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2012-13 Events

Fall 2012

11/14 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. The Invisible War, 177 Lawrence
9/28, 3-5 p.m. CSWS Faculty Affiliates’ Reception, Gerlinger
10/3, 7:30 p.m. Screening of The Purity Myth (177 Lawrence) with roundtable discussion: The War on Women
10/5, 9 a.m. RIG Quarterly Meeting – Alsea-Coquille
10/10, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. CAS Reception for new women faculty members, Gerlinger
10/17, 12 p.m. Women and the Search for Justice and Reconciliation in Guatemala: Gabriela Martinez—a CSWS Noon Talk, Browsing Room, Knight Library
10/17, 7:30 p.m. CSWS Film Series, Telling Amy’s Story, 177 Lawrence
10/25, 3 p.m. Oregon Suffrage Centennial—UO Libraries Symposium, Browsing Room, Knight Library
11/1, 3 p.m. Lecture: Brenda Frink, Pioneer Mother: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Public Monuments in the U.S. West (3 pm, Many Nations Longhouse)
11/2: Feminist Theory Seminar Series (by invitation)
11/7: Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Fembot)
11/8, 1-4 p.m. (est) “Everyday Racism, Everyday Homophobia” – HASTAC streaming video (co-sponsor WGS)
11/16, noon: CSWS Grant Information Workshop (Jane Grant Room)
11/30, 3-4 p.m. CSWS Grad Coffee Hour: “Feminist Mentoring: Errors and Expectations” (Sandi Morgen, Mia Tuan, Jocelyn Hollander, Carol Stabile)

Winter 2013

1/23: Kate Mondloch, WIP talk (Jane Grant)
1/30, 7:00 p.m., Willamette 100: CSWS Film Series, Bi the Way
1/31, 3:00-5:00 p.m. Sharon Block (History), UC-Irvine. Rape and Sexual Power in Early America, Browsing Room, Knight Library
2/8, 3-4 p.m. CSWS Grad Student Coffee Hour – IRB Roundtable
2/9-2/10 Fembot Unconference, Portland
2/22: Feminist Theory Seminar Series (by invitation)
2/28 T.L. Taylor, “Athletes, Geeks, and Gamers: Exploring Gender and Professional E-sports”
3/8-3/9 Women’s History Month Wikipedia Parties 2013 — Friday, March 8: Sarah Stierch; 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.; Browsing Room, Knight Library. Saturday, March 9; Group Application; 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.; Allen 141.

Spring 2013

4/12, 3-4 p.m. CSWS Grad Student Coffee Hour – “Future of Feminist Research at UO” with CSWS director Carol Stabile, Jane Grant Conference Room, 330 Hendricks Hall
4/18 10:30 a.m. “Putting Hypersexuality to Work: Black Women and Illicit Eroticism in Pornography”—Mireille Miller-Young; Browsing Room, Knight Library
4/24 Karyn Lewis, CSWS Noon Talk: “When Hard Work Doesn’t Pay Off: Exploring Self-Perceptions to Understand the Underrepresentation of Women in STEM,” 330 Hendricks Hall, Jane Grant Room, 1408 University St. Karyn Lewis is a Ph.D. candidate in the UO Department of Psychology. She received a 2010 CSWS graduate student research grant for her work on this research.
4/26 Racial Representations: African American Literature Since 1975
3 p.m., Thursday, May 9, 2013: A Fireside Conversation with Oliver Kellhammer—a permaculture artist, writer, and teacher specializing in ecological restoration and land art—and Jennifer Burns Levin (Honors College), coordinator, CSWS Food in the Field RIG. Location: Hendricks Hall Hearth Room (1st floor), 1408 University St.
5/9-5/11 CSWS Northwest Women Writer’s Symposium

Upcoming Events

Dec 10

CSWS Grant Writing Workshop

CSWS is hosting a Grant Writing Workshop with Michael Murashige, writing consultant for the Center on Diversity and Community (CoDaC), at 12 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 10, in the Knight Library DREAM Lab.

The workshop will help graduate students and first-time faculty applicants write a strong CSWS grant application by reviewing important elements and some common oversights. Register for the workshop here.

Dec 10 - 12:00pm

Knight Library

Jan 21

Wine Chat: “Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities” at Capitello Wines

Kristin Yarris, an associate professor of Global Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, will discuss her edited volume Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities: Engaged Ethnography.

This collection brings together the experiences and voices of anthropologists whose engaged work with im/migrant communities pushes the boundaries of ethnography toward a feminist, care-based, decolonial mode of ethnographic engagement called “accompaniment.”

Jan 21 - 5:30pm

Feb 4

Clark Lecture: Patty Krawec at Knight Library

Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center

Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory and residing in Niagara Falls. She has served on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre and co hosted the Medicine for the Resistance podcast.

Feb 04 - 4:00pm

Latest News

Nov 8, 2024

CSWS Research Grants

CSWS grants info session set for Nov. 18

If your research, scholarship, or creative work engages with the complexities of women’s lives or the complicated nature of intersectional gender identities and inequalities, then you should apply for research funding from the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS).

As the 2025-26 grant funding cycle rapidly approaches, CSWS will be hosting an information session and a grant writing workshop to support graduate students, faculty, and staff through the funding application process.

Oct 9, 2024

In Malayalam soft-porn cinema of the 1990s, female leads were cast as madakarani (sex-siren), a label that symbolized both their narrative role and professional distinction as second-tier contract laborers.

Oct. 25 talk looks at soft-porn in South Asian cinema

Darshana Sreedhar Mini, assistant professor of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be giving a talk Friday, Oct. 25, on "Madakarani as Screen Pleasure: Scandal and Soft-porn Imaginary." The free lecture will be held 3–5 p.m. in 145 Straub Hall, 1451 Onyx St, at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Oct 9, 2024

Moira Fradinger is author of Antigonas: Writing from Latin America.

Oct. 18 talk to explore a decolonial reading of Antigonas

Yale Professor Moira Fradinger will be presenting "A Decolonial Reading: The Case of Latin American Antígonas" on Friday, October 18, 2024. The event will be held 3–5 p.m. in 182 Lillis Hall, 955 E 13th Ave, University of Oregon.