Fall 2016
Lorwin Lectureship Series Events:
- October 13th-14th - Cherrie Moraga, “The Last Exhale of Our Mother’s Breath”, The ‘Work’ of the First Generation Writer
- Keynote for the Lorwin Lecture on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and an activist methods workshop for faculty and graduate students.
- November 9th - “Transformative Philanthropy,” a forum on the unique and particular ways in which social justice philanthropy - both fundraising and grantmaking - can bring, and has brought about, social change for women, LGBTQ people, and people of color.
- Featuring Gabriel Foster, co-founder and Executive Director, Trans Justice Funding Project; Kris Hermanns, CEO, Pride Foundation; and Carol Tatch, Major Giving Director, MRG Foundation.
Noon Talks:
Jane Grant Conference Room, Hendricks Hall 330
- October 26th - Joan Haran, “Imaginactivism: Science Fiction and Social Justice Projects.”
- November 7th - CSWS Graduate Coffee Hour & Grants Information Session with Q&A
Events:
- October 4th - 4-5:30PM, Gerlinger Alumni Lounge, Welcome Reception for New Women Faculty
Winter 2017
Lorwin Lectureship Series Events:
- Janurary 23rd - Saru Jayaraman, “Food First: Justice, Security, and Sovereignty”, a keynote lecture and panel discussion focused on food justice issues.
Events:
- March 3rd - 6th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “Women and Work: Stories of the Great Migration,” featuring Ayana Mathis
- Talk with Ayana Mathis, Downtown Eugene Public Library
- Light reception, JSMA Ford Lecture Hall
- Panel with Ayana Mathis, JSMA Ford Lecture Hall
- Keynote talk with Ayana Mathis, Downtown Eugene Public Library
Spring 2017
Lorwin Lectureship Series Events:
- May 25th - Michelle McKinley, “Fractional Freedoms” Book Celebration
- Keynote talk and panel discussions to celebrate CSWS director Michelle McKinley’s new book, Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700.
Events:
- April 13th - JSMA Ford Lecture Hall, Américas Research Interest Group Roundtable, “Achieving Justice: Gendered Violence, Displacement, and Legal Access in Guatemala and Oregon.”
- April 24th - 3:30PM, Knight Library, Browsing Roomm Evelyn Nakano Glenn, inaugural CSWS Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture: “Settler Colonial Legacies: Racialized and Gendered U.S. Citizenship.”
June 6th - Knight Library Browsing Room, Imagining Freedom Teach-In Series, "The Big Picture: Structural Racism, Equity & Intersectionality,” with Rinku Sen. Sponsored by Ethnic Studies & cosponsored by CSWS.
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Lorwin Series: “Transformative Philanthropy” forum
The Center for the Study of Women in Society will hold two events on Wednesday, November 9, 2016, as part of the 2016-17 Lorwin Lectureship Series. “Transformative Philanthropy” is a forum focused on the unique and particular ways in which social justice philanthropy—both fundraising and grantmaking—can bring, and has brought about, social change for women, LGBTQ people, and people of color.
CSWS Noon Talk: Joan Haran, “Imaginactivism: Science Fiction and Social Justice Projects”
Join us for "Imaginactivism: Science Fiction and Social Justice Projects," a CSWS Noon Talk presented by visiting scholar Joan Haran.
Saru Jayaraman—Food First: Justice, Security, and Sovereignty
Lorwin Lecture Series: Keynote: (3:30–5 pm). “Forked: A New Standard for American Dining”
Saru Jayaraman is the cofounder and codirector of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) and director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley.
The third in the series of our Lorwin endowed lectures invites reflections and debate around the themes of food justice, food sovereignty, and food security. More broadly, the conversation will explore the nuances of each of these aspects of food studies and how they either engage with each other or fail to do so.
2017 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium: featuring Ayana Mathis
The acclaimed, bestselling author will deliver a keynote lecture and participate in a panel discussion focused on her celebrated novel The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, at the 6th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium, “Women and Work: Women’s Stories of Work and the Great Migration.”
Fractional Freedoms: CSWS to Celebrate Director Michelle McKinley's New Book
On May 25, CSWS will celebrate the release of Director Michelle McKinley's book, Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700 (Cambridge University Press, October 2016).
The book explores domestic slavery and what Professor McKinley terms “fractional freedoms” in the context of colonial Peru.
Professor McKinley, in addition to running CSWS, is also the Bernard B. Kliks Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law. You can check her out discussing her book on the website for Studies in Legal History.
Roundtable “Achieving Justice: Gendered Violence, Displacement, and Legal Access in Guatemala and Oregon”
Organized by the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Américas Research Interest Group, this roundtable will explore how gendered violence in Guatemala leads indigenous women to flee the country as refugees to seek asylum in the United States. By putting experts on gendered violence in Central America into conversation with Oregon-based asylum attorneys, the roundtable will explore the legal reforms with greatest potential to provide effective justice for its survivors.
Evelyn Nakano Glenn to deliver inaugural CSWS Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture
Evelyn Nakano Glenn, professor emerita of the Graduate School and founding director, Center for Race and Gender, at the University of California, Berkeley, will deliver the inaugural CSWS Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture on April 24, 2017.
Professor Glenn's books include Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America and Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters.
Rinku Sen talks about the racial justice movement
June 6, 2017—Students, faculty, staff, and community members packed the UO Knight Library Browsing Room to hear Rinku Sen talk about “The Big Picture: Structural Racism, Equity & Intersectionality.” This was Professor Dan HoSang’s final event in the “Imagining Freedom Teach-In Series” not only for the year, but for good, as he heads off to the Ivy League to continue his career. A long-time CSWS faculty affiliate, Dr. HoSang served as head of the UO Department of Ethnic Studies during the 2016-17 AY.