2014-15 Events

Fall 2014

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

Winter 2015

Noon Talks:

Jane Grant Conference Room, 330 Hendricks Hall

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

Event poster from Megan Burke's event

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.

Spring 2015

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.

Beverly Stoeltje lecture: “Queen Mothers in Contemporary Asante in Ghana: Authority or Decorative Symbol?”

Dr. Stoeltje is Emeritus Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. Over her long career, she has researched and published on topics such as performance, ritual, nationalism, gender, and anthropology of law. Geographically her research focuses on Ghana, West Africa and American West.

Jul 1, 2014

“‘Who is Marjorie Mensah?’ The Educated Woman and the Formation of a Modern West African Nation”

Dr. Prais is the assistant director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. She received her PhD in history and women’s studies from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include citizenship and social movements and colonial and gender identity formation in twentieth-century West Africa. She has received research funding from Columbia’s Committee on Global Thought, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the University of Michigan.

Jul 16, 2014

Yvonne Braun lecture: “Networking for Women’s Rights: Transnational Organizing in Southern Africa”

Dr. Braun is an associate professor in the Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and International Studies at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, environment, development, and globalization, with a specific focus on the social and socio-environmental consequences of a large-scale dam development project in Lesotho, Southern Africa.

Aug 15, 2014

Mare Advertencia Lirika: Zapotec Hip Hop Artist to Perform

Mare, a Zapotec rapper from Oaxaca and founder of Advertencia Lirika, will perform at Beall Concert Hall on the University of Oregon campus at 4 p.m. October 16. Mare uses her rap as a tool to develop consciousness and to build networks within social movements in Oaxaca and elsewhere. Always looking to expose the gender inequality that exists in society, she has worked with a wide range of groups and organizations within Mexico and throughout the world.

Aug 23, 2014

Sacrificing Families: U.S. Policies and the Displacement of Central Americans

“Sacrificing Families: U.S. Policies and the Displacement of Central Americans,” with Leisy J. Abrego, Assistant Professor, UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies. Trained as a sociologist, Abrego studies families, Central American migration, and Latino immigrants’ lived experiences of U.S. immigration laws. She will be discussing insights from her book, Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders.

Jul 18, 2014

Globalization, Gender, and Development Conference

Keynote address with Irene Tinker and Jane Jaquette: Women, Gender and Development: Past Insights, Future Possibilities. Closing keynote address with Kimberly Hoang: Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline and the Hidden Currencies in Global Sex Work.

Jul 19, 2014

"Nature in Doubt: Intersex in a Chemical Era,” with Tyrone Hayes, Elizabeth Reis, and Kari Norgaard

Professor Tyrone Hayes will participate on a panel with CSWS advisory board member Elizabeth Reis, professor and head, UO Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, concerning the implications of his work in the field of gender studies. Kari Norgaard, professor, UO Department of Sociology, will respond to the panel as they consider the notion and rhetoric of “natural” in an environment exposed to hormone-altering herbicides.

Aug 28, 2014

Scholar Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Headlines UO Disability Studies Forum

Professor Rosemarie Garland-Thomson of Emory University, one of the most influential and respected figures in disability studies, will present her current research on the bioethics of technology at the second annual UO Disability Studies Forum.

Jan 12, 2014

CSWS Noon Talk: Megan Burke, “Heterosexuality, Sexual Violence and the Temporality of Femininity”

PhD candidate Megan Burke (philosophy) will give a lunch-time talk related to her dissertation research. This talk will examine the way in which sexual violence is integral to the production and lived experience of gendered subjectivity by focusing on the philosophical question of temporality. Burke’s research and teaching interests include Feminist Philosophy, Existential Phenomenology, 20th Century Continental Philosophy, and Social-Political Philosophy.

Feb 5, 2014

Ileana Rodríguez-Silva: “Gender and Class in the Silencing of Race in Puerto Rico”

Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva is an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Washington, Department of History. She earned her B.A. at the Universidad de Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rodriguez-Silva is the author of the award-winning book Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico.

Dec 17, 2014

Film Showing: “The Supreme Price”

The Supreme Price, directed and produced by Joanna Lipper, is a feature length documentary film that traces the evolution of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Nigeria and efforts to increase the participation of women in leadership roles. Following the annulment of her father’s victory in Nigeria’s presidential election and her mother’s assassination by agents of the military dictatorship, Hafsat Abiola faces the challenge of transforming a corrupt culture of governance into a democracy capable of serving Nigeria’s most marginalized population: women.

Feb 19, 2014

“Habits of Leaking: Of Sluts and Network Cards,” a seminar with Wayne Morse Chair Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Wayne Morse Chair visitor during winter term, will offer a lunchtime seminar at the Center for the Study of Women in Society. The date has been changed to February 19, 2015, at noon. Dr. Chun’s forthcoming article “Habits of Leaking: Of Sluts and Network Cards” will form the basis of her seminar. It is a fascinating analysis of how our public networks blame the user for self-exposure and consequent attacks rather than the very nature of the internet and networks.

