Features:
- Anita Hill: Reflections on the 2024 Lorwin Lecture
- A Message from the CSWS Director, by Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies
- Feminist Futures: Moments from the CSWS 50th Anniversary, by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
- Past Lessons, Future Visions: CSWS Alumni Symposium, by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
- Q&A: Bryant Taylor, by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
- UO Students Reflect on Working for CSWS
- Highlights and Testimonies: Envisioning Feminist Futures in Video, by Agnese Cebere, Pro Tem Instructor, Department of Art
- Designing a Visual Identity for the 50th, by Agnese Cenbere, Pro Tem Instructor, Department of Art
Faculty Research:
- Illustrating Resilience: Children’s Picture Books for Oppressive Times, by Isabel Millán, Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Care: Samoan Feminism, Care Work, and Immaterial Labor, by Lana Lopesi, Assistant Professor, Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies
- Aliens at Home: Myanmar Wives and the Exercise of Border Biopolitics in Yunnan, China, by Xiaobo Su, Professor, Department of Geography
Graduate Student Research:
- ‘Feeling With’ Other Bodies: The Posthuman in Latin American Cinema, by Marena Fleites Lear, PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature
- Power of the ‘Multitude’: Women’s Autobiographical Writings in Latin American Literature, by Magela Baudoin, PhD Candidate, Department of Romance Languages
- Re-examining Context, Culture, and Medium: Gender in South Asian and South Asian American Graphic Novels, by Anu Sugathan, PhD Student, Department of English
- Tempting Bad Taste: Unreading the Failure of Art, Fashion, and Food in Late Modernist Novels, by Min Young Park, PhD Candidate, Department of English
- White Women’s Linguistic Terrorism, by Annie Ring, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy
- A Queer Quantitative Inquiry: Sexual Injustices and Social Contexts, by W. Jamie Yang, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology
- Disclosing Enslaved Women’s Resistance in Puerto Rico’s History of Slavery, by Rosa M. O’Connor Acevedo, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy
Articles
Anita Hill: Reflections on the 2024 Lorwin Lecture
In 1991, Anita Hill started a national conversation on sexual harassment when she testified that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had subjected her to unwanted sexual advances years earlier. Today, Hill is a leader in the fight against gender-based violence.
A Message from the CSWS Director
by Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies
Thank you all for making the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Center for the Study of Women and Society so rich and fruitful! And filled with joy and remembrance. Indeed, it was an eventful 18 months where we collaborated with partners across the disciplines at the University of Oregon to showcase how diverse fields imagine feminist futures and archive feminist pasts at a time when gender and justice are once more at the forefront of our attention globally.
Feminist Futures: Moments from the CSWS 50th Anniversary
by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
Past Lessons, Future Visions: CSWS 50th Anniversary Alumni Symposium
by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
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.
Q&A: Bryant Taylor
by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
For two years, Bryant Taylor, a PhD candidate in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, had a special appointment working as a Graduate Employee (GE) on our 50th anniversary events and projects. I had the opportunity to chat with Bryant about his time at CSWS before he left for a summer internship on an African American archival history project at Harvard University.
Illustrating Resilience: Children’s Picture Books for Oppressive Times
by Isabel Millán, Assistant Professor, Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Care: Samoan Feminism, Care Work, and Immaterial Labor
by Lana Lopesi, Assistant Professor, Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies
Aliens at Home: Myanmar Wives and the Exercise of Border Biopolitics in Yunnan, China
by Xiaobo Su, Professor, Department of Geography
‘Feeling With’ Other Bodies: The Posthuman in Latin American Cinema
By Marena Fleites Lear, PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature
Power of the ‘Multitude’: Women’s Autobiographical Writings in Latin American Literature
by Magela Baudoin, PhD Candidate, Department of Romance Languages
Re-examining Context, Culture, and Medium: Gender in South Asian and South Asian American Graphic Novels
by Anu Sugathan, PhD Student, Department of English
Tempting Bad Taste: Unreading the Failure of Art, Fashion, and Food in Late Modernist Novels
by Min Young Park, PhD Candidate, Department of English
White Women’s Linguistic Terrorism
by Annie Ring, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy
J.L. Austin’s How to Do Things with Words demonstrates that language is not just descriptive but in some cases is performative. That is, Austin’s speech act theory argues that language itself performs, changes, or does things in the world. Speech act theory classically considered institutions like marriage, where a pronouncement weds people into a legally binding relation, or boat christening, where naming and blessing a boat before the maiden voyage protects its passengers (Austin).
A Queer Quantitative Inquiry: Sexual Injustices and Social Contexts
by W. Jamie Yang, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology
Disclosing Enslaved Women’s Resistance in Puerto Rico’s History of Slavery
by Rosa M. O’Connor Acevedo, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy