2026 Acker-Morgen Lecture
What If Gathering Together Liberated Us?
CSWS Open House
CSWS to host Fall Open House Nov. 6
The University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) invites students, faculty, staff, alumni, community partners, and friends to its Fall Open House from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, in the CSWS Jane Grant Room, Hendricks Hall 330.
Feminist Futures
CSWS sponsors Nov. 13 Utopia Studies Conference panel
Grant Writing Workshop
CSWS Event Highlights
Gender as Target: US 2024 Elections and Aftermath
Graduate students reflect on a CSWS teach-in about gender and politics in the 2024 election cycle and how the new political landscape is shaping up for important feminist issues.
Reflections on Anita Hill: 2023–24 Lorwin Lecture
CSWS affiliates reflect on the 2023-24 Lorwin Lecture on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties presented by award-winning author, educator, and lawyer Anita Hill. The talk explored what this committed feminist fighter has learned from her advocacy around issues of gender violence and the perils and promises our current moment holds for "feminist futures."
Feature: Ghost Forest + Wildfire
Ghost Forest was an exhibition by Eugene photographer Sarah Grew, featuring Jon Bellona’s sound installation Wildfire on view April 24–May 4, 2023, at the LaVerne Krause Gallery. This exhibition was part of “Haunting Ecologies: The Past, Present, and Future of Feminist and Indigenous Approaches to Forest Fire,” a CSWS and UO Environment Initiative partnership.
CSWS Event Highlights
Feminist Futures: Moments from the CSWS 50th Anniversary
by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
Right from the start, CSWS leaders, affiliates, and collaborators imagined our 50th anniversary as an opportunity to reach beyond the usual partnerships. From the UO Environmental Initiative to the School of Music and Dance, and from UO Common Reading to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, we built a program of events that speak to the ways that intersectional feminism informs research, scholarship, and creative production across the University of Oregon and shapes our collective visions of social justice.
Reflections on Gender, Sexuality, and Power
CSWS sponsored three talks during winter and spring 2023. We invited five of our graduate student affiliates below to share some thoughts on the talks’ themes.
February 16: “Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America”
March 13: “The Right’s Gender Wars and the Assault on Democracy”
April 21: “Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics”
Reflecting on the 2022 Acker–Morgen Memorial Lecture
This spring, CSWS resumed the Acker–Morgen Memorial Lecture series after winter weather and pandemic conditions had thwarted the event for the last three years. On May 20, we were thrilled to welcome on campus Dr. Raka Ray, a professor of sociology and South and Southeast Asia studies and dean of social sciences at UC Berkeley. She specializes in gender and feminist theory, domination and inequality, the emerging middle classes, and social movements. Below, political science graduate student Olivia Atkinson offers a personal reflection on Ray’s talk: