2009-10 Events

Noon Talks:

330 Hendricks Hall

October 28th - Alisa Freedman, assistant professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, "Changing Images of Working Women on Japanese Television"
November 18th - Carol Stabile, Director, CSWS, "Grants Question and Answer Session to apply for CSWS Research Grants"

Events:

October 7th - 11:30-1:30, Gerlinger Alumni Lounge, Gerlinger Hall, CSWS Reception for new women faculty
October 21st - 3-5 pm, Fir Room, Erb Memorial Union, Rebecca Wanzo, Women’s Studies, Ohio State University, “Salvation in his Arms?: Racial Reconciliation in a ‘Post’-Racial Era,” co-sponsored ES, WGS, CSWS
October 22nd - 3-5 pm Browsing Room, Knight Library, “I’d Kiss You Now, but I Have to Save the World!”: Gender and Superheroes Roundtable, co-sponsored WGS, ASUO Women’s Center

Noon Talks:

330 Hendricks Hall, unless otherwise specified

January 13th - 12-1:30PM, Gumwood Room, Erb Memorial Union, Scott Coltrane, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, “Men and Family Work: What’s Changing, What’s Not”
- Scott Coltrane has a new article coming out in the journal Sex Roles (Mexican American men and housework/child care), and an article in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences on social policy and men’s family work, and a chapter in a book in the Real Utopias series at University of Wisconsin that asks how gender equality could be promoted via leave and childcare programs.
Feburary 10th - Jennifer Erickson, graduate student, Anthropology, “Gendered Citizenship and the State in a Neoliberal Era: Refugees and Social Service Organizations in Fargo, North Dakota"
March 10th - Deborah Olson, assistant professor, Special Education, “Understanding Disabled Women’s Experience with Abuse”

Women of Color Project Events:

Feburary 4th - 2:00-4:00 Browsing Room, Knight Library, Gina Dent, professor, Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz, "Transforming Feminisms"
March 4th - 3:00-5:00 Erb Memorial Union, Ballroom, Film: “Finding Face” by filmmaker Patti Duncan, associate professor, Women's Studies, Oregon State University

Noon Talks:

330 Hendricks Hall

April 14th - Christina O'Bryan, doctoral candidate, Anthropology, “Gender and Self: Sociospatial Mobility among Afghan Women in Multicultural Vancouver, British Columbia”
June 2nd - Bryna Tuft, graduate student/GTF, East Asian Languages and Literatures, “A Fine and Private Place: Literary Privacy and Feminist Politics of the Self in the Works of the Avant-Garde Women Writers”

Women of Color Project Events:

May 21st - 10:00-12:00PM, Room 125, McKenzie Hall, Kamala Visweswaran, associate professor, Anthropology and Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin, “Gendered States: Rethinking Culture as a Site of South Asian Human Rights Work.”
- This lecture explores the place of culture talk in debates about women’s rights in South Asia, in particular, the nexus between human rights reporting on South Asia, feminist legal theory and gender asylum testimony.
June 4th - Celebrating Research by Women of Color, Gerlinger Alumni Lounge
- This event honored University of Oregon women of color faculty whose articles and books were published from 2008-2010. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Women of Color Project.