Presented by the CSWS Women of Color Project: Centering Intersectionality

Ernesto Martínez

330 Hendricks Hall, Jane Grant Conference Room

This book proposal workshop features Ernesto Martínez’s book, Queer Race Narratives: On the Practice and Politics of Intelligibility. Ernesto Martínez is an assistant professor in the UO Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. His book-in-progress, Queer Race Narratives, “turns to the literature and cultural production of gays and lesbians of color in the United States in order to answer some important questions in contemporary social theory regarding the nature of knowledge acquisition and knowledge production in oppressive contexts. Specifically, this book traces discourses of intelligibility, recurring preoccupations with the labor of making sense of oneself and of making sense to others in contexts of intense ideological violence and interpersonal conflict.”

Lynn Fujiwara

CSWS was awarded a Ford Foundation grant in March 2008 from the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW). “Diversifying the Leadership of Women’s Research Centers,” was meant to promote the leadership of women of color from historically underrepresented groups in the United States within NCRW and within its women’s research, policy, and advocacy member centers. CSWS and the UO Office of the Vice President for Research provided matching funds.

Lamia Karim

Originally formed as a CSWS Research Interest Group, Women of Color has now emerged as a CSWS project under the leadership of Lynn Fujiwara and Lamia Karim. Fujiwara is an associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies. Karim, recently tenured associate professor of anthropology, received CSWS support for her work on feminist legal reform in Bangladesh.

“The project specifically designed for CSWS was to address the current and historical absence of women of color in leadership positions at the center,” said Professor Fujiwara.

EMU Ballroom

UO Campus

Film poster for “Finding Face”

This event will feature the film “Finding Face” with filmmaker Patti Duncan.

From the Finding Face website: “‘Finding Face’ details the controversial case of Tat Marina, who was attacked with acid in Cambodia in 1999. At 16, Marina was a rising star in Phnom Penh’s karaoke music scene. She was coerced into an abusive relationship with Cambodia’s Undersecretary of State, Svay Sitha, and subsequently doused with a liter of nitric acid—allegedly by his wife—that disfigured her face. A decade later, despite the fact that there were multiple witnesses to the crime, no charges have ever been filed in the case.”

Patti Duncan

An associate professor of Women’s Studies at Oregon State University, Patti Duncan specializes in transnational feminist theories and movements, women of color in the United States, and Asian and Asian Pacific American women’s writings and experiences. She is the author of Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech (University of Iowa Press, 2004).

This film event is sponsored by CSWS and the Women of Color Project.

Gina Dent

Browsing Room, Knight Library

UO Campus

Gina Dent is associate professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies, Director of the Institute for Advanced Feminist Research at UC Santa Cruz, and also Chair of the UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department. She received her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.

This talk is sponsored by CSWS and the Women of Color Project.