2025-26 Events

Fall 2025

October 1 – New CSWS Faculty Fellowship Info Session. Come learn about the new CSWS Faculty Research Fellowship that provides University of Oregon faculty with one course release for a term of reduced or no teaching to pursue work on any aspect of the study of women and/or gender.
October 31 - CSWS Open House. Join us for our Dark Academia Halloween Party!
November 10 – Graduate Student Grants Info Session.
December 1 – New Faculty Welcome and Holiday Party.
December 9 – Grant Writing Workshop.

Winter 2026

February 13 - CSWS Open House. Join us for our Dark Valentine's Party!
February 18 - STEAM Info Session.
March 4 - Noon Talk with Nashit Parvez.

Spring 2026

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Upcoming Events

Apr 8

Info Session: Research Interest Groups (RIGs)

Graduate students and faculty are invited to apply for up to $1,000 in funding to organize CSWS Research Interest Groups (RIGs) for the 2026-27 academic year. An info session for prospective and returning RIG applicants will be held 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 8 in the CSWS Jane Grant Room (330 Hendricks Hall).

Apr 08 - 4:00pm

Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

Apr 22

Salar Mameni Workshop: War and Ecology

Salar Mameni, associate professor of ethnic studies at UC Berkeley, will be leading a graduate student reading group on the theme of "war and ecology." Participants will read Mameni's book Terracene in connection with Munira Khayyat's book A Landscape of War and a short essay by the artist Jumanna Manna titled "Where Nature ends and Settlements Begin."

Registration deadline is 5 p.m. Monday, March 16 and is limited to first come, first served. Materials and lunch will be provided to registered participants.

Apr 22 - 12:00pm

Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

Apr 29

Noon Talk: Joyce Wei-Jo Chen

Joyce Wei-Jo Chen, Assistant Professor, School of Music and Dance, “Cherchez la femme: Music by Baroque Women Composers.”

Apr 29 - 12:00pm

Latest News

Mar 18, 2026

Alisa Freedman teaches her Japanese Popular Culture class at the UO.

Alisa Freedman featured in CAS Connection

Japanese Popular Culture and the World is a well-attended class in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) taught by Alisa Freedman, professor of Japanese literature and culture and CSWS faculty research fellow. She created the class a decade ago to help students better understand the trends they love, their culture and social meanings, and the patterns of globalization they represent.

Mar 18, 2026

RIG info session set for April 8

Graduate students and faculty are invited to apply for up to $1,000 in funding to organize CSWS Research Interest Groups (RIGs) for the 2026-27 academic year. An info session for prospective and returning RIG applicants will be held 4–5 p.m. Wednesday, April 8 in the CSWS Jane Grant Room (330 Hendricks Hall).

Mar 9, 2026

CSWS announces 2026-27 faculty research fellowships

CSWS is pleased to announce that Smadar Ben-Natan, assistant professor of global studies, and Hannah Thomas, assistant professor of dance, are the first recipients of a competitive new Faculty Research Fellowship that provides one course release for 2026-27 to pursue work on any aspect of the study of women and/or gender.

Feb 18, 2026

Pictured is Ernesto Javier Martinez and Adelina Anthony.

Martinez awarded prestigious Oregon-based Fields Fellowship

On Jan. 13, 2026, Martínez was awarded $150,000 over two years from the Oregon Community Foundation in partnership with Oregon Humanities. The fellowship supports Oregon artists who use creativity and cultural expressions to address communities. The fellowship award comes at a time when Martínez is wrapping up and beginning film stories that tell the experiences of queer Latinx youth and the immigrant experience in the US.

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