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Browsing Room, Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St., UO campus
Free & Open to the Public

Speaker Mireille Miller-Young, PhD, is an associate professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Abstract

Black women’s representations and experiences as sex workers in the pornography industry are shaped by a racialized and gendered sexual commerce where stereotypes, structural inequalities, and social biases are the norm.

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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.

Panelists:

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.

Jenée Wilde

Jenée Wilde has been selected to receive the 2012-2013 Norman Brown Graduate Fellowship, which was established by alumnus Norman Brown (’68) to support graduate student excellence. A PhD candidate in the UO Department of English (Folklore Program), she has also been selected to receive a 2012 Folklore Summer Research Grant to conduct archival research, oral history interviews, and related fieldwork within the bisexuality/science fiction communities in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.

Graduate Student Center
111 Susan Campbell Hall
UO campus

The Queer RIG Roundtable Series presents:

“Queer Experiments in Pedagogy”

Guest speakers:

• Chicora Martin, Assistant Dean of Students and Director, LGBT Education and UO Support Services
• Mary Wood, Associate Professor, UO Department of English
• Drew Beard, Postdoctoral Instructor, UO Department of English

Shelley Grosjean

Shelley Annette Grosjean (History) and Sara S. Quinn (Anthropology) are co-winners of the 2010-11 Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship.  Following an open competition among University of Oregon undergraduates working on a senior thesis on issues related to women and/or gender, the Center for the Study of Women in Society selected the two UO seniors to share the $1,000 prize.

CSWS selected Shelley Annette Grosjean for her thesis project, “A Womyn’s Work Is Never Done: Reforming Traditionally Gendered Work in Lesbian Separatist Communities.” A history major, Grosjean is studying several lesbian separatist intentional communities that were created in the 1970s in southern Oregon, including WomenShare Collective near Grants Pass, Rootworks Community in Sunny Valley, and OWL Farm near Roseburg.

OWL Farm (from Facebook)

“A history of how lesbian separatists created a new system for the division of labor can give us insight into how women who were rejecting the patriarchal system sought new ways to organize their lives,” Grosjean wrote in her application. She continued: “In rejecting a male-dominated culture they were forced to examine all aspects of how they interacted within their lesbian separatist communities and the world at large. In creating a female only space they were taking part in creating a new definition of what ‘women’s work’ meant to them, and their story highlights for us the challenges that were faced when they tried to put their politics into action in their daily lives.”

Advisor Ellen Herman, professor of history, described Grosjean as a student who “was a very noticeable and memorable presence” in the course she took from her last winter. About Grosjean’s thesis research, she said: “Special Collections in Knight Library is the repository for a treasure trove of materials related to these communitarian experiments, a few of them still ongoing, that were established almost 40 years ago. Thus far, very few students or scholars made use of these fascinating and important materials. I am delighted that Shelley Grosjean has decided to focus her attention on them.”

Sara Quinn

Sara Quinn’s research focuses on “International Solidarity and Indigenous Female Empowerment in Post-War Guatemala.” A senior majoring in cultural anthropology—with a strong interest in gender studies and Latin American studies—Quinn will graduate in June.  Her hometown is Moscow, Idaho.

Quinn has been living and working in rural Guatemala during fall and winter terms, learning Spanish and Quiché and working closely with indigenous Mayan women in communities recovering from the 36-year civil war in Guatemala and the ethnic cleansing of indigenous Mayan people that was a deliberate part of that war.

Thesis adviser Lynn Stephen said that Quinn “looked for a situation where she would not only be in the position of a ‘researcher’ but also would be able to work for a nonprofit organization and relate to the women she hoped to work with in a way that could make a direct and tangible contribution to their daily lives.” A distinguished professor of anthropology and ethnic studies at UO, Stephen noted in her recommendation letter that Quinn’s research style “is the hallmark of collaborative research. Such research begins by choosing a research topic that responds to local interests. In her case, Sara noticed early on an interest in education and community organizing among the women she was working with and has therefore followed their direction in setting up her project.”

The Higdon Scholarship honors the life and work of Jane Higdon, a faculty researcher at the Linus Pauling Institute at OSU and an avid cyclist who was killed while bicycling on Territorial Highway in May 2006.  The financial support for the scholarship is provided by the Jane Higdon Foundation, which is dedicated to encouraging and empowering young people to pursue healthy and active lifestyles and academic excellence.

Knight Library Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus

Joan Heifetz Hollinger is a leading American scholar on adoption law and practice, as well as on the psychosocial aspects of adoptive family relationships. She is centrally involved in efforts to overhaul the laws governing American and intercountry adoptions, and is an outspoken advocate in the courts and in the media on behalf of children who are at risk of being neglected, abused, or abandoned. She is the reporter for the Proposed Uniform Adoption Act, a member of the federal Children’s Bureau task force on “Achieving Permanency for Dependent and Foster Care Children,” and the author of the ABA guide to the Multiethnic Placement Act. She has also served on the U.S. State Department’s advisory group on intercountry adoption and is drafting model parentage laws to serve the needs of children conceived through assisted reproductive technology.