Major Events

A Decolonial Reading: The Case of Latin American Antígonas at Lillis Business Complex, Friday Oct 18, 2024 - 3:00pm

• Moira Fradinger is Associate Professor in the department of Comparative Literature at Yale University. She 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.

Madakarani as Screen Pleasure: Scandal and Soft-porn Imaginary at Straub Hall, Friday Oct 25, 2024 - 3:00pm

• 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.

The Future of Multiracial Democracy at Knight Law Center, Tuesday Oct 29, 2024 - 5:15pm

• Featuring Sara Sadhwani, assistant professor of politics at Pomona College. Sadhwani specializes in Asian American and Latino voting behavior, elections, interest groups and representation.

Wine Chat: “Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities” at Capitello Wines, Tuesday Jan 21, 2025 - 5:30pm

• 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.

Outliers and Outlaws: Documentary Screening and Q&A, Sunday Feb 2, 2025 - 2:00pm, Straub Hall, Room 156

• A story of lesbian world-builders, Outliers and Outlaws uncovers the fabulous history of a large and vibrant lesbian community in Eugene, Oregon.

Gender as Target: US 2024 Elections and Aftermath, Friday Feb 28, 2025 - 4:00pm, 145 Straub Hall

• 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.

O’Fallon Lecture: Candace Bond-Theriault, Tuesday Mar 4, 2025 - 4:00pm

• 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.

CSWS Events

CSWS Grants Information Session, Monday Nov 18, 2024 - 4:00pm, Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

• 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.

CSWS Grant Writing Workshop, Tuesday Dec 10, 2024 - 12:00pm, Knight Library

• 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.

CSWS Happy Hour & Open House, Friday Feb 14, 2025 - 3:00pm, Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

• Join CSWS for an afternoon of conversation, connection, and celebration of the important work being done in feminist research.

Info Session: CSWS Undergraduate STEAM Summer Fellowship, Wednesday Feb 12, 2025 - 3:00pm, Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

• An info session will be held 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, in 330 Hendricks (CSWS Jane Grant Room) for students and advisors interested in applying to the 2025 CSWS Undergraduate STEAM Summer Fellowship.

CSWS Research Interest Group Info Session, Wednesday Apr 9, 2025 - 3:00pm, Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

• 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.

CSWS Spring Open House, Friday Apr 18, 2025 - 3:00pm, Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

• 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.

CSWS End-of-year Celebration, Monday Jun 9, 2025 - 4:00pm, Oakshire Brewing Public House

• 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.

CSWS Noon Talks

Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

CSWS Noon Talk: Sarah Agou, Friday Feb 7, 2025 - 12:00pm

• "From Enclosure to (Re)Grounding: The Reversibility of Colonial Debt Structures in Contemporary Cinema—
Freda (Caroline Monnet, 2021) and Bootlegger (Gessica Généus, 2021)"

CSWS Noon Talk: Margaryta Golovchenko, Wednesday Feb 19, 2025 - 12:00pm

• "Rosa Bonheur’s Multimodal Menagerie"

CSWS Noon Talk: Alisa Freedman, Wednesday Feb 26, 2025 - 12:00pm

• "Telling the Stories of Vietnamese Women Educators and Their New Fields"

CSWS Noon Talk: Julie Weise, Wednesday Mar 12, 2025 - 12:00pm

• “Rethinking the Masculinization of the Postwar Labor Migrant”

CSWS Noon Talk: Moe Gámez and Madison Fowler, Friday Apr 11, 2025 - 12:00pm

• "Remembering Queer and Trans of Color Resistance at Stonewall National Monument"

CSWS Noon Talk: Malvya Chintakindi, Wednesday Apr 16, 2025 - 12:00pm

• "In Pursuit of 'Good Life': Gender, Caste and Class in India's Shadow Economy"

CSWS Noon Talk: Bex MacFife, Friday Apr 25, 2025 - 12:00pm

• "The Case of the Missing Clitoris: Dis/attending to Sex and Pleasure in Healthcare"

CSWS Noon Talk: Sammy Plezia, Wednesday Apr 30, 2025 - 12:00pm

• “‘Girls should be like this’: Impacts of Beauty Standards on Adolescent Girls in Goa, India”

CSWS Noon Talk: Gretchen Nihill, Wednesday May 21, 2025 - 12:00pm

• "Signaling Safety for Women of Color: The Importance of Precision in Addressing Intersecting Identity Threat"

CSWS Noon Talk: Yuan Fang, Friday May 30, 2025 - 12:00pm

• “Mirror, Mirror, Who Held the Power After All?”: Rethinking Sex and Gender in Ancient China through the Lens of Bronze Mirrors”

CSWS Noon Talk: Rhiannon Lindgren, Wednesday Jun 4, 2025 - 12:00pm

• "Love and Reproductive Struggles: A Feminist Politics of Care"