CSWS
Research Interest Group Update
Updated
May 27, 2008
For RIG news and updates, click on the RIG of interest
to you on the list below, or scroll down the page.
Americas
RIG Description
The purpose of this RIG is to strengthen the work of, and foster contact among, scholars interested in women in the Americas (that is, women in Latin America and Latinas in the U.S. and Canada) on issues of gender, sexuality, and feminism.
If you have an interest in being a part of this RIG, contact the coordinator, below:
Contacts:
Analisa Taylor, Romance Languages, 541-346-5813
Email: analisa@uoregon.edu
or: Stephanie Wood, CSWS, 541-346-5771
Email: swood@uoregon.edu
Becoming Bicultural: Latino Immigrant Mothers Raising American Children
RIG Description
This research interest group will address cross-cultural issues confronted by Latino immigrant mothers who are raising their children in the United States. In bringing Latino mother/ professionals together in a group setting, we expect to produce feelings of empathy, shared convictions, and cohesiveness among the group participants—creating a sense that we are not alone here raising bilingual bicultural kids. In this climate of mutual respect, validation, and encouragement from peers, w e want to bring our cultural traditions into the assessment of real life situations, to better understand the issues and to develop future research projects.
Our research interest group will meet once a month in the evening (6:00 to 8:00 pm) at Centro Latino, in Eugene. We have already secured the commitment by Centro’s Executive Director to host our meetings. We plan to take notes and tape some of our discussions to produce internal reports, and use the quotations in future research proposals. We will invite local speakers to explore particular topics in depth with us. We will share academic readings, and connect the authors’ ideas to our own personal and professional experiences.
If you have an interest in being a part of this RIG, contact the coordinator, below:
Contacts:
Marcela Mendoza (co-coordinator):
mmendoza@uoregon.edu, 541-346-5247
Ruth Vargas-Forman (co-coordinator):
forman@ohsu.edu, 541-349-0301
Feminist
Philosophy
RIG Description
This RIG's mission is to promote the study of feminist philosophy by providing a safe and encouraging forum to read and discuss feminist work, and when possible, by bringing feminist philosophers to campus for seminars with RIG members and public presentations.
May 31, 2008 - Feminist Phenomenology Conference
For program click here.
Contact: Bonnie
Mann, faculty - Philosophy Dept.
Gender in Africa and the African Diaspora (GAAD)
RIG Description
This Rig brings together scholars interested in gender in Africa, the African Diaspora, and the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, and feminism as related to the general topic. We hope to promote collaborative scholarship and create a supportive environment for scholars with interests in this area of interest and to increase the visibility and understanding of these themes within the larger university community and loacal community as well.We want to publicize our RIG and draw in a wider university and community membership if possible.
Future plans may include:
- share the written scholarship of members including works-in-progress
- select and discuss interdisciplinary readings
- watch and discuss relevant films
- thematic discussion groups
- sponsor brown bag talks
- invite speakers or performers to campus
If you have an interest in this topic, please contact our coordinator.
Contact: Yvonne Braun, Dept. of Sociology, 541-346-5752
E-mail: ybraun@uoregon.edu
Healing Arts
RIG Description
This Rig is exploring how different cultures transmit, alter, and
question concepts of health and illness and how these concepts are
gendered. They will be approaching their topics by addressing healing
as a total art. Guests are welcome. Please visit our new website at http://www.uoregon.edu~healarts/ and come back from time to time as we expand it.
This RIG is "on sabbatical" until Fall 2008.
RIG Coordinator Contacts: Susan Anderson, or Louise Bishop, 346-0733
Reading Empires
RIG Description
This RIG will examine empirical, theoretical and methodological questions regarding how we conceptualize and study emergent forms of empires in the 21st century. We plan to engage with texts that attempt to go beyond the conventional boundaries of knowledge. Based on our scholarly interests we would investigate empires of knowledge, of markets, technology, media and militarism, with a focus on jihadist movements.
