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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.

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Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
Coquille & Metolius
River Rooms
Free & Open to the Public

A Lecture by Frances Bronet
Professor and Dean
UO School of Architecture and Allied Arts

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society. RSVP by May 22 to csws(at)uoregon.edu for a boxed lunch.

Room 101 (Auditorium)
Jaqua Center
1615 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus

Dorothy Roberts will present a talk based on her groundbreaking book, Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (New Press, 2011) Roberts examines how the myth of a biological concept of race—revived by purportedly cutting-edge science, race-specific drugs, genetic testing, and DNA databases—continues to undermine a just society and promote inequality in a supposedly “post-racial” era.

Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, joined the University of Pennsylvania in 2012 as its 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and the Law School where she also holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander chair.

Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus

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

HEDCO Education Building
Rm. 144
1655 Alder St.

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’”

“Do not sterilize our women” (Czech Republic, 2008).

204 Condon
1321 Kincaid
UO campus

Department of Anthropology Colloquium

Romani (Gypsy) Women and Activism: Challenges and Opportunities

Professor Angela Kocze is a visiting Fulbright Fellow in Women’s and Gender Studies at Wake Forest University. She holds a PhD in anthropology (2011) from Central European University.

Roma, Europe’s largest minority and its historic “other,” face growing prejudice, harassment and violence, plus the rise of xenophobic political parties. In the wake of the post-communist transition, identity-based Romani politics emerged at the international, national and local levels, which created specific strategies of ethnic, gender and class mobilization. Women played an important role in theorizing discrimination both within and outside Romani society. This presentation explores the development of women’s activism in reference to multiple racialized oppressive regimes. Prof. Kocze brings years of experience as activist and a scholar.

Jane Grant Room
330 Hendricks Hall
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