Fall 2024

Events:

• October 18th - 3:00PM, Lillis Business Complex, "A Decolonial Reading: The Case of Latin American Antígonas," Moira Fradinger, Associate Professor in Comparative Literature, Yale University.
  • Moira Fradinger is the author of Antígonas: Writing From Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2023), the first book in the English language to approach classical reception through the study of one classical fragment as it circulates throughout Latin America.
• October 25th - 3:00PM, Straub Hall, "Madakarani as Screen Pleasure: Scandal and Soft-porn Imaginary," Dr. Darshana Sreedhar Mini.
  • In this talk, Dr. Darshana Sreedhar Mini explores soft-porn’s invocation of the figure of madakarani to chart out different spectatorial relations built through her presence as an embodiment of screen pleasures.
• October 29th - 5:15PM, Knight Law Center, "The Future of Multiracial Democracy," Sara Sadhwani, Assistant Professor of Politics at Pomona College.
  • Sadhwani specializes in Asian American and Latino voting behavior, elections, interest groups and representation.
• November 18th - 4:00PM, Hendricks 330, CSWS Grants Information Session
  • UO graduate students, faculty, and staff—come learn how to apply for CSWS research grants in this information session, including the prestigious Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship.
• December 10th - 12:00PM, Knight Library DREAM Lab, CSWS Grant Writing Workshop
  • CSWS is hosting a Grant Writing Workshop with Michael Murashige, writing consultant for the Center on Diversity and Community (CoDaC).

Winter 2025

Noon Talks:

Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

• February 7th - Sarah Agou, "From Enclosure to (Re)Grounding: The Reversibility of Colonial Debt Structures in Contemporary Cinema—
Freda (Caroline Monnet, 2021) and Bootlegger (Gessica Généus, 2021)"
• February 19th - Margaryta Golovchenko, "Rosa Bonheur’s Multimodal Menagerie"
• February 26th - Alisa Freedman, "Telling the Stories of Vietnamese Women Educators and Their New Fields"
• March 12th - Julie Weise, “Rethinking the Masculinization of the Postwar Labor Migrant”

Events:

• January 21st - 5:30PM, 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.
• February 2nd - 2:00PM, 156 Straub Hall, Outliers and Outlaws: Documentary Screening and Q&A
  • A story of lesbian world-builders, Outliers and Outlaws uncovers the fabulous history of a large and vibrant lesbian community in Eugene, Oregon.
• February 12th -  3:00PM, Hendricks 330, Info Session: CSWS Undergraduate STEAM Summer Fellowship
  • An info session will be held for students and advisors interested in applying to the 2025 CSWS Undergraduate STEAM Summer Fellowship.
• February 14th - 3:00PM, Hendricks 330, CSWS Happy Hour & Open House
  • Join CSWS for an afternoon of conversation, connection, and celebration of the important work being done in feminist research.
• February 28th - 4:00PM, 145 Straub Hall, Gender as Target: US 2024 Elections and Aftermath
  • CSWS hosts a teach-in on gender and politics in the 2024 election cycle and how the new political landscape is shaping up for important feminist issues. Panelists: Professor Alison Gash, Political Science; Associate Professor Anita Chari, Political Science; Kaito Campos de Novais, Anthropology; Brennan Fitzgerald, Chemistry and Biochemistry.
• March 4th - 4:00PM, O’Fallon Lecture: Candace Bond-Theriault
  • Candace Bond-Theriault, JD., LL.M. (she/her/hers) is a Black queer feminist lawyer, professor, writer, mother, and social justice advocate working at the intersections of law, policy, reproductive health rights, racial justice, LGBTQIA+ liberation, economic justice, and democracy reform. She is Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Howard University, and Associate Director for Movement Building at Dēmos: a think tank for the Racial Justice Movement.

Spring 2025

Noon Talks:

Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

• April 11th - Moe Gámez and Madison Fowler, "Remembering Queer and Trans of Color Resistance at Stonewall National Monument"
• April 16th - Malvya Chintakindi, "In Pursuit of 'Good Life': Gender, Caste and Class in India's Shadow Economy"
• April 25th - Bex MacFife, "The Case of the Missing Clitoris: Dis/attending to Sex and Pleasure in Healthcare"
• April 30th - Sammy Plezia, “‘Girls should be like this’: Impacts of Beauty Standards on Adolescent Girls in Goa, India”
• May 21st - Gretchen Nihill, "Signaling Safety for Women of Color: The Importance of Precision in Addressing Intersecting Identity Threat"
• May 30th - Yuan Fang, “Mirror, Mirror, Who Held the Power After All?”: Rethinking Sex and Gender in Ancient China through the Lens of Bronze Mirrors”
• June 4th - Rhiannon Lindgren, "Love and Reproductive Struggles: A Feminist Politics of Care"

Events:

• April 9th - 3:00PM, Hendricks 330, CSWS Research Interest Group Info Session
  • Graduate students and faculty are invited to apply for up to $1,000 in funding to organize CSWS Research Interest Groups (RIGs) for the 2025-26 academic year.
• April 18th - 3:00PM, Hendricks 330, CSWS Spring Open House
  • We’re excited to invite our affiliates, friends, and community members to a special gathering where we can share inspiration, celebrate our collective work, and renew our commitment to advancing feminist research and social change.
• June 9th - 4:00PM, Oakshire Brewing Public House, CSWS End-of-year Celebration
  • Come connect, reflect, and share moments of gratitude for the work we’ve done together this year. Whether you’re a longtime affiliate, a student researcher, a supporter, or someone who found us this year—we’d love to see you there.