2006-07 Events

Winter 2006

Wednesdays at Noon:

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

  • January 17th – “Divine Heresy: Feminist Revisions of Sacred Texts,” Mandolin Brassaw, graduate student, English
  • January 31st – “Urban Catastrophes and Racial Anxieties: Los Angeles and the Politics of Disaster,” Hee-Jung Serentiy Joo, graduate student, Comparative Literature
  • February 21st – “Queering the Quarrel: Contexts and Conflicts in the Sapphic Poetry of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz,” Amanda Powell, senior instructor, Department of Romance Languages
  • February 28th – “Community Engagement and Independent Publishing: Zines and Gender Activism,” Julie Voelker-Morris, instructor, Arts and Administration Program, and coeditor, CultureWork (Published by the Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy) and Rober Voelker-Morris, adjunct instructor, Arts and Administration Program, and project coordinator, Don Hunter Archive, UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History
  • March 14th – “Women’s Hip-Hop in Brazil,” Lillian Lea Barwin Lopez, graduate student, Comparative Literature

Events:

  • February 8th - 2pm, Knight Library Browsing Room, "One-and-a-half Generation Mexican Youth in Oregon: Pursuing the Mobility Dream," Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, professor of Chicano and Latino studies at OSU

Spring 2007

Wednesdays at Noon:

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

  • April 11th - “Women’s Hip-Hop in Brazil,” Lillian Lea Barwin Lopez, graduate student, Comparative Literature
  • April 25th - “Reconstructing Monastic Women’s Musical and Liturgical Life in the Northern Middle Ages,” Alison Altstatt, graduate teaching fellow, Dance
  • May 9th - “Collaboration or Exploitation? Margarete Steffin and Bertolt Brecht,” Dorothee Ostmeier, associate professor, German and Scandinavian Studies
  • May 23rd - “Bringing Gender-Sensitive, Sustainable Redevelopment to Earthquake-Ridden Pakistan,” Amarah Niazi, graduate student, International Studies
  • May 30th - “Sex Style, and War: Aesthetics and Politics in Post 9/11 America,” Bonnie Mann, assistant professor, Philosophy

Events:

  • May 18th, 8:30am to 6:30pm, Fir Room, EMU, "Empires in the 21st Century: Emergence, Contestation, and Gender Conference," Roksana Bahramitash, Concordia University, Angana Chatterji, California Institute of Integral Studies, Purnima Mankekar, UCLA, Valentine Moghadam, Purdue University, and Aihwa Ong, University of California-Berkeley
  • April 17th-19th - "Oaxaca Week", Concepcion Nunez Rey, Margarita Dalton, PhD, and Julia Barco
  • May 25th, Knight Library Browsing Room, "Pedagogy and Imperialism: The Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching about Empire," Liz Philipose, PhD, assistant professor of Women’s Studies at California State University-Long Beach. Sponsored by the Social Science Feminist Network RIG.
  • April 27th, Eugene Hilton, 8:30am-4pm, Intimate Partner Violence, Gender, and Methamphetamine Conference
  • April 13th - 11am-1:30pm, Lecture Hall at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Fourth Annual Currents in Gender Studies Symposium
  • April 12th - 2-5pm, 182 Lillis Hall, Intersex Symposium