1990-91 Events

Faculty Presentations

  • "Cultural Structuring in Life Narratives: An Illustration from an Albino African American Woman": Joanne Taylor, anthropology.
  • "Women and Power in Organizations": Diane Dunlap. Educational Policy and Management
  • "Gender Inequality in the Papua, New Guinea Highlands?": Aleta Biersack, anthropology
  • "Gender Role Development in Young Children: From Categories to Metaphors": Beverly Fagot, psychology
  • "Gender and Body Image: Impact on Depression and Eating Disorders": Betty Merten, Child Development and Rehabilitation Center
  • "Film and Video by and about Latin American Women": Julia Lesage, speech
  • "Performance and Prestige: Macedonian Rom (Gypsy) Women'": Carol Silverman, anthropology
  • "The Maid's Daughter: A Modem Version of Upstairs, Downstairs": Mary Romero, sociology
  • "Tokenism, Workplace Jurisprudence, and Employment Equality": Patrica Gwartney Gibbs, sociology

Speakers

  • "African Environmental Issues: Mali": Maria Keila, Association d'Entreaide et du Development Mali; L-A-W, Women's Studies and International Studies Programs
  • "Ethnic Identity and Modernization Among the Maya of Guatemala": Irma Otzoy, dentist and anthropologist, and Enrique Sam Colop, lawyer and linguist, Guatemala; Department of Linguistics
  • "Too Old, Too Ugly, and Not Deferential to Men": Christine Craft, KFBK-Talk Radio, Men Against Rape, ASUO Women's Center, Incidental Fee Committee, Cultural Forum, Unwanted Sexual Behavior Task Force
  • "Benefit for Justice in South Africa": Fatima Meer, Carlton Raymond and Wilberta Savage, Visiting Professor of International Relations and Peace, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa
  • "Translating Women Writers": Suzanne Jill Levine, University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Romance Languages, Oregon Council for the Humanities
  • "Sappho in the Text of Plato": Page Dubois, University of California, San Diego Department of English, Comparative Literature Program
  • "Women's Suffrage in Oregon: The Campaign Tactics of Susan B. Anthony, 1871-1906.: Thomas Edwards, Whitman College, Department of History, Women’s Studies Program
  • "Sally Gearhart Reads Her Short Fiction": Sally Gearhart, San Francisco State University; UO Library
  • "Starting Thought from Women's Lives": Sandra Harding, University of Delaware Institute of Cognition and Decision Sciences
  • "Japanese-American Women's Experiences": Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, writer, A University for Everyone Program, Creative Writing Program
  • "Women, Culture, and Organizing": Nomo11de Ngubo, South African labor organizer, Third World Women's Project, South Africa; Latin American Support Committee
  • "Central and South American Environmental Issues" and "International Lending: Its Environmental Impact": Ximena Navarro, Universidad Austial Valdivia, Chile, Women's Studies Program, International Studies Program and L-A-W
  • "Shock Therapy: GDR Women and German Reunification": Dorothy Rosenburg, International Research and Exchange Board Department of Germanic Languages and Literature
  • "Marriage, Money, and Mobility: A Feminist Integration of Marxist and Functionalist Theories": Sandra Gill, Gettysburg College
  • "Archival Research in Jewish Women's History and Literature": Irena Klepfisz, YJVO Institute for Jewish Research, Women's Studies Program, Cultural Forum, Sigma Alplm Mu Foundation
  • "Traditional Folk Tales, Ghost Stories, Appalachian Folklore": Jackie Torrence, African American storyteller, Traditional Arts Services, Women’s Diversity Program, Cultural Forum, ASUO Women's Resource and Referral, National Lawyers Guild
  • "Women in Leisure": Susan Shaw, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Leisure Studies and Services Program, Visiting Scholars Fund, Canadian Studies Committee
  • "Happy Endings and Resisting Women: The Economy of Love in Boccaccio's Decameron" Ray Fleming, Pennsylvania State University, Oregon Humanities Center, Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity, Department of Romance Languages
  • "Mother of Many Children," "Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Metis Child," and "Poundmaker's Lodge: A Healing Place," video presentation: Alanis Obomsawin, video documentarist, Film Board of Canada, A University for Everyone Program, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Canadian Studies Committee, Department of Speech
  • "The American Neo-Nazi Movement Today": Elinor Langer, independent scholar, Department of English, Oregon Humanities Center
  • "Women in Contemporary China: A Conversation with Wang Yin": Wang Yin, president AII-China Women's Federation, China, Department of Sociology, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
  • 'The Gendering of Art and Nature in Renaissance Italy": Mary Garrard, American University, Washington, DC, School of Architecture and Allied Arts Lectures and Exhibits Committee, Oregon Council for the Humanities, Oregon Humanities Center, Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
  • "Women in the State of Grace: Chicanas and Literature": Denise Chavez, University of Houston, A University for Everyone Program, Zonta Club of Eugene
  • "Scandinavian Women Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their European Background": Grethe Holmen, journalist, independent scholar, Denmark; Friends of Scandinavian Studies
  • "Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration." Keynote address, "Malcolm X-the Man, the Father: Away from the Podium" by Attallah Shabazz, producer, writer, and director, Symposium on Gay and Lesbian Studies at the University of Oregon