2014-15 Events

Fall 2014

Noon Talks:

Jane Grant Conference Room, Hendricks Hall 330

  • November 19th - Grants Information Session with Q&A with CSWS director Michael Hames-García and associate director Gabriela Martínez
  • December 3rd - Michael Hames-García, director, CSWS, and professor, Department of Ethnic Studies

African Studies Lecture Series:

12-1:15PM, Knight Library Browsing Room

  • October 15th - Beverly Stoeltje, Folklore, Indiana University, “Queen Mothers in Contemporary Asante in Ghana: Authority or Decorative Symbol?”
  • November 4th - Jinny Prais, History and African Studies, Columbia University, “‘Who is Marjorie Mensah?’ The Educated Woman and the Formation of a Modern West African Nation
  • November 17th - Yvonne Braun, INTL/WGS, UO, “Networking for Women’s Rights: Transnational Organizing in Southern Africa

Events:

  • October 16th - 4:00PM, Beall Concert Hall, Frohnmayer Music Building, Mare Advertencia Lirika: Zapotec Hip Hop Artist to Perform
  • October 22nd - 12:00PM, Jane Grant Conference Room, 330 Hendricks Hall, CSWS Graduate Student Coffee
  • October 23rd - 12-1:30 pm, Knight Library, Browsing Room, “Sacrificing Families: U.S. Policies and the Displacement of Central Americans,” with Leisy J. Abrego, Assistant Professor, UCLA, Department of Chicana/o Studies, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Américas Research Interest Group.
  • October 23rd-24th  Globalization, Gender, and Development Conference
  • October 24th - Clinical Services Building, Panel: “Nature in Doubt: Intersex in a Chemical Era,” with Tyrone Hayes, Elizabeth Reis, and Kari Norgaard
  • October 24th-25th - Herbicides and Community Health Conference
  • October 30th - UO Disability Studies Forum  

Winter 2015

Noon Talks:

Jane Grant Conference Room, 330 Hendricks Hall

  • January 21st - Megan Burke, “Heterosexuality, Sexual Violence and the Temporality of Femininity.” 

Event poster from Megan Burke's event

Events:

  • February 6th - 4-6:00PM, Browsing Room, Knight Library, Ileana Rodríguez-Silva Public Talk. Sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Américas Research Interest Group.
  • February 18th - 6:30PM, Knight Library, Browsing Room, Film Showing: “The Supreme Price.” Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Gender in Africa and the African Diaspora RIG.
  • February 19th - 12-1:00PM, “Habits of Leaking: Of Sluts and Network Cards,” a seminar with Wayne Morse Chair Wendy Hui Kyong Chun.
  • February 20th - 3:00PM, Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Reading and book signing with acclaimed Canadian writer Louise Dupré. Cosponsored by CSWS.
  • February 23rd - 12:00PM, Prince Lucien Campbell Hall Room 714, Michael Messner, “Male Allies, and the Politics of Feminist Accountability.” Cosponsored by CSWS.
  • February 24th - 3:00PM, Knight Library Browsing Room, Margaret Jacobs, “Remembering the Forgotten Child: the Indigenous Welfare Crisis of the 1960s-1970s.” Cosponsored by CSWS.
  • March 3rd -  4:00PM, Knight Library Browsing Room, Anjali Arondekar, “Telling Tales: Sexuality’s Fictions.” Cosponsored by CSWS.
  • March 4th - 2:00PM, 115 Lawrence Hall, Nancy Tuana, “Coming to Understand Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance.” Cosponsored by CSWS.
  • March 11th - 5:00PM, Erb Memorial Union, Gumwood Room, Jafari Sinclaire Allen, “Black/Queer Here & There: Ethnography of An Idea.” Cosponsored by CSWS.

Spring 2015

Noon Talks:

Jane Grant Conference Room, 330 Hendricks Hall

  • April 8th - Jenée Wilde, “Bridging Humanities and Social Science Methods in PhD Research.” 
    • Jenée Wilde is the 2014-15 CSWS Jane Grant Fellowship Award recipient.
  • April 22nd - “Internal or Transnational? Zapotec Women’s Migration Dilemmas,” with Iván Sandoval Cervantes. 

Events:

  • April 9th - 4-6:00PM, Browsing Room, Knight Library, Johanna Crane Public Talk.  Sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Narrative, Health, and Social Justice Research Interest Group.
  • April 28th - 7:30-9:30PM, Global Scholars Hall, "The Hunting Ground": a screening.
  • May 7th-9th - 2015 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “Our Daily Bread: Women’s Stories of Food and Resilience
  • May 14th - 11:30AM-2:30PM, Graduate Student Lounge, Susan Campbell Hall, Jessaca Leinaweaver Public Talk. Sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Américas Research Interest Group.Event poster from the 2015 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium