Fall 2017
Events:
- October 3rd - 4:00PM, Gerlinger, Welcome Reception: New Women Faculty
- October 12th - 3:30PM, Lillis Hall 182, “Why Aren’t There More Black People in Oregon?: A Hidden History,” Oregon Book Award winner Walidah Imarisha
- November 8th - 4:30PM, 330 Hendricks Hall, Jane Grant Conference Room, CSWS Grants Info Session and Q&A with CSWS director Michelle McKinley
Winter 2018
Events:
- February 2nd - 3:00PM, Poetry Reading: Joy Harjo, American Book Award winner
- February 12th-13th - Redwood Auditorium, "Practicing Resistance: Becoming & Growing as an Ally," with Facilitator Janée Woods.
- February 15th - 330 Hendricks Hall, Jane Grant Conference Room, “The Poverty of Privacy Rights,” Khiara Bridges, Boston University School of Law & Anthropology.
- March 7th - 3:30PM, Browsing Room, Knight Library, 2018 Acker-Morgen Lecture: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, University of Southern California.
Spring 2018
Events:
- April 11th - 3:30PM, Browsing Room, Knight Library, “In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality,” Regina Kunzel, Princeton University.
- April 25th - CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium: “The Border and Its Meaning: Forgotten Stories,” Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami.
- Panel & reception: JSMA Ford Lecture Hall, 2:30PM.
- Keynote: Eugene Public Library, 6PM.
- May 3rd - 12:00PM, 2018 Book Celebration: CSWS Faculty Affiliates
Related Content
"Why Aren't There More Black People in Oregon?: A Hidden History" with Walidah Imarisha
Walidah Imarisha, "Why Aren't There More Black People in Oregon?: A Hidden History,", a talk followed by Q&A. Walidah Imarisha describes herself as an historian at heart, reporter by (w)right, and rebel by reason. Winner of a 2017 Oregon Book Award for creative nonfiction for Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption, she also has edited two anthologies, authored a poetry collection, and is currently working on an Oregon Black history book, forthcoming from AK Press.
Joy Harjo: Poetry Reading
The UO campus will host renowned author Joy Harjo for a poetry reading and other activities on the UO campus on Friday, February 2, 2018, in cooperation with the Eugene Public Library (EPL). Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Joy Harjo is an internationally known poet, writer, performer, and saxophone player of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. Her eight books of poetry include Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave won several awards, including the PEN USA Literary Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the American Book Award.
Practicing Resistance: Becoming & Growing as an Ally
CSWS invites you to join us to learn -- or refresh your knowledge of — how to be a part of The Resistance with TWO days of trainings!
Khiara Bridges: The Poverty of Privacy Rights
Join us for the Inaugural Lecture: Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium. Khiara Bridges teaches at Boston University with a joint appointment in the School of Law and the Anthropology Department.
2018 CSWS Acker-Morgen Lecture: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, professor of sociology and gender studies at the University of Southern California, will deliver the 2018 CSWS Acker-Morgen Lecture. Dr. Parreñas "is an ethnographer whose research examines experiences of migrant workers from the Philippines. Her earlier works examined the constitution of gender in women’s migration. Her more recent works focus on the construction of migrant workers as ‘unfree laborers.’
Queer History Lecture features Princeton scholar Regina Kunzel
Regina Kunzel holds the Doris Stevens Chair and is professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. Kunzel’s work focuses on histories of sexuality in carceral spaces, and on the twined histories of sexual deviance and normalcy. Kunzel’s most recent book, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008), received many awards including the Lambda Literary Award, the American Historical Association’s John Boswell Prize, and the MLA’s Alan Bray Memorial Book Award.
7th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium
Laila Lalami, award-winning novelist and a columnist for The Nation, will read portions of her book The Moor’s Account, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.