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For five decades CSWS has funded feminist scholarship at the University of Oregon. Our mission is simple: we create, fund, share, and support research that addresses the complicated nature of gender identities and inequalities.

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Our faculty and student affiliates generate wide-ranging research on the complexity of women’s lives and the intersecting nature of gender identities and inequalities. Discover what we are working on.

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For five decades, we have funded feminist scholarship at the University of Oregon. Read about our present opportunities and past awards

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As a research center, we disseminate new knowledge on the complicated nature of gender identities and inequalities with other scholars and educators, the public, policymakers, and activists. Keep in touch with the latest news, publications, and media.

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Through event programming and special initiatives, we foster networking, collaboration, and mentorship within our vibrant community of feminist scholars.  Learn more about how to get involved.

Feminist Futures: CSWS 50th Anniversary

The Center for the Study of Women in Society is celebrating 50 years of enriching the University of Oregon community. Starting in Spring 2023, our year-long celebration will include invited speakers, exhibits, performances, and events that speak to intersectional feminist research and the ways in which gender, race, class, ability, and sexual orientation intersect and inform our visions of social justice. As the Center looks ahead to our next five decades, we will explore both the promises for and the imperilment of our “feminist futures” within fraught social, political, and environmental landscapes both nationally and globally. 
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Upcoming Events

Oswaldo Zavala. Speaker Series. Mafias: The Cultures of Narcotraffic. at Lawrence Hall

Mexican scholar and journalist Oswaldo Zavala (professor of Spanish, CUNY) will be talking about his work Drug Cartels Don't Exist, which students will be reading as part of the Spanish 490 and RL623 seminars and Speaker Series: "Mafias and the Cultures of Narcotraffic."

May 15 - 5:00pm

Moira Fradinger. Speaker Series: Mafia, The Cultures of Narcotraffic. at Fenton Hall

Moira Fradinger, Yale University, will be talking about the uses of Antigona in literary representations of violence in authoritarian settings. Students will be reading the performative poetry collection Antígona González as part of the Spanish 490 and RL623 seminars and Speaker Series: "Mafias and the Cultures of Narcotraffic."

May 22 - 5:00pm

Cintia Martínez Velasco. Speaker Series. Mafia: The Cultures of Narcotraffic. at Fenton Hall

Assistant Professor in Philosophy, UO, Cintia Martínez Velasco will be talking about Femicide as Genocide. Students will be reading Sergio González Rodríguez' The Femicide Machine as part of the Spanish 490 and RL623 seminars and Speaker Series: "Mafias and the Cultures of Narcotraffic."

May 22 - 6:30pm
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News

CSWS fiftieth anniversary

May 10 alumni symposium to envision ‘feminist futures’

What does it take to shape a feminist research center? How do we incubate feminist projects and envision feminist futures? These questions and more will be explored May 10 at the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) Alumni Symposium—our culminating fiftieth anniversary event.

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Anita Hill to Discuss Peril and Promise for Feminism May 9

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.

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Videos

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Interview with Avant-Garde Feminist Filmmakers Su Friedrich and Gelare Khoshgozaran
Interview with UO Common Reading Author, Dr. Diana Greene Foster
Interview with Literary Agent, Anjali Singh, and Comic Artist, Shay Mirk

History of CSWS

For 50 years CSWS has funded feminist scholarship at the University of Oregon. Our mission is simple: we create, fund, and share research that addresses the complicated nature of gender identities and inequalities.

Our ability to do this resulted from an incredible act of generosity. In 1983, the hard work and vision of faculty members working in what was then called the Center for the Sociological Study of Women attracted the attention of Fortune magazine editor William Harris. His endowment, the largest single gift ever given to the university at that time, was given in memory of his wife, Jane Grant, an early feminist and co-founder of The New Yorker.

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