Media

CSWS Presents: Avant-Garde Feminist Filmmakers

CSWS interviews avant-garde feminist filmmakers Su Friedrich and Gelare Khoshgozaran on their film practices, how their films contact to feminist missions, and what they hope to see in a feminist future. The interview was filmed on November 7, 2023, as a part of the CSWS 50th anniversary celebration.

Affiliate News

Burkert's London Stage Datatbase project featured in CAS Connection

Excerpted from June 9 CAS Connection, story by Jenny Brooks — Going to the theater in London in the 18th century was a good time—and a transformative time. Playhouses across the city were bursting with activity as crowd-pleasing favorites from the heyday of Shakespeare mixed with slapstick entertainments and boundary-pushing artistic experimentation. These shows drew lively, often raucous audiences from a mix of social and economic classes that seldom crossed paths elsewhere. 

Affiliate Awards

Guillemin named as 'Emerging Inventor'

From Oregon NewsCSWS affiliate Karen Guillemin, Biology, has been named to the National Academy of Inventors, a designation that recognizes visionaries and innovators whose technologies brought, or aspire to bring, a real impact on society.

Center News

New CSWS fellowship offers a course release for research on gender

For AY 2026-27, the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) is launching a new research fellowship that provides University of Oregon faculty with one course release for a term of reduced or no teaching to pursue work on any aspect of the study of women and/or gender.

Research Spotlight

Faith Barter explores antebellum Black authorship in new book

A new book by CSWS affiliate Faith Barter, assistant professor of English at the UO, explores Black writers as architects of legal possibility in the antebellum South. Her book, Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature (2025) was published by University of North Carolina Press. She received a 2019-20 CSWS Faculty Research Grant for this project.

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Features: CSWS Campus Collaborations

Ghost Forest exhibit image.

Exhibition: 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, University of Oregon. 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.

Two dancers on stage during the SOMD performance.

Feminist Futures: An Evening of Song and Dance by SOMD Faculty

Interviews with faculty at the School of Music and Dance about their work for this performance, which took place on March 8, 2024. The collaboration with SOMD was part CSWS's 50th anniversary celebration.

Opening day for the Feminist Futures exhibit.

Exhibition: Feminist Futures at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

This video features interviews with UO faculty artists and curators of the exhibition Artists, Constellations, and Connections: Feminist Futures, which was on view from January 27, 2024, to June 17, 2024. Placing current work by studio art faculty alongside works they selected from the JSMAs permanent collection, the exhibition explored critical questions about artmaking, history, the future, and feminist models of intersectional inquiry in the current moment of great social, political, and environmental change.

CSWS Research Publications

2024 Annual Review

  • Anita Hill: Reflections on the 2024 Lorwin Lecture
  • A Message from the CSWS Director by Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies
  • Feminist Futures: Moments from the CSWS 50th Anniversary by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
  • Past Lessons, Future Visions: CSWS Alumni Symposium by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
  • Q&A: Bryant Taylor by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English

Newsletter Archives

From the Center and Margins

CSWS Newsletter, Spring 1997 — Spring 2008

Spring 1997

Pg 1 CSWS Research Initiatives Launched

Pg 6-7 Third Annual RIG-A-Fair: Engaging Feminisms

Pg 8-9 Medieval Designs

Pg 10 Sex Differences in Workplace Dispute Resolution

Pg 10 The New Woman and the New Writing

Pg 11 Exploring Scholarships and Activism

CSWS 2008 Immigration Conference report

Proceedings from our 2008 conference on Gender, Families, and Latino/a Immigration in Oregon:  The first part is in English, the second part is in Spanish followed by an appendix in English.

Recent CSWS Faculty Affiliate Books/Films

Black Pro Se, by Faith Barter

Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

"Black thinkers in the antebellum United States grappled with what it meant to inhabit a place, a history, and a violent legal regime. In newspapers and pamphlets, political speeches, and fiction, Black writers persistently imagined alternative and liberatory legal futures. In reading these writers as architects of legal possibility, Faith Barter mobilizes the coincidental intimacy of prose and the legal term pro se, which refers to litigants who represent themselves in court. The book studies multiple literary genres—short stories, novels, freedom narratives, speeches, confessions, periodicals, and pamphlets—alongside legal historical treatises, trial transcripts, judicial opinions, and statutes."
Author
Faith Barter
Publication
2025
Cover of "Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities: Engaged Ethnography"

Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities: Engaged Ethnography

"This collection brings together the experiences and voices of anthropologists whose engaged work with im/ migrant communities pushes the boundaries of ethnography toward a feminist, care-based, decolonial mode of ethnographic engagement called ‘accompaniment.’ Accompaniment as anthropological research and praxis troubles the boundaries of researcher-participant, scholaractivist, and academic-community to explicitly address issues of power, inequality, and the broader social purpose of the work. More than two dozen contributors show how accompaniment is not merely a mode of knowledge production but an ethical commitment that calls researchers to action in solidarity with those whose lives we seek to understand."
Author
Kristen E. Yarris
Whitney L. Duncan
Publication
2024

CSWS Alumni Testimonials

CSWS Alumni Testimonials | Barbara Pope
CSWS Alumni Testimonials | Ryanne Pilgeram
CSWS Alumni Testimonials | Jon Jaramillo
CSWS Alumni Testimonials | Barbara Sutton