Archive for the ‘Gender’ Category

September 1st, 2012
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HASTAC Seminar: “Everyday Racism, Everyday Homophobia”

November 8, 2012
10:00 amto1:00 pm

Collaboration Center
Room 122
UO Knight Library

Please join CSWS as we live-stream HASTAC’s seminar “Everyday Racism, Everyday Homophobia” in the Collaboration Center in Knight Library (122).

This important conversation between “some of the nation’s most urgent thinkers on race theory and gender and sexuality studies,” Jack Halberstam, Marlon Ross, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Mark Anthony Neal, and Sharon P. Holland, will be hosted by HASTAC at Duke University and streamed live. HASTAC Scholars (including those on UO’s campus) will micro-blog and live-tweet the event using the hashtag #everydayism.

Come hear the conversation live and join in with us at any time between 10am-1pm.

For any questions, or if you would like to bring your class (for whatever length of time), please contact Chelsea Bullock (HASTAC Scholar and CSWS GTF) at cbullock(a)uoregon.edu.

July 23rd, 2012
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American Marriage—Priscilla Yamin’s new book

American Marriage: A Political Institution

by Priscilla Yamin
University of Pennsylvania Press
July 2012

Priscilla Yamin is an assistant professor of political science at the Unversity of Oregon and a CSWS faculty affiliate. CSWS helped support Yamin’s research for this book with faculty research grant.

Publisher’s Synopsis

June 5th, 2012
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Jenée Wilde Selected for Fellowship and Research Grant

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.

October 25th, 2011
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Queer Experiments in Pedagogy, a Roundtable

October 25, 2012
12:00 pmto1:30 pm

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
June 3rd, 2011
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GUEST VIEWPOINT: Is it fair to use hormone levels to determine athletes’ sex?

June 3, 2011—Eugene Register-Guard

GUEST VIEWPOINT: Is it fair to use hormone levels to determine athletes’ sex?.

by Elizabeth Reis, Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies

April 20th, 2011
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New Book on Gay Latino Studies

Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader

edited by Michael Hames-García  and Ernesto Javier Martínez
Duke University Press
(April 2011)
384 pages

Michael Hames-García is professor of Ethnic Studies at UO. Ernesto Javier Martínez is assistant professor of Ethnic Studies and of Women’s and Gender Studies at UO. Both are CSWS faculty affiliates.

Publisher’s Synopsis

Ernesto Martínez Lecture

April 6th, 2011
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Gender, Race, Culture, History Colloquium

April 6, 2012
4:00 pmto5:30 pm

McKenzie Hall 229
1101 Kincaid St.
UO campus

“Re-enacting Race, Re-enacting Gender: Crossdressing & Embodied Memories of Terror”

A talk by Dr. Mark Auslander
Professor of Anthropology & Museum Studies, Central Washington University

Discussants:
  • Dr. Melissa Stuckey, UO Professor, History
  • Dr. Robert Thompson, OSU Professor, Ethnic Studies
  • Dr. Aletta Biersack, UO Professor, Anthropology