2014-15 Events

Noon Talks:

Jane Grant Conference Room, Hendricks Hall 330

November 19th - Grants Information Session with Q&A with CSWS director Michael Hames-García and associate director Gabriela Martínez
December 3rd - Michael Hames-García, director, CSWS, and professor, Department of Ethnic Studies

African Studies Lecture Series:

12-1:15PM, Knight Library Browsing Room

October 15th - Beverly Stoeltje, Folklore, Indiana University, “Queen Mothers in Contemporary Asante in Ghana: Authority or Decorative Symbol?”
November 4th - Jinny Prais, History and African Studies, Columbia University, “‘Who is Marjorie Mensah?’ The Educated Woman and the Formation of a Modern West African Nation”
November 17th - Yvonne Braun, INTL/WGS, UO, “Networking for Women’s Rights: Transnational Organizing in Southern Africa”

Events:

October 16th - 4:00PM, Beall Concert Hall, Frohnmayer Music Building, Mare Advertencia Lirika: Zapotec Hip Hop Artist to Perform
October 22nd - 12:00PM, Jane Grant Conference Room, 330 Hendricks Hall, CSWS Graduate Student Coffee
October 23rd - 12-1:30 pm, Knight Library, Browsing Room, “Sacrificing Families: U.S. Policies and the Displacement of Central Americans,” with Leisy J. Abrego, Assistant Professor, UCLA, Department of Chicana/o Studies, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Américas Research Interest Group.
October 23rd-24th Globalization, Gender, and Development Conference
October 24th - Clinical Services Building, Panel: “Nature in Doubt: Intersex in a Chemical Era,” with Tyrone Hayes, Elizabeth Reis, and Kari Norgaard
October 24th-25th - Herbicides and Community Health Conference
October 30th - UO Disability Studies Forum

Noon Talks:

Jane Grant Conference Room, 330 Hendricks Hall

January 21st - Megan Burke, “Heterosexuality, Sexual Violence and the Temporality of Femininity.”

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Events:

February 6th - 4-6:00PM, Browsing Room, Knight Library, Ileana Rodríguez-Silva Public Talk. Sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Américas Research Interest Group.
February 18th - 6:30PM, Knight Library, Browsing Room, Film Showing: “The Supreme Price.” Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Gender in Africa and the African Diaspora RIG.
February 19th - 12-1:00PM, “Habits of Leaking: Of Sluts and Network Cards,” a seminar with Wayne Morse Chair Wendy Hui Kyong Chun.
February 20th - 3:00PM, Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Reading and book signing with acclaimed Canadian writer Louise Dupré. Cosponsored by CSWS.
February 23rd - 12:00PM, Prince Lucien Campbell Hall Room 714, Michael Messner, “Male Allies, and the Politics of Feminist Accountability.” Cosponsored by CSWS.
February 24th - 3:00PM, Knight Library Browsing Room, Margaret Jacobs, “Remembering the Forgotten Child: the Indigenous Welfare Crisis of the 1960s-1970s.” Cosponsored by CSWS.
March 3rd - 4:00PM, Knight Library Browsing Room, Anjali Arondekar, “Telling Tales: Sexuality’s Fictions.” Cosponsored by CSWS.
March 4th - 2:00PM, 115 Lawrence Hall, Nancy Tuana, “Coming to Understand Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance.” Cosponsored by CSWS.
March 11th - 5:00PM, Erb Memorial Union, Gumwood Room, Jafari Sinclaire Allen, “Black/Queer Here & There: Ethnography of An Idea.” Cosponsored by CSWS.

Noon Talks:

Jane Grant Conference Room, 330 Hendricks Hall

April 8th - Jenée Wilde, “Bridging Humanities and Social Science Methods in PhD Research.”
- Jenée Wilde is the 2014-15 CSWS Jane Grant Fellowship Award recipient.
April 22nd - “Internal or Transnational? Zapotec Women’s Migration Dilemmas,” with Iván Sandoval Cervantes.

Events:

April 9th - 4-6:00PM, Browsing Room, Knight Library, Johanna Crane Public Talk. Sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Narrative, Health, and Social Justice Research Interest Group.
April 28th - 7:30-9:30PM, Global Scholars Hall, "The Hunting Ground": a screening.
May 7th-9th - 2015 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “Our Daily Bread: Women’s Stories of Food and Resilience”
May 14th - 11:30AM-2:30PM, Graduate Student Lounge, Susan Campbell Hall, Jessaca Leinaweaver Public Talk. Sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Américas Research Interest Group.