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.
November TBD – Graduate Student Grants Info Session.
December TBD – New Faculty Welcome and Holiday Party.
December TBD – Grant Writing Workshop.

Winter 2026

Spring 2026

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Upcoming Events

Sep 26

Consortium of Oregon Diversity and Equity Scholars Conference

This mini-academic conference aims to bring together Diversity Science scholars from all disciplines, based in Oregon, to foster interdisciplinary dialogue, discuss strategies to reduce group-based discrimination, and promote the inclusion of marginalized groups. Event highlights include keynote speaker, networking sessions, short talks, poster sessions, and scholars from Univeristy of Oregon, Oregon State University, Portland State University, Reed College, and more.

Sep 26 - 9:00am

Oct 1

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. Career and tenure-track faculty are encouraged to submit fellowship applications for research-based and creative projects from across the disciplines. Also, learn about changes to the CSWS Faculty Research Grants (up to $6,000).

Oct 01 - 4:00pm

Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

Latest News

Jul 7, 2025

Picgtured from left: Data management librarian Erin Winter, research assistant Michele Pflug, and principal investigator Mattie Burkert. Photo by Nate Kersey.

Burkert's London Stage Datatbase project featured in CAS Connection

Excerpted from June 9 CAS Connection, story by Jenny Brooks — Going to the theater in London in the 18th century was a good time—and a transformative time. Playhouses across the city were bursting with activity as crowd-pleasing favorites from the heyday of Shakespeare mixed with slapstick entertainments and boundary-pushing artistic experimentation. These shows drew lively, often raucous audiences from a mix of social and economic classes that seldom crossed paths elsewhere.

Jun 11, 2025

New CSWS fellowship offers a course release for research on gender

For AY 2026-27, the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) is launching a new 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.

Jun 2, 2025

Karen Guillemin (left) is a biology professor who studies the microbial communities that make up each and every organism.

Guillemin named as 'Emerging Inventor'

From Oregon News — CSWS affiliate Karen Guillemin, Biology, has been named to the National Academy of Inventors, a designation that recognizes visionaries and innovators whose technologies brought, or aspire to bring, a real impact on society.

May 21, 2025

CSWS announces 2025-26 Research Interest Groups

CSWS is awarding grant support to four new and three renewing Research Interest Groups (RIGs) spanning the social sciences, humanities, law, and education for the 2025-26 academic year.

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