Acker-Morgen Lecture

Durba Mitra speaking at the Acker-Morgen Lecture

What If Gathering Together Liberated Us?

The Ford Lecture Hall is buzzing as students and faculty chat animatedly, plates of food and drinks in hand. At the front of the high-ceilinged room in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, guest of honor Dr. Durba Mitra chats amiably with CSWS Director Sangita Gopal. There’s a communal feeling in this space that reflects the focus of tonight’s talk: What if gathering together liberated us?
Raka Ray / photo by Jack Liu

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:  

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

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.’

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First Acker-Morgen Lecture will honor two UO feminist scholars

When Joan Acker, who helped found the Center for the Study of Women in Society, and Sandra Morgen, a longtime center director, passed away last year the UO lost two powerful feminist voices. But their messages will continue with the inaugural Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture, which will be held in the Knight Library Browsing Room starting at 3:30 p.m. Monday, April 24.

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