Jane Grant Room
330 Hendricks Hall
1408 University St.

Food in the Field Research Interest Group: Faculty Work in Progress Series

“The visual component of food has skyrocketed in importance in our contemporary society. As Americans, we spend more time watching food shows on TV then we do eating or cooking. What are the causes, ramifications and possible futures of this turn to the visual? This paper explores the sensorial, cultural, and nutritional implications of this revolution.” — Nicola Camerlenghi is an assistant professor of art history in the UO Department of the History of Art and Architecture.

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, Food in the Field Research Interest Group

Browsing Room
Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.

Now out in hardback and available in eBook Formats Online, The Missing Italian Girl (Pegasus Books, February 2013) is the third crime novel in the Bernard Martin mystery series of Barbara Corrado Pope, professor emerita, UO Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.

March 2 at Knight Library marks the first reading from The Missing Italian Girl. Book signing and reception to follow.

“Pope plots Clarie’s search for the missing girl with precision and restraint. The true draw here is her portait of women—and their not-so-equal rights—at the turn of the last century. Wonderfully engaging. Even in the face of senseless limitations, Clarie proves it is possible to find joy, truth—and even oneself.” —Oprah.com

Barbara Pope serves on the advisory board of the CSWS Women Writers Project and will moderate a panel on Saturday, May 11, at the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium: “Common Ground: Land, Language, Story,” to be held at the Eugene Public Library from 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

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Gerlinger Hall Alumni Lounge
1468 University St.
UO campus

A group of innovative scholars who specialize in African American literature will gather at the University of Oregon to give talks about their research on April 26, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. This free symposium is open to the public and will take place in the Alumni Lounge of Gerlinger Hall, 1468 University Street.

This symposium will include a morning panel moderated by Mark Whalan (U Oregon) and an afternoon panel moderated by Ernesto Martínez (U Oregon). The day will conclude with readings of poetry and creative nonfiction from accomplished authors Evie Shockley and David Bradley.

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Guest Presenters:

Dr. Alia Al-Saji

Ford Alumni Center
Room 202
1720 E. 13th
Friday workshop: PLC 314

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University of Oregon – Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series

Dr. Alia Al-Saji, Associate Professor of Philosophy, McGill University

Alia Al-Saji’s work engages 20th century phenomenology and French philosophy, on the one hand, and critical race and feminist theories, on the other. She thus explores questions of embodiment, memory and intersubjectivity as developed in the works of Henri Bergson and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Furthermore, she develops a phenomenology of what has been called “cultural racism” by offering a feminist analysis of representations of Muslim women in contemporary Western contexts.

April 26 Workshop

Room 101 (Auditorium)
Jaqua Center
1615 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus

Dorothy Roberts will present a talk based on her groundbreaking book, Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (New Press, 2011) Roberts examines how the myth of a biological concept of race—revived by purportedly cutting-edge science, race-specific drugs, genetic testing, and DNA databases—continues to undermine a just society and promote inequality in a supposedly “post-racial” era.

Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, joined the University of Pennsylvania in 2012 as its 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and the Law School where she also holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander chair.

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University of Oregon
Erb Memorial Union
1222 E. 13th Ave.

Event Overview: 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 across four decades and beyond.

Tracing a trajectory of feminist history and creativity in the past, present, and future, event highlights include:

• Nov. 7 – “Agents of Change” opening celebration and documentary film premiere, honoring the legacy of feminist research and leadership at the University of Oregon.
•  Nov. 8 – “Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives” symposium, exploring four decades of feminism through women’s voices recounting change, progress, and challenges in women’s health, violence against women, women’s rights, activism and policy, and education and work.
•  Nov. 9 – “Worlds Beyond World” symposium devoted to envisioning the future through feminist science fiction and utopian thought, with special guests Ursula K. Le Guin, Molly Gloss, Andrea Hairston, L. Timmel Duchamp, Alexis Lothian, and Helen Merrick.

Schedule:  http://csws.uoregon.edu/?page_id=14518

UO Today #526: Brenda Frink | University of Oregon Video.

Brenda Frink, research associate at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, talks about pioneer societies and Pioneer Mother monuments in the American West.

Dr. Frink lectured on “Pioneer Mother: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Public Monuments in the U.S. West,” at the Many Nations Longhouse on the UO campus on November 1, 2012. Her lecture was sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society, with co-sponsorship from