibit at the UO’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Miller will also discuss Jim Kopp’s research efforts to uncover and preserve this important history.

Many Nations Longhouse
1630 Columbia Street
UO campus

Pioneer Mother: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Public Monuments in the U.S. West

Dr. Brenda Frink, Research Associate, The Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, will lecture on “Pioneer Mother: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Public Monuments in the U.S. West.” The Pioneer Mother monument has been part of the UO campus since 1932. 

A Pedagogical Case Study of the Keynote-Speaker Controversy at Oregon State University’s Modern Sex Conference
by Lacey Mamak, MLIS, February 2012

http://csws.uoregon.edu/wp-content/docs/Misc/TaorminoOSU_casestudydistro.pdf

Abstract