Fall 2015
Noon Talks:
Jane Grant Conference Room, Hendricks Hall 330
- October 7th - Graduate Student Coffee Hour
- November 4th - “Meeting Regulations for Human Subjects Research,” a Q&A Session with Carolyn Craig and Mary Hanabury, UO Research Compliance Services.
- December 2nd - “An Army of Some: Recruiting for Difference and Diversity in the U.S. Armed Forces,” Jeremiah Favara, PhD student, SOJC.
- December 8th - CSWS Grants Information Session and Q&A with CSWS interim director Carol Stabile.
Events:
- October 5th-6th - 4-6:00PM, Conference: Studying Sex in China. A cosponsored event.
- October 30th - 1-3:00PM, Browsing Room, Knight Library, “Integrating Campus Sexual Assault into the Curriculum,” with Simona Sharoni
- December 4th-5th - Lillis Hall, James Tiptree, Jr. Symposium. Sponsored by the UO Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, and cosponsored by CSWS.
Winter 2016
Noon Talks:
- January 13th - Knight Library, Collaboration Room, Room 122, “G-Men Masculinity: The FBI’s War on Broadcasting,” Carol Stabile, head, WGS and professor, SOJC
Events:
- March 3rd-4th - The CSWS Narrative, Health, and Social Justice Research Interest Group (RIG) brings Susan Reverby to campus for a public lecture, “Escaping Melodrama: How Should We Think about the Immoral Research Studies in Tuskegee and Guatemala?” on March 3rd and RIG workshop March 4th, 2016.
- Dr. Reverby is the Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and a professor of women’s and gender studies at Wellesley College.
- March 11th-12th - Ms. Fembot 2016: A Digital Initiative for Civic Engagement. Sponsored by The Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, the Fembot Collective, Ms. Magazine, and the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society.
Spring 2016
Americas RIG Public Talks:
Sponsored by the Americas RIG.
- May 11th - 5-6:30PM, Global Scholars Hall, Irma Velásquez, “Activism and Social Change in Postwar Guatemala.”
- June 2nd - 4:30-7:00PM, Knight Library Browsing Room, Jennifer Lawless, "Running from Office: Why Young Americans are Turned Off to Politics."
- June 3rd - 3-5:30PM, Knight Library Browsing Room, Jennifer Lawless, "Increasing the Visibility of Your Humanities or Social Science Research."
Events:
- April 21st - 7-9:00PM, Ford Alumni Center, Giustina Ballroom, Elizabeth Armstrong, “Sex, Alcohol, and Violence: How Status Competition Creates Risk.” Sponsored by CSWS and the Department of Sociology.
- Armstrong is the coauthor of Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality.
- April 29th - 12-1:30PM, Knight Library Browsing Room, Tanisha Ford, “The Politics of Style: Black Women, Social Movements, and Global Fashion Economies.” Sponsored by CSWS and the Department of English.
- Ford is the author of Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul.
- May 3rd - 12-1:15PM, Knight Browsing Room, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, “The Ancient and The Modern Customary and Civil Marriage & Family Law in Gabon.”
- May 6th-7th - 2016 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium: “Crossing Borders: Women’s Stories of Immigration, Migration, and Transition.”
- May 10th - 3-5:30PM, Knight Library Browsing Room, Irma Velásquez, "Combining Activism and Research: Synergies and Obstacles."
- May 12th - 12-1:15PM, Knight Library Studio A, “Love, Money, and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS,” a lecture by Sanyu Mojola
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