2003-04 Events

Fall 2003

Noon Talks:

  • October 8th – “Zapotec Women in the Global Economy: Work, Identity, and Politics,” Lynn Stephen, professor, Anthropology
  • October 22nd – “CSWS Grant Question-Answer Seminar,” Judith Musick, associate director, CSWS
  • November 5th – “Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire,” P. Lowell Bowditch, associate professor, Classics
  • November 19th – “The Gendering of the Informal Opportunities: A Look at Women’s and Men’s Labor in Post-Soviet Komsomolsk, Ukraine,” Leontina Hormel, graduate student, Sociology
  • December 3rd – “Reading Gender in Central African Literature of War,” Christina Vandervorst, graduate student, Romance Languages
  • January 14th – “Disease and the Dilemmas of Identity: Representation of Women in Modern Chinese Literature,” Eileen Frances Vickery, graduate student, East Asian Languages and Literatures
  • February 11th – “Nepal’s Everyday Ecologists: Women Stewards of the Himalayas,” Elizabeth Larson, graduate student, International Studies
  • March 3rd – “Subject to the Laws of Nature: Ecofeminism, Subjectivity, and Political Representation,” Chaone Mallory, graduate student, Environmental Studies and Women’s and Gender studies

Road Scholars:

  • September 27th - 2-3:30pm, Deschutes Library-Bend: “Frida Kahlo: Mexican Artist – World Icon,” Stephanie Wood, senior research associate, CSWS
  • October 9th - 12-1pm, Linn-Benton Community College: “Mothers of the Disappeared and Indigenous Rebels: Women and Social Movements in Latin America,” Lynn Stephen, professor, Anthropology
  • October 14th - 1:15-2:45pm, OASIS at Meier & Frank, Valley River Center: “Poster Girls of the Middle Ages,” Barbara Altmann, associate professor, Romance Languages
  • October 21st - 1:15-2:45pm, OASIS at Meier & Frank, Valley River Center: “Into Our Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the United States,” Sandra Morgen, director, CSWS, and professor, Anthropology
  • October 29th - 1-2:30pm, OASIS at Meier & Frank, Valley River Center: “Bear Lizzie: Memoir of a Jewish Immigrant Woman,” Elizabeth Reis, assistant professor, Women’s and Gender Studies
  • November 14th - 12-1pm, Linn-Benton Community College: “Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption and Why It Matters,” Ellen Herman, associate professor, History
  • November 19th - 1:30-3pm, OASIS at Meirer & Frank, Valey River Center: “Renewing Welfare Reform: Will Getting Tougher Reduce Poverty?”, Joan Acker, CSWS, and professor emerita, Sociology
  • January 22nd - 12-1pm, Linn-Benton Community College: “Into Our Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the United States,” Sandra Morgen, director, CSWS, and professor, Anthropology
  • February 12th - 12-1pm, Linn-Benton Community College: “Renewing Welfare Reform: Will Getting Tougher Reduce Poverty?”, Joan Acker, CSWS, and professor emerita, Sociology

Teaching and Tea:

  • October 21st – “The Adoption History Project,” Ellen Herman, associate professor, History
  • November 11th – “The Gendered Garden: Images and Meaning,” Judith Musick, associate director, CSWS
  • December 4th – “An American Amazon in Paris: Natalie Clifford Barney’s Literary Saons in the 1920s,” Teri Ciacci, manager, Mother Kali’s Bookstore, and independent writer
  • January 27th – “Word and Tone: Hender in 19th Century German Poetry and Music,” Marylin Linton, associate professor, Germanic Languages and Literature, and Ann Tedards, associate professor, Music
  • February 12th – “Tea and Zen One Taste,” Miya Shimada, program developer and manager, the Urasenke Foundation, Seattle Branch

Winter 2004

Joy Belsky Memorial Lecture Series:

February - "The Public Trust and the Precautionary Principle: Visionary Tools for the Environment and Public Health", speakers were Carolyn Raffensperger (executive director, Science and Environmental Health Network) and Martha Dina Arguello (director, Health and Environment Programs, Physicians for Social Responsibility, L.A.)

Spring 2004

Noon Talks:

330 Hendricks, Wednesdays 12:00 to 1:00 PM

  • April 21st – “Nepal’s Everyday Ecologists: Women Stewards of the Himalayas,” Elizabeth Larson, graduate student, International Studies
  • May 5th – “Conavigua: Women Organizing Against Political Violence in Guatemala,” Sandra Ezqeurra, graduate student, Sociology

Road Scholars:

  • May 3rd - 2:30PM, Willamette Oaks Retirement Living, "Into Out Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the United States," Sandra Morgen, director, CSWS, and professor, Anthropology
  • May 7th - 7:30PM, Eugene Public Library, "Frida Kahlo: Mexican Painter – World Icon," Stephanie Wood, senior research associate, CSWS

Teaching and Tea:

330 Hendricks 4:00 tp 5:30 PM

  • April 15th – “Striking Against the Empire: An Analysis of the “True” Indigenous Routs of Chicana and Chicanos,” Zelda Haro, graduate student, International Studies Program
  • May 13th – “The Death of a Female Moneylender: A Medieval Murder Mystery,” Judith Baskin, professor, Judaic studies

Events:

  • April 22nd, 4-6pm, "Perfect Unions: The Politics and Law of Same-Sex Marriage," Scott Barclay, Political Science, SUNY, Albany; Pricilla Uamin, Political Science, New School for Social Research; Dom Vetri, law, UO; Julie Novkov, Political Science, UO
  • May 20st-21nd - Knight Law Center, Borders of Human Security Conference
    • Thursday, May 20th
      • 7:30pm Opening Address, Noleen Heyzer, executive director, UNIFEM
    • Friday May 21st
      • 8:30am – Welcome
      • 9-10:45am – "Terror at Home: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Violence"
        • Chair: Keith Aoki, School of Law, University of Oregon; Dahlia Hashad, ACLU Project on Racial Profiling; Patricia Cortez, Amigo de los Sobrevivientes; Cynthia Cockburn, City University London; Margaret Knox, Department of Geography, University of Oregon
      • 11am-12:45pm – "Globalization, Immigration, and Work"
        • Chair: Susan Gardwick, Department of Geography, University of Oregon; Rhonda Ramiro, Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines in the Bay Area; Ramon Ramirez, PCUN; Lise Nelson, Department of Geography, UO; Lynn Stephen, Department of Anthropology, UO
      • 2-4pm – "Economic Security and Insecurities"
        • Chair: Ellen Scott, Department of Sociology, UO; Dorthy Roberts, Northwestern School of Law; Cindi Katz, City University of New York, Graduate Center; Joan Acker, Department of Sociology, UO; Sandra Morgen, Department of Anthropology, UO
      • 4:15-6pm – "Promoting Human Security at Home"
        • Chair: Sandra Morgen, Department of Anthropology, UO; Guadalupe Quinn, CAUSA; Carol Van Houten, Community Alliance of Lane County; Hope Marston, Euguene-Springfield Solidarity Network; Deana Dartt, Department of Anthropology, UO; Harriet Merrick, Basic Rights Oregon
      • 6-7pm – Reception