Archive for the ‘Academic Issues’ Category

December 15th, 2012
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IRB Roundtable: CSWS Grad Student Coffee Hour

February 8, 2013
3:00 pmto4:00 pm

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Graduate Student Center
Room 111A
Susan Campbell Hall

Negotiating Human Subject Protocols

IRB Roundtable: A Short Presentation and Q&A for Graduate Students

Panelists
  • Lamia Karim, associate professor, UO Department of Anthropology
  • Lise Nelson, associate professor, UO Department of Geography

Designed for graduate students or other scholars new to human subjects research, this panel will

December 1st, 2012
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CSWS Exhibition Development Practicum

January 15, 2013

The Center for the Study of Women in Society is seeking two qualified students to collaborate on the design and production of two exhibitions of archived materials relating to feminist research, activism, and creative production at the University of Oregon. This project, which is planned as part of CSWS’s 40th anniversary celebration in Fall 2013, will offer students an opportunity to extend, advance, and further their existing skills in exhibition development as well as acquire new ones.

November 15th, 2012
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New Latino Digital Think-Tank Launches at Rutgers University

The Latino Information Network at Rutgers (LIN@R) to produce original research and analysis on social, political and economic issues affecting the Latino community

New Brunswick, N.J. – The Latino Information Network at Rutgers (LIN@R) University on November 13, 2012, launched a first-of-its-kind Latino-focused research center and digital think-tank. LIN@R will provide original research, analysis and commentary on cultural, social, educational, political and economic aspects affecting the Latino community.

Analysis, research and insights produced by LIN@R will be made available to the public through its website. LIN@R will focus on issue areas including technology and telecommunications, immigration, politics and education.

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 16th, 2012
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Global Perspectives on Disability—a course from MIUSA

Mobility International USA (MIUSA) will teach a summer weekend course  on August 11 and 12, 2012, called “Global Perspectives on Disability,” sponsored by the University of Oregon International Studies and Special Education departments.

The class is being held during MIUSA’s International Women’s Institute on Leadership and Disability (WILD), a three week leadership training in Eugene which brings together 30 disabled women activists from around the world. The women from leadership training will be guest speakers during the class. This is a great opportunity for  students who are interested in women’s empowerment and leadership to meet these amazing women leaders.

June 13th, 2012
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Essay on how colleges treat “diversity hires” | Inside Higher Ed

March 1st, 2012
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The Taormino-OSU Case Study: a pedagogical tool

A Pedagogical Case Study of the Keynote-Speaker Controversy at Oregon State University’s Modern Sex Conference
by Lacey Mamak, MLIS, February 2012

http://csws.uoregon.edu/wp-content/docs/Misc/TaorminoOSU_casestudydistro.pdf

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