1989-90 Events

Faculty Presentations

  • "Ecofeminism: Women and the Earth" Public Interest Law Conference: Panelists included Irene Diamond and Carolyn Merchant. Vandana Slyvia
  • Positions on Imposition: Five Cultural Realities"
  • Petra Munro and Gretchen Freed-Rowland, UO Resident Teacher Program, and Janice Jipson, teacher education

Speakers

  • "Black Education in Rural Alabama in the 1920s": Sarah Rice, teacher, Multicultural Affairs, Department of English
  • "Discussion of the book Staying Alive": Vandana Shiva, Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy, Dehadrun, India; Department of Political Science
  • "Nostalgia and the American Family": Stephanie Coontz, Evergreen State College Department of Sociology, Hungry Head Bookstore
  • "Women in the Middle East": Ann Kerr. American University, Beirut Lebanon; Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
  • "Heroines of the Holocaust and their Influence on Post-Holocaust Jewish Feminism": Leah Novick, rabbi; Jewish Student Union
  • "Public Forum About the Lives of Women Farm Workers" accompanied by the documentary, "Troubled Harvest": Dolores Huerta, cofounder, United Farm Workers Union MEChA, Clergy and Laity Concerned, Centro Latino Americana
  • "A Reading": Ursula LeGuin, author; UO Library
  • "Racial Justice Workshop": Margarita Mendoza de Sugiyama, Evergreen College; YWCA
  • "The Four Faces of Abigail: Women's Communication Strategies in the Novels of Abigail Scott Duniway": Jean Ward, Lewis and Clark College
  • "Female Initiation: Introducing Apache and Navajo Girls to Women's Spiritual and Cultural Values": Inez Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • "Laying the Groundwork: Locating Information for Curricular Transformation": Wei Chi Poon, University of California, Berkeley and Susan Searing, University of Wisconsin, Madison UO Library
  • "Colloquium on Swedish Work Life": Wuokko Knocke, Swedish Center for Working Life; Center for the Study of Work, Economy and Community, Department of Sociology
  • "Discussion of The Reflowering of the Goddess," accompanied by slide presentation, Gloria Orenstein, University of Southern California Department of Political Science
  • A Micronesian Woman's View of Palau's Matrilineal System": Victoria Maui, Micronesian Occupational College. Micronesia; Department of Anthropology, Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management
  • "The Social Construction of Race, Class, and Gender": Wendy Luttrell, Duke University Women's Studies Program
  • "African American Women and the Welfare State": Rose Brewer. CSWS visiting scholar from the University of Minnesota
  • "From Silent Resistance to Nonviolent Activism: Women in Latin America": Fanny Carrion De Fierro, Keene State College
  • "In Quest of the Black Political Woman": Jewel Prestage, Prairie View A&M University; A University for Everyone Program
  • "Working Women and Economic History in Europe in the Late Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries": Christina Vanja, University of Kassel, West Germany; Department of History
  • "How to Recognize and Avoid Acquaintance Rape and Develop and Enhance Prevention Strategies": Andrea Parrott, Cornell University, Associated Students of the University of Oregon, Office of University Housing. Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity, Office of tire Dean of Students, Unwanted Sexual Behavior Task Force

"What Theory for 'A University for Everyone?' A Seminar on Bettina Apetheker's Book, Tapestries for Life"