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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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Center for the Study of Women in Society film and panel discussion addresses the abstinence conversation | Oregon Daily Emerald.

Screening w/ Q & A discussion
177 Lawrence Hall, 1190 Franklin Blvd.
UO campus

Veterans for Peace, Chapter 159 and Truth in Recruiting/Community Alliance of Lane County presents the film The Invisible War. Military sexual trauma has been the U.S. Military’s dirty little secret, carefully researched and thoughtfully presented in the film. Through veteran stories, exposure of high ranking military and Congressional inaction, this systemic epidemic, which protects perpetrators, is revealed.

Hosts Carol Van Houten (TIR) and Shelley Corteville (VFP 159) have been working to bring public awareness and political change to the military system that allows for and even encourages military sexual trauma.

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.”

Lawrence 177
1190 Franklin Blvd.
UO campus

In conjunction with Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Screening & moderated discussion: Telling Amy’s Story. This documentary film is hosted by actress and activist Mariska Hargitay and told by detective Deirdri Fishel. Telling Amy’s Story follows the timeline of a domestic violence homicide that occurred on November 8, 2001.

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Social Sciences Feminist Network (SSFN) Research Interest Group.

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Screening & moderated discussion
177 Lawrence Hall
1190 Franklin Blvd.

The Purity Myth: The Virginity Movement’s War Against Women

A panel of noted scholars and activists will discuss “The War on Women” in a public forum following a screening of The Purity Myth. In this video adaptation of her bestselling book, pioneering feminist blogger Jessica Valenti trains her sights on “the virginity movement” — an unholy alliance of evangelical Christians, right-wing politicians, and conservative policy intellectuals who have been exploiting irrational fears about women’s sexuality to roll back women’s rights. From dad-and-daughter “purity balls,” taxpayer-funded abstinence-only curricula, and political attacks on Planned Parenthood, to recent attempts by legislators to de-fund women’s reproductive health care and narrow the legal definition of rape, Valenti identifies a single, unifying assumption: the myth that the worth of a woman depends on what she does — or does not do — sexually. In the end, Valenti argues that the health and well-being of women are too important to be left to ideologues bent on vilifying feminism and undermining women’s autonomy.

The panel will include activist Kamala Shugar (board chair, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon) and UO professors April Haynes (History); Priscilla Yamin (Political Science); and Peter Laufer (SOJC).

June 13, 2011—The Christian Science Monitor: Bollywood’s global push.

The Christian Science Monitor contacted Sangita Gopal, UO associate professor of English and a Bollywood expert, for a feature article on India’s prolific film industry.

“Sangita Gopal attributes the enduring popularity of Indian films abroad to the extravagant song-and-dance sequences that don’t require viewers to understand the language in order to enjoy them. But the [co-editor] of Global Bollywood says it goes beyond that. ‘On one level they are utterly commercial, but they also probe themes … that are incredibly resonant in societies battling between tradition and modernity’ – themes such as class, family, and interreligious conflict. ‘These films often take up the question of how to live with people who are different from you.’”

Gopal is a CSWS faculty affiliate. Her book Conjugatons: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema, is due out in fall 2011 from the University of Chicago Press. An interview with Professor Gopal will appear in the 2011 CSWS Annual Review, due out October 1.