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Features:
- Women’s Visual Protest Movements in Iran: A Conversation with Parichehr Kazemi by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
- Haunting Ecologies by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
- An Invitation from the Director of CSWS, by Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies
- Reflections on Gender, Sexuality, and Power
- New Faculty Reception
Faculty Research:
- Publishing Books of Women’s Stories: Advice from Women in Japanese Studies, by Alisa Freedman, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures
- Advice for Compiling Women's Stories: Ten Lessons I Have Learned, by Alisa Freedman, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures
- A Multi-Stakeholder Analysis of Women’s Houselessness in Eugene, Oregon, by Lesley Jo Weaver, Professor, Department of Global Studies, and Mackenzie VanLaar, PhD, Department of Anthropology
- Airing It Out: Women’s Role in Korean Radio Broadcasting, by Jina Kim, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures
- The Songs of Clara Schumann, by Stephen Rodgers, Professor, School of Music & Dance
Graduate Student Research:
- The Rise of Witch-Hunting & Witch-Killing in Assam, India, by Daizi Hazarika, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
- Futuremaking in a Disaster Zone: Indigenous Women and the Everyday Politics of Climate Change in Peru, by Holly Moulton, PhD Candidate, Department of Environmental Studies
- Gender Roles in the Testimonial Narratives of Andean Women, by Gloria Macedo-Janto, PhD Student, Department of Romance Languages
- Too Sensitive? Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, by Isabella Clark, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology
- Sylvia Wynter and the New Seville Project, by Brooke Burns, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy
- Revisiting Korean TV Drama Love and Truth, by Jeongon Choi, PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures
Publication Year
2023
Category
Articles
Women’s Visual Protest Movements in Iran: A Conversation with Parichehr Kazemi
Parichehr Kazemi is a political science PhD candidate at the University of Oregon. She received a 2019 Graduate Student Research Award from CSWS and was the Center’s 2022 Jane Grant Dissertation fellow. Kazemi researches women’s resistance efforts, social media, and social movements across the Middle East, focusing on the ways that women use social media images as a means of protest in Iran. As a CSWS Advisory Board member last year, she drafted the Center’s statement declaring solidarity with demonstrators in Iran who protested the tragic death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iranian morality police.
Haunting Ecologies
During spring term, CSWS presented Haunting Ecologies: The Past, Present, and Future of Feminist and Indigenous Approaches to Forest Fire. This two-week event series included the 2023 Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture as well as a panel discussion on “Native Ecologies.” Both events were presented in conjunction with Ghost Forest—a photography exhibit by Eugene artist Sarah Grew, featuring Jon Bellona’s sound installation Wildfire.
An Invitation from the Director of CSWS
by Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies
CSWS turns 50 in AY 2023-24! We invite you to a thrilling year of events themed “Feminist Futures” that look to the future while commemorating the past. We will celebrate the cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship on gender and intersectionality that the Center has sponsored and disseminated for five decades, and showcase feminist collaborations across the arts, humanities, sciences, and technology that imagine feminist futures to negotiate the challenges of the next fifty.
Reflections on Gender, Sexuality, and Power
CSWS sponsored three talks during winter and spring 2023. We invited five of our graduate student affiliates below to share some thoughts on the talks’ themes.
February 16: “Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America”
March 13: “The Right’s Gender Wars and the Assault on Democracy”
April 21: “Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics”
Publishing Books of Women’s Stories: Advice from Women in Japanese Studies
by Alisa Freedman, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures
A Multi-Stakeholder Analysis of Women’s Houselessness in Eugene, Oregon
by Lesley Jo Weaver, Associate Professor, Department of Global Studies, and Mackenzie VanLaar, PhD, Department of Anthropology
Elsie, a woman in her mid-twenties who is struggling with opioid dependency on the streets of Eugene, Oregon, