Racial Representations panelists / photo by Chelsea Bullock.

Students, faculty and community members enjoyed a full day of literary readings and commentary on race at the University of Oregon on April 26, 2013, when a group of innovative scholars who specialize in African American literature gathered to share and discuss their research. “Racial Representations: African American Literature since 1975,” was organized by Courtney Thorsson, UO assistant professor of English.

In Print: Race & Ethnicity | AroundtheO.

April 4, 2013 — “University of Oregon Philosophy Professor Naomi Zack’s newest publication, Race and Ethnicity (Bridgepoint Education, Inc., 2012), is a textbook that combines her earlier philosophical work examining the concept of race as culturally relative with a look at the social aspect of race being associated with oppression.” Read more in AroundtheO

Naomi Zack is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan, Edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano (Stanford University Press, March 2013)

This book comes out of a conference held at the University of Oregon in 2010 and organized by Alisa Freedman, UO associate professor of Japanese Literature & Film in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. Freedman is a CSWS faculty affiliate who has written about her research for the CSWS website in the article “Changing Images of Japanese Workingwomen.”

From the publisher:

“This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women’s mobility and labor in Japan. The theme of “modern girls” continues to offer a captivating window into the changes that women’s roles have undergone during the course of the last century.

Book by University of Oregon psychologists opens eyes on betrayal | Communications.

EUGENE, Ore. — (Feb. 27, 2013) — “Betrayal violates us,” write University of Oregon psychologists Jennifer Freyd and Pamela Birrell in the preface of a new book that tackles the devastating act and probes the deep underpinnings of why people cover it up.

Blind to Betrayal (John Wiley & Sons, 224 pages) hits the bookstands March 11. Freyd, an expert on betrayal and child abuse, and Birrell, a licensed clinical psychologist and senior instructor in the UO Department of Psychology, present case studies of unfaithful spouses, abuse by powerful authority figures and corrupt institutions. More importantly, they address coming to grips with betrayal and how doing so helps victims move on. — From the UO Office of Communications. Read more…

Blind to Betrayal (John Wiley & Sons, 224 pages)
by University of Oregon psychologists Jennifer Freyd and Pamela Birrell

In PRINT: American Sexual Histories second edition | Around the O.

“The second edition of Elizabeth Reis’ popular American Sexual Histories has recently been published and is as well received as the first edition. Reis is a professor of history and of women’s and gender studies at the University of Oregon.” — From Around the O,  February 26, 2013
Read more…

Elizabeth Reis is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

Erb Memorial (EMU)

“A Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin” (Ballroom)

followed by book signing with Ursula Le Guin and Molly Gloss (EMU Maple/Oak)

PDF Worlds Beyond World poster

In fall 2013, in collaboration with the ASUO Women’s Center and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, the Center for the Study of Women in Society presents “Agents of Change” – a three-day celebration of feminist research, activism, and creativity at the University of Oregon. The event opens on Thursday, November 7, by honoring the legacy of feminist research and leadership through special guests and a new documentary film on the founding of CSWS. On Friday, November. 8, the symposium “Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives” explores important personal and political moments from four decades of change, progress, and challenges in feminism. On Friday evening, the celebration moves into feminist visions of the future – “Worlds Beyond World” – with special guest Ursula K. Le Guin. Feminist utopian thought continues on Saturday, November 9, with a symposium that explores the role that feminist speculative fiction has played in helping us think about brighter and less oppressive futures.

Sponsors: Sally Miller Gearhart Fund, ASUO Women’s Center, Center for the Study of Women in Society, Robert D. Clark Honors College, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies

For more information about 40th anniversary events, go to: http://csws.uoregon.edu/?page_id=14518

IN PRINT: “Walking Wounded,” poems by Robert Hill Long | Around the O. IN PRINT offers readers of AroundtheO a look at recent books by UO faculty and staff.

Walking Wounded, poems by Robert Hill Long, 2012 (WordTech Editions, Cincinnati, Ohio)

From AroundtheO: “There is no victory in war. Everyone loses in some way, whether victim or hero. Robert Hill Long’s poems stare directly into war’s human misery, never blinking away from the gaping wounds, corpse-carrying uphill treks, or guilt-ridden memories.” Read more

Long is the UO Assistant Director of Research Development Services. His other books include The Work of the Bow; The Power to Die; and The Effigies. He is co-coordinator of the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium.

2013 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium — Common Ground: Language, Land, Story — May 9 -11