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CSWS Road Scholars’ Presentation Grants for Graduate Students
The National Women’s History Project has selected the theme “Writing Women Back Into History” for 2010. In recognition of this theme, and in support of the continued work of women’s history, CSWS’s Road Scholars Program is organizing a series of talks that will be made available to Eugene public schools and other public venues for Women’s History Month (March 2010).
CSWS will make awards of $200 each for presentations by graduate students that address some aspect of this broad theme. Presentations that situate women’s history in relation to race, ethnicity, class, or ability, or in an international context, are strongly encouraged. These 20–30 minute presentations need to be accessible to a very general audience, likely to be middle or high school students.
Those graduate students who receive awards will be expected to be available to give their presentation once (and no more than twice) in public venues to be organized by CSWS.
To apply, graduate students must submit the following by 10/7/09:
- Curriculum vitae
- 500 word abstract describing the proposed presentation
- Sample bibliography
Drop application materials by our office or send them to: CSWS 340 Hendricks Hall University of Oregon Eugene OR 97403-1201
For more information, email: csws@uoregon.edu
Selected students will be asked to present their proposal to a CSWS committee before 11/1/09.
Changing Images of Japanese Workingwomen
Actress Amami Yuki (left) accepts an award for helping to popularize “Ara-fo.”
by Alisa Freedman, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature and Film
Editor’s Note: In 2009, Professor Freedman received a CSWS Faculty Research Grant of nearly $4,000 to support her research in Japan. On October 28, she will offer a CSWS Noon Talk in the Jane Grant Room, Hendricks Hall, to discuss her research.
Thanks to the help of a CSWS grant, I spent the summer in Tokyo, conducting research for my books on changing images of workingwomen on Japanese television, Modern Girls in Motion: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan, and Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road. In general, my interdisciplinary work explores how the city shapes culture and psychology, giving rise to gender roles that characterize Japan. My research takes two forms. The first involves analyzing stories—those told in literature, television, journalism, cinema, and other popular media—that capture Japanese women’s experiences in a creative and thought-provoking way. The second entails wandering Tokyo to observe patterns of daily life and dominant trends and pondering the reasons behind them.