Events
50th Events
Impact
50th Impact
Event Highlights
Haunting Ecologies
“Haunting Ecologies: The Past, Present, and Future of Feminist and Indigenous Approaches to Forest Fire” is a CSWS and UO Environment Initiative partnership. It includes the 2023 Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture by invited scholar Michelle Murphy, and the panel discussion “Native Ecologies” on Indigenous histories and approaches to fire management, knowledge production, and ecological stewardship. The lecture and panel discussion are presented in conjunction with “Ghost Forest”—an exhibition by Eugene artist Sarah Grew at the LaVerne Krause Gallery, featuring Jon Bellona’s sound installation “Wildfire.”
50th Anniversary Alumni Symposium
On May 10, 2024, three panels of faculty affiliates, former grant fellows, and friends of the Center for the Study of Women in Society participated in our 50th Anniversary Alumni Symposium. The “Shaping a Feminist Research Center” leadership panel opened the event with stories of what influenced CSWS’s identity as a feminist research center over time. Next, the “Incubating Feminist Futures” special projects panel shared the history and important outcomes of several CSWS research interest groups and initiatives. Finally, the “Envisioning Feminist Futures” alumni panel discussed the long-term impacts of funding feminist research, scholarship, and creative work for UO graduate students and faculty.
50th Anniversary Lorwin Lecture
Thirty-three years ago, Professor Anita Hill started a national conversation on sexual harassment in testifying against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. On May 9, she visits the University of Oregon to discuss the ongoing fight against gender-based violence in this year’s Lorwin Lecture on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
Reflections & Impacts
Feminist Futures: Moments from the CSWS 50th Anniversary
by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
Right from the start, CSWS leaders, affiliates, and collaborators imagined our 50th anniversary as an opportunity to reach beyond the usual partnerships. From the UO Environmental Initiative to the School of Music and Dance, and from UO Common Reading to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, we built a program of events that speak to the ways that intersectional feminism informs research, scholarship, and creative production across the University of Oregon and shapes our collective visions of social justice.
Encountering Women’s History in a CSWS Calderwood Seminar
by Jenée Wilde, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of English
In the Jane Grant Room at CSWS, a dozen students gather around the conference table as their instructor gets the workshop started. This week, classmates in group A are the editors, providing detailed critical and generative feedback to the op-ed writers in group B. Next week, their roles will be reversed. “I really liked that one week we were an editor and the next week we were writing,” said Tanya Gunarathne, a general social science education major and nontraditional student at UO. “Being able to comment on our classmates’ work was intimidating at first, but after a while I was excited to see what everybody wrote, and they were excited to see what I wrote. It was an awesome thing to see.”
Personal Stories Inspire Summer Undergraduate Research Projects
by Jenée Wilde, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of English
The Center for the Study of Women in Society has launched a new student-centered research initiative—the CSWS Undergraduate STEAM Summer Fellowship. Over the summer, undergraduate fellows collaborated with University of Oregon faculty mentors to develop interdisciplinary research and creative projects that engage with STEAM fields—science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. Our STEAM fellows approach their inquiry with gender and intersectionality as an analytical framework.