CSWS Honored by UO MLK Awards

Posted by CSWS Staff on Jan 20, 2017

We could not be more proud of Director Michelle McKinley and Associate Director Sangita Gopal for their awards from the MLK Awards this past week.

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Jan 21

Wine Chat: “Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities” at Capitello Wines

Kristin Yarris, an associate professor of Global Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, will discuss her edited volume 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.”

Jan 21 - 5:30pm

Mar 4

O’Fallon Lecture: Candace Bond-Theriault at Knight Library Browsing Room

Candace Bond-Theriault, JD., LL.M. (she/her/hers) is a Black queer feminist lawyer, professor, writer, mother, and social justice advocate working at the intersections of law, policy, reproductive health rights, racial justice, LGBTQIA+ liberation, economic justice, and democracy reform. She is Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Howard University, and Associate Director for Movement Building at Dēmos: a think tank for the Racial Justice Movement. Bond-Theriault sits on the SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW!

Mar 04 - 4:00pm

May 14

Deepa Iyer: "Reimagining Ecosystems for Social Change" at Knight Library Browsing Room

Deepa Iyer is this year's Lorwin Lecturer. Over the course of two decades supporting social movements, Deepa Iyer has played many roles: weaver, frontline responder, storyteller, and guide. Currently, she is the Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at Building Movement Project where she builds projects, resources, and narratives around transformative solidarity practices. Iyer’s primary areas of expertise include post September 11th policies, civil rights, and Asian American/South Asian histories of community building.

May 14 - 4:00pm

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Jan 6, 2025

CSWS research grant applications due Jan. 27

CSWS invites applications for all 2025-26 faculty, staff, and graduate student research grants to support research and/or creative work that addresses women and gender from a range of disciplines across UO colleges and schools. Applications are due 5 p.m.

Nov 8, 2024

CSWS grants info session set for Nov. 18

If your research, scholarship, or creative work engages with the complexities of women’s lives or the complicated nature of intersectional gender identities and inequalities, then you should apply for research funding from the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS).

As the 2025-26 grant funding cycle rapidly approaches, CSWS will be hosting an information session and a grant writing workshop to support graduate students, faculty, and staff through the funding application process.

Oct 9, 2024

In Malayalam soft-porn cinema of the 1990s, female leads were cast as madakarani (sex-siren), a label that symbolized both their narrative role and professional distinction as second-tier contract laborers.

Oct. 25 talk looks at soft-porn in South Asian cinema

Darshana Sreedhar Mini, assistant professor of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be giving a talk Friday, Oct. 25, on "Madakarani as Screen Pleasure: Scandal and Soft-porn Imaginary." The free lecture will be held 3–5 p.m. in 145 Straub Hall, 1451 Onyx St, at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

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Wine Chat: “Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities” at Capitello Wines

O’Fallon Lecture: Candace Bond-Theriault at Knight Library Browsing Room

Deepa Iyer: "Reimagining Ecosystems for Social Change" at Knight Library Browsing Room

CSWS research grant applications due Jan. 27

CSWS grants info session set for Nov. 18

Oct. 25 talk looks at soft-porn in South Asian cinema

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Past Events Menu

50th Anniversary Menu

CSWS Honored by UO MLK Awards

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Wine Chat: “Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities” at Capitello Wines

O’Fallon Lecture: Candace Bond-Theriault at Knight Library Browsing Room

Deepa Iyer: "Reimagining Ecosystems for Social Change" at Knight Library Browsing Room

CSWS research grant applications due Jan. 27

CSWS grants info session set for Nov. 18

Oct. 25 talk looks at soft-porn in South Asian cinema