Archive for the ‘Events’ Category
Queer Experiments in Pedagogy, a Roundtable
| October 25, 2012 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 1:30 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
“The S-Word: The Squaw Stereotype in American Popular Culture”— a Road Scholars lecture by Debra Merskin
| October 23, 2012 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
100 W. 10th Ave., Eugene, OR
Free & open to the public
A CSWS Road Scholars Lecture presented by Debra Merskin
This presentation explores the term “squaw” as an element of discourse that frames a version of indigenous female-ness. Speaker Debra Merskin, associate professor, UO School of Journalism and Communication, is developing a theoretical perspective of representational ethics for media and popular culture that examines the question of who has the right to represent others, under what circumstances, and in what ways.
War and Memory: Bearing witness to loss in everyday life
| October 18, 2012 | to | October 20, 2012 |
University of Oregon School of Law Symposium
Keynote: Arturo Arias, University of Texas, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Women and the Search for Justice and Reconciliation in Guatemala: Gabriela Martínez
| October 17, 2012 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 1:00 pm |
Free & Open to the Public
Knight Library Browsing Rm
1501 Kincaid St.
CSWS Noon Talk
CSWS associate director Gabriela Martínez will discuss her work-in-progress about Guatemala, and the significance of the Historical Archives of the National Police of Guatemala (AHPN). She will address the work of remarkable women who are engaged in bringing to justice perpetrators of crimes against humanity. Several newly opened cases revisit the internal war that engulfed Guatemala from 1960 to 1996, when a peace accord was signed. Gabriela Martínez is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication.
CSWS Film Series: Telling Amy’s Story
| October 17, 2012 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Lawrence 177
1190 Franklin Blvd.
UO campus
In conjunction with Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Screening & moderated discussion: Telling Amy’s Story. This documentary film is hosted by actress and activist Mariska Hargitay and told by detective Deirdri Fishel. Telling Amy’s Story follows the timeline of a domestic violence homicide that occurred on November 8, 2001.
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Social Sciences Feminist Network (SSFN) Research Interest Group.
Bestselling “Wild” author Cheryl Strayed to Read at UO
| October 10, 2012 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Ford Alumni Center
Giustina Ballroom
1720 East 13th Ave
Portland’s Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of the memoir Wild and the “Dear Sugar” advice collection Tiny Beautiful Thingswill give a reading from her work. This reading and booksigning is a ticketed event. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased in the book department in the Duck Store or online.
Online ticket sales direct link — This event is sold out.
Sponsored by the University of Oregon Bookstore, with co-sponsorship from the Women Writer’s Project, UO Center for the Study of Women in Society; the ASUO Women’s Center; and the UO Outdoor Program.
“From Suffrage to Citizenship: Empowering Oregon Women in the 20th Century and Beyond,” a Symposium
1501 Kincaid St.
Keynote speaker: Lauren Kessler, Professor, UO School of Journalism and Communication
A symposium celebrating the centennial of women’s suffrage is scheduled for Thursday, October 25, from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Knight Library’s Browsing Room on the UO campus.
Linda Long, manuscripts librarian at the UO Libraries and organizer of the symposium, says that the event is meant to not only celebrate past accomplishments of women as voters and citizens but to look to the future as well. “Women have accomplished much in the past 100 years,” she says, “but a primary goal of the symposium is to sustain and strengthen their contributions as citizens far into the future.”
From 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., a panel will address the question “How Have Women Changed Politics?” Panel members include: