2021 Annual Review

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A Letter from the Past Director by Michelle McKinley, Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law
New Special Project Advocates for Institutional Change by Jenée Wilde, Dissemination Specialist, CSWS
Spotlight on CSWS Affiliate Major Field Awards
Gyoung-Ah Lee to Lead WOC Project by Jenée Wilde, Dissemination Specialist, CSWS
An Interview with Sangita Gopal by Jenée Wilde, Dissemination Specialist, CSWS
Reflections: UO Graduate Students Share How Works by WOC Faculty Changed Them

Faculty Research

Oral History Website Preserves Stories from Eugene’s Lesbian Community by Judith Raiskin, Associate Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
#ForeverEssential: What Does it Mean to be a Low-wage Essential Worker in the Age of COVID-19? by Lina Stepick, Lola Loustaunau, Larissa Petrucci, and Ellen Scott

Graduate Student Research

M(other)work of Survival and the Pandemic as Teacher by Cristina Faiver-Serna, Jane Grant Fellow, Department of Geography
“My Stealthy Freedom”: Feminist Resistance through Social Media in Iran by Parichehr Kazemi, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science
Tempos of Zoom Ethnography: Singing with a Women’s Chorus in the Pandemic by Molly McBride, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
Breaking the Celluloid Frame: The Women at the Margins of Disney Animation by Stephanie Mastrostefano, PhD Candidate, Department of English
“Soy mujer, latina e inmigrante”: An Intersectional Study of Linguistic Capital among Latina Women Immigrants in Oregon by Lara Boyero Agudo, PhD Candidate, Department of Romance Languages
El Noa Noa: Strategies of Love and Care at the U.S.–México Border by Polet Campos-Melchor, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
Urgent Pauses: A Reflection on My Renewed Commitment to Rigorous Research by Katherine M. Huber, PhD Candidate, Department of English

Highlights from the Academic Year

News & Updates
2021-22 CSWS Research Grant Award Winners
Charise Cheney Named Black Studies Director
Thank You to CSWS Donors
Looking at Books

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Upcoming Events

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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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.

Oct 9, 2024

Moira Fradinger is author of Antigonas: Writing from Latin America.

Oct. 18 talk to explore a decolonial reading of Antigonas

Yale Professor Moira Fradinger will be presenting "A Decolonial Reading: The Case of Latin American Antígonas" on Friday, October 18, 2024. The event will be held 3–5 p.m. in 182 Lillis Hall, 955 E 13th Ave, University of Oregon.

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