2007-08 Events

Fall 2007

Wednesdays at Noon:

330 Hendricks Hall, 12:00 to1:00 PM

  • October 24th – “Feminist Perspectives on Gender Differences in Traumatic Stress,” S. Shin-Shin Tang, graduate student, Psychology
  • November 14th – “CSWS Research Grants Question and Answer Seminar,” Judith Musick, associate director, Center for the Study of Women in Society
  • November 28th – “Employing Technology to Analyze Gender Roles in Mesoamerican Manuscripts: Recent Advances in the Mapas Project,” Judith Musick and Stephanie Wood, both associate directors at CSWS

Events:

  • Immigration Project Speakers, Presented by the Women in the Northwest Initiative’s Project on Gender, Families, and Immigration. Browsing Room, Knight Library, Receptions 3:30pm, Lectures 4:00pm.
    • October 15th – “Transnational Remittances of Caribbean Immigrant Families in Canada,” Dwaine Plaza, associate professor of Sociology, OSU
    • November 7th – “Cesar Chavez and the Politics and Promise of Mexican Immigration,” Joseph Orosco, assistant professor of Philosophy, OSU

Winter 2008

Noon Talks:

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

  • January 16th - “Confessions of a Queer-spawn-Writing Humorous Memoir on Serious Social Issues,” Mellisa Hart, adjunct professor, School of Journalism and Communication
  • February 6th - “Squaw: Discourse, Stereotypes, and Indigenous Women,” Debra Merskin, associate professor, School of Journalism and Communication
  • February 20th - “When Flags Flew High: Propaganda, Memory and Oral History for World War II Female Veterans,” Kathleen Ryan, graduate teaching fellow, School of Journalism and Communication
  • March 5th - “The Reproduction of Inequality: The Social Organization of Work at Large Scale Development Projects,” Yvonne Braun, assistant professor, Department of Sociology
  • March 12th - “Sex, Style and War: Aesthetics and Politics in Post 9/11 America,” Bonnie Mann, assistant professor, Department of Philosophy

Events:

  • March 10th - 3:30pm, Browsing Room, Knight Library, “Mexican Immigration in Oregon: Gender and Family Issues” Panel: Lynn Stephen, professor, Department of Anthropology, and Heather McClure, research associate, Oregon Social Learning Center. Reception to follow.

Spring 2008

Wednesdays at Noon:

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

  • April 16th – “Family and the State in the New Generation of Chilean Women Writers” by Yossa Vidal-Collados, graduate student, Department of Romance Languages
  • April 30th – “The Self between Languages and Places as Part of Diasporic Sephardic Identities: A Transnational Poetics of Jewish Languages” by Monique Balbuena, assistant professor, Clark Honors College
  • May 7th – “Our Roots Run Deep as Iornweed: Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in the Appalachian Coalfields” by Shannon Bell, graduate teaching fellow, Department of Sociology
  • May 14th – “Love and Blood: Petty Urbanities Write Emotion in 1920s Shanghai” by Bryna Goodman, professor, Department of History
  • June 4th – “Gender Identification, Sex Roles, and Gender Role Conflict Measurement: Development and Refinement of the Gender Traits and Behaviors Scale and the Gender Role Conflict and Traditionalism Scale” by Sean M. Laurent, graduate student, Department of Psychology

Events:

  • April 25th - 6:30pm, Cesar Chavez Elementary School, 1410 W. 14th Ave, Eugene, “Letters form the Other Side”. Sponsored by the CSWS Project on Gender, Families, and Immigration.
  • May 22nd-23rd - 175 Knight Law Center, Conference on Gender, Families, and Latino Immigration in Oregon