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2014-15 Events

Fall 2014

10/15/14 12-1.15 pm. Knight Library Browsing Room Fall 2014 African Studies Lecture Series: Women and Gender in Africa Beverly Stoeltje. Folklore. Indiana University. “Queen Mothers in Contemporary Asante in Ghana: Authority or Decorative Symbol?”
10/16/14 4:00 pm Beall Concert Hall, Frohnmayer Music Building, 961 E. 18th Ave., University of Oregon Mare Advertencia Lirika: Zapotec Hip Hop Artist to Perform
10/22/14, noon. CSWS Graduate Student Coffee – Jane Grant Conference Room, 330 Hendricks Hall
10/23, noon - 1:30 pm “Sacrificing Families: U.S. Policies and the Displacement of Central Americans,” with Leisy J. Abrego, Assistant Professor, UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies. Knight Library, Browsing Room, 1501 Kincaid St. Free & open to public, Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Américas Research Interest Group.
10/23 - 10/24 Globalization, Gender, and Development Conference
10/24/14 Panel: “Nature in Doubt: Intersex in a Chemical Era,” with Tyrone Hayes, Elizabeth Reis, and Kari Norgaard 250 Clinical Services Bldg., 901 E. 18th, UO campus
10/24 - 10/25 Herbicides and Community Health Conference
10/30/14 UO Disability Studies Forum Printable Flyer
11/4/14 12-1.15 pm. Knight Library Browsing Room, Fall 2014 African Studies Lecture Series: Women and Gender in Africa Jinny Prais, History/African Studies. Columbia University. “‘Who is Marjorie Mensah?’ The Educated Woman and the Formation of a Modern West African Nation”
11/17/14 12-1.15 pm. Knight Library Browsing Room Fall 2014 African Studies Lecture Series: Women and Gender in Africa Yvonne Braun, INTL/WGS. UO. “Networking for Women’s Rights: Transnational Organizing in Southern Africa”
11/19/14 Noon Talk: Grants Information Session with Q&A to learn how to apply for CSWS Research Grants with CSWS director Michael Hames-García and associate director Gabriela Martínez, Jane Grant Conference Room, Hendricks Hall 330.
12/3/14 Noon Talk: Michael Hames-García, director, CSWS, and professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, will talk about his current research, Jane Grant Conference Room, Hendricks Hall 330.

Winter 2015

1/21/15, 12-1 pm CSWS Noon Talk: Megan Burke, “Heterosexuality, Sexual Violence and the Temporality of Femininity.” Jane Grant Conference Room, 330 Hendricks Hall.
2/6/15, 4-6 pm Ileana Rodríguez-Silva Public Talk, Browsing Room, Knight Library. Sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Américas Research Interest Group.
2/18/15, 6:30 pm Film Showing: “The Supreme Price” Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Gender in Africa and the African Diaspora RIG. Knight Library, Browsing Room. 1501 Kincaid St.
2/19/15, noon - 1 p.m. “Habits of Leaking: Of Sluts and Network Cards,” a seminar with Wayne Morse Chair Wendy Hui Kyong Chun.
2/20/15, 3pm Reading and book signing with acclaimed Canadian writer Louise Dupré. Museum of Natural and Cultural History, 1680 E 15th Ave., Eugene, OR. Cosponsored by CSWS.
2/23/15 12:00 pm Prince Lucien Campbell Hall (PLC), Rm 714. Michael Messner: “Male Allies, and the Politics of Feminist Accountability.” Cosponsored by CSWS.
2/24/15 3 pm Knight Library Browsing Room, 1501 Kincaid St. Margaret Jacobs, “Remembering the Forgotten Child: the Indigenous Welfare Crisis of the 1960s-1970s.” Cosponsored by CSWS.
3/3/15 4 pm Knight Library Browsing Room, 1501 Kincaid St. Anjali Arondekar—“Telling Tales: Sexuality’s Fictions.” Cosponsored by CSWS.
3/4/15 2pm 115 Lawrence Hall, 1190 Franklin Blvd., UO campus. Nancy Tuana: “Coming to Understand Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance.” Cosponsored by CSWS.
3/11/15 5pm Erb Memorial Union, Gumwood Room. Jafari Sinclaire Allen: “Black/Queer Here & There: Ethnography of An Idea.” Cosponsored by CSWS.

Spring 2015

5/7-5/9 2015 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “Our Daily Bread: Women’s Stories of Food and Resilience”
4/8/15 12-1 pm CSWS Noon Talk: Jenée Wilde, “Bridging Humanities and Social Science Methods in PhD Research.” Jenée Wilde is the 2014-15 CSWS Jane Grant Fellowship Award recipient. Jane Grant Conference Room, 330 Hendricks Hall.
4/9/15 4 pm - 6 pm Johanna Crane Public Talk, Browsing Room, Knight Library. Sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Narrative, Health, and Social Justice Research Interest Group.
4/22/15 12 pm CSWS Noon Talk: “Internal or Transnational? Zapotec Women’s Migration Dilemmas,” with Iván Sandoval Cervantes. Jane Grant Conference Room, 330 Hendricks Hall.
4/28/15 7:30-9:30 pm The Hunting Ground: a screening. Global Scholars Hall, 1710 E. 15th Ave., UO campus
5/14/15 11:30 am - 2:30 pm Jessaca Leinaweaver Public Talk, Graduate Student Lounge, Susan Campbell Hall. Sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Américas Research Interest Group.

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.