For information about the RIG, other upcoming meetings or special events contact:
Lamia Karim, 346-5095, lamia@uoregon.edu
Sangita Gopal, 346-3978,
sgopal@uoregon.edu
Reclaiming the Past
RIG Description
This RIG is for scholars and students working in all humanities disciplines with an interest in gender and a focus on the past; thus it has attracted scholars in a wide variety of disciplines and time periods. This group is open to faculty and students as well as community scholars.
We are engaged in work-in-progress talks and discussions dedicated to specific readings.
For information about the RIG, upcoming meetings
or special events contact: Gina Psaki, 541-346-4042
Social Sciences Feminist Network
RIG Description
The Social Science Feminist Network RIG is committed to creating a space for the discussion of feminist work and the sharing of ideas and experiences of being in academia. Our goal is to continue the feminist traditional of collaborative work and mutual support. For this reason, we believe that a cooperative group structure and a collective process of decision-making works best for our intellectual endeavors.
Upcoming Activities:
The Social Science Feminist Research Interest Group has initiated a year-long, two-credit Feminist Reading and Research Group that began Fall Quarter, 2007.
This year-long reading group focuses on feminist theory and methods. This reading group meets every two weeks and will continue throughout the Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters. The anticipated outcome of this reading group will be a research proposal created by the group to enact a feminist research project, which began Fall Quarter, 2008.
Selection of the readings and facilitation of the discussion will rotate among group members.
Spring Quarter 2008: Feminist Research Project Proposal
During this quarter, participants will work on developing a proposal for a research project related to the Winter Quarter’s readings. At the end of the term, the group will submit their proposal to CSWS for possible funding. This project will become the focus of the RIG during academic year 2008-09, and it will hopefully result in a group publication at the end of the project. lty member on the project.
The Diversity Initative
RIG Description
The group's mission is to research, promote, and deliver mental health services that are sensitive to an individual's cultural background, gender, and sexuality.
Contact for more information:
Jessica Murakami
E-mail: jmurakam@uoregon.edu
The Projects of Queer Studies:
Race, Pedagogy, and Social Theory
RIG Description
Our mission is to develop a community of scholars at the UO who are in conversation about the most recent work in the field of queer studies, particularly the work that is seeking to address intersections of gender, sexuality, race, class, disability, and legacies of colonialism.
Monday, May 5th, 12:00-2:00 p.m.
330 Hendricks Hall
Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley
Discussing her most recent work on transnational feminist and queer theory, African Diaspora literatures, and Caribbean and Postcolonial Studies
We will read and discuss with Tinsley her article “Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic: Imagining the Middle Passage as Queer Borderwaters," forthcoming in GLQ: A Special Issue on Queer/Migration, and the introduction to her forthcoming book "Thiefing Sugar: Reading Erotic Geographies of Caribbean Women Who Love Women." [Do not cite these texts without consulting the author].
Please contact irmary@uoregon.edu if you plan to join us and if you need any accommodations for this event. We plan to have box lunches.
Note: During the past two years, The Projects of Queer Studies Research Interest Group's mission has been to develop a community of scholars at the UO who are in conversation about the most recent work in the field of queer studies, particularly the work that is seeking to address intersections of gender, sexuality, race, class, disability, and legacies of colonialism. This event will provide us an opportunity to engage with a scholar whose work in queer studies already embodies the goals of our mission statement.
Sponsored by: the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) and the proposed Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality Studies (CRESS)
Coordinators:
Ernesto J. Martinez,
assistant professor, Women's and Gender Studies,
(541) 346-5523,
E-mail: ejm@uoregon.edu
Irmary Reyes-Santos, visiting assistant professor, Ethnic Studies Program, 541-346-1768, Email: irmary@uoregon.edu
Violence, Gender and Society
RIG Description
This group is interested in domestic violence and other forms of violence
involving women. Their mission is to promote research, community collaboration & information dissemination in the area of violence, gender and
society.
New members are welcome to our meetings.
For RIG information contact Deborah Olson, 541-346-2483.
Wired
RIG Description
This research interest group is focused on exploring and applying innovations in digital technology, including web-based technologies, to research on women in the humanities and humanities-oreinted social sciences.
For more information and meeting dates, times and place, contact Judith Musick, CSWS, or call 541/346-5099.
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