Feb 20, 2014

Reading and book signing with acclaimed Canadian writer Louise Dupré

The UO Department of Romance Languages and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History invite you to a reading and book signing by acclaimed Canadian writer Louise Dupré. A major figure in contemporary Quebec literature, Dupré is the author of Plus haut que les flammes, a volume of poetry written after her visit to the sites of former concentration camps in Europe, and L'Album multicolore, a poetic memoir published in 2014. Dupré will read selections of her poetry and prose, both in the original French and in English translation. The event is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served.

Feb 23, 2014

Michael Messner: “Male Allies, and the Politics of Feminist Accountability”

Michael Messner, professor of sociology, University of Southern California, will be the featured speaker for the UO Department of Sociology’s Winter Colloquium #6. He will speak on the subject of “Male Allies, and the Politics of Feminist Accountability.” Messner published most recently Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women.

Feb 24, 2014

Margaret Jacobs, “Remembering the Forgotten Child: the Indigenous Welfare Crisis of the 1960s-1970s”

Margaret Jacobs, Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of Nebraska, will present a public lecture at the University of Oregon on Tuesday, February 24, from 3-5 p.m. in the Knight Library Browsing Room. It will be titled: “Remembering the Forgotten Child: the Indigenous Welfare Crisis of the 1960s-1970s.”

Mar 3, 2014

Anjali Arondekar—“Telling Tales: Sexuality's Fictions”

Anjali Arondekar is an associate professor of Feminist Studies and Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research engages the poetics and politics of sexuality, geopolitics and historiography. Her first book, For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India,/em> won the 2010 Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for best book in lesbian, gay, or queer studies in literature and cultural studies from the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association.

Mar 4, 2014

Nancy Tuana: “Coming to Understand Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance”

Nancy Tuana is the DuPont–Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy and Director, Rock Ethics Institute at Pennsylvania State University. This event is sponsored by the UO Department of Philosophy with support from the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Center for the Study of Women in Society.

Mar 11, 2014

Jafari Sinclaire Allen: “Black/Queer Here & There: Ethnography of An Idea”

Jafari Sinclaire Allen will give a talk on “Black/Queer Here & There: Ethnography of An Idea” on March 11. Dr. Allen is an associate professor of African American studies and anthropology at Yale University who works at the intersections of [queer] sexuality, gender and blackness.

Apr 8, 2014

CSWS Noon Talk: Jenée Wilde, “Bridging Humanities and Social Science Methods in PhD Research”

Jenée Wilde discusses the challenges and rewards of mixing ethnographic research methods with approaches to literary and visual media in her interdisciplinary project “Speculative Fictions, Bisexual Lives: Changing Frameworks of Sexual Desire.”

Jan 1, 2015

“Internal or Transnational? Zapotec Women’s Migration Dilemmas,” a CSWS Noon Talk with Iván Sandoval Cervantes

For women of the Zapotec community of Santa Ana Zegache, discussing migration presents gender specific dilemmas. In this presentation, Iván Sandoval Cervantes provides an historical analysis of the different migration movements in which women from Santa Ana Zegache have participated: Zegacheñas have migrated to Mexico City, to the United States, and to Oaxaca City. He also explores how the constraints that women face before, during, and after migrating are different from those faced by men.

Apr 9, 2014

Johanna Crane: Who is Global Health For? Tenacious Assumptions in Global Health Science

Johanna Crane is a medical anthropologist with a background in English whose research brings together history, science, technological studies, medical humanities, bioethics, and global health. Her book Scrambling for Africa: AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science examines the changing U.S. response to the AIDS epidemic in Africa.

Dec 28, 2014

The Hunting Ground: a screening

The documentary The Hunting Ground will premiere at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, at the University of Oregon’s Global Scholars Hall, 1710 E. 15th Ave., Eugene. A discussion will follow the screening. The Hunting Ground is a startling exposé of rape crimes on U.S. campuses, institutional cover-ups and the brutal social toll on victims and their families. Weaving together verité footage and first-person testimonies, the film follows survivors as they pursue their education while fighting for justice—despite harsh retaliation, harassment and pushback at every level.

Jan 30, 2015

2015 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium

The fourth annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium will be held Thursday May 7, 2015, through Saturday May 9, 2015. Diana Abu-Jaber (Crescent; The Language of Baklava; Birds of Paradise) is the keynote author and will be joined by writers Novella Carpenter (Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer); scholar, activist, social justice novelist, editor Breeze Harper (Sistah Vegan; Scars); poet Donna Henderson (The Eddy Fence), and others.

Jan 14, 2015

Jessaca Leinaweaver: “Collaborative Research on Children, Caregiving, and Migration in Peru”

Jessaca Leinaweaver conducts research in cultural anthropology and anthropological demography within Peru and the Peruvian diaspora. She has published on informal child fostering in the urban Andes, aging in Andean Peru, and transnational adoption and migration from Peru to Spain. She is an associate professor of anthropology at Brown University. She won the Margaret Mead Award for her first book, The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru.