2005-06 Events

Fall 2005

Brown Bag Lectures:

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

  • October 19th – “Hasta la Victoria: The Sandinista Revolution, Women, and Tourist Nicaragua,” Josh Fisher, graduate student, Anthropology
  • November 9th – “The Hidden Baroque in Britain and the Gendering of Literary History,” Dianne Dugaw, professor, English
  • November 30th – “CSWS Grants: A Question and Answer Seminar,” Judith Musick, associate director, CSWS

Events:

  • October 28th - Gender, Race, and Militarization, EMU
    • 10-11:30am – Panel Discussion: “Contesting Militarization: Global Perspectives,” Lakshmi Chaudhry, Lamia Karim, UO assistant professor of anthropology, Gwyn Kirk
    • 12:30-1:45pm – Roundtable Discussions
      • “Military Recruitment and Counter-Recruitment,” Carol Van Houten
      • “Militarization in the Classroom,” Simona Sharoni and Ron Smith
      • “Echoes from Latin America,” Lynn Stephen and Barbara Sutton
      • “Moral Vacuums: The Soldier-Citizen and the State,” Shaul Cohen and Leonard Feldman
    • 2-3:30PM – Panel Discussion: “Homefronts and Homefires,” Cathrine Lutz, professor, Brown University, Karen Houppert, and Bonnie Mann, UO assistant professor of Philosophy
    • 4-5:30pm – Keynote Address: US Congresswoman Barbara Lee, “Gender, Race, and Militarization: Toward a More Just and Effective Alternatives”
    • Reception to Follow
  • September 28th - Wednesdays at 7pm, 180 PLC Hall, "Women Without Borders: Stories of Resistance from around the World – A Film Series," Sponsored by the CSWS and the Sociology Film Collective.
  • October 5th - Wednesdays and Tuesdays, 12-1pm, Hendricks Hall 330, "International Perspectives on Women, Gender, and Sexuality: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium"

Winter 2006

Brown Bag Lectures:

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

  • January 11th – “Underrepresented Perspectives on Indigenous Cultural Survival in Southern Africa,” Holly Lemasurier, director, Africa and Oceania, Global Internships
  • January 25th – “Gender, Sexuality, and Marriage in a Changing Papua New Guinea Society," Aletta Biersack, professor, Anthropology
  • February 8th – “Diffusing Ideas: Intellectual Women in Paris since 1945,” Jennifer Duncan, graduate student, History, and instructor, Linn-Benton Community College
  • February 22nd – “Preventing Sexual Violence Against Women: The Role of Self-Defense Training,” Jocelyn Hollander, assistant professor, Sociology
  • March 8th – “Mysterious Women: Memory, Trauma, and Madness in the 19th Century Sensation Narrative,” Katherine Brundan, graduate student, Comparative Literature

Road Scholars:

  • January 18th – Noon at Linn-Benton Community College’s Multicultural Center, Joan Acker, “Renewing Welfare Reform: Will Getting Tougher Reduce Poverty?”
  • January 31st – 1:30pm at OASIS, 100 Valley River Center, Eugene, Mary Anne Beecher, “Martha Stewart and the Tradition of Domestic Advice”
  • February 7th – Noon at Linn-Benton Community College’s Multicultural Center, Dianne Dugaw, “As a Man She Persevered: Fighting & Sailing Women in Folksong”
  • February 9th – 1pm at Peterson Barn, 870 Berntzen Rd., Eugene, Susan Hardwick, “Slavic Deams: The Russian and Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Oregon”
  • February 14th – 1:30pm at OASIS, 100 Valley River Center, Eugene, Debra Gwartney, “In Their Own Words: Women Writing Memoir”
  • February 21st - 1:30pm at OASIS, 100 Valley River Center, Eugene, Susan Hardwick, “Slavic Deams: The Russian and Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Oregon”
  • February 24th – Noon at Linn-Benton Community College’s Multicultural Center, Ellen Scott, “Up Against the World: Caring for Children with Disabilities”
  • February 28th - 1:30pm at River Road Park District, 100 Lake Dr., Eugene, Debra Gwartney, “In Their Own Words: Women Writing Memoir”
  • March 1st – Deschutes Public Library, Mary Anne Beecher, “Martha Stewart and the Tradition of Domestic Advice”
  • March 9th – 1:30pm at River Road Park District, 100 Lake Dr., Eugene, Regina Psaki, “Praise and Blame of Women in the Middle Ages” 

Events:

  • January 18th - 4-5:30pm, Knight Library Browsing Room, "Class Questions: Feminist Answers" with Joan Acker

Spring 2006

Wednesdays at Noon:

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

  • April 18th – “River in the Sea: A Novel,” Tina Boscha, MFA, ’02 in creative writing, intoCareers research analyst, and LCC instructor of Composition
  • April 26th – “Taxes are a Woman’s Issue: Reframing Public Discourse and Research Agendas,” Sandra Morgen, CSWS director and Anthropology professor
  • May 17th – “Bias in Believing Accounts of Child Abuse: The Role of Participant Gender, Media, and Characteristics of Reported Abuse,” Lisa DeMarni Cromer, Psychology graduate student

Road Scholars:

  • April 8th – Deschutes Public Library, Stephanie Wood, “La Malinche”
  • April 21st - Peterson Barn, Eugene, Mary Anne Beecher, “Martha Stewart and the Tradition of Domestic Advice”
  • April 28th - Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Chandler Building, Bend, Stephanie Wood, “Frida Kahlo” 

Events:

  • April 13th - 12pm, 330 Hendricks Hall, “A Limit to Martha Nussbaum’s Universalist Ethics,” S. Charusheela, Associate Professor, Women’s Studies, University of Hawaii-Manoa
  • May 3rd - Browsing Room, Knight Library, 7pm, Noon Colloquium, “Resisting Racist and Gendered Exclusions: Crafting New Notions of Citizenship,” Patricia McFadden, Cosby Endowed Chair in the Social Science and Women’s Research and Resource Center, Spelman College with Public Talk: “Plunder as State-craft: Militarism and Resistance in the Restructuring of the Neo-colonial African State in the Age of Neo-imperialism”
  • May 10th - 4:30-6:30pm, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Farewell Party for Sandra Morgen, CSWS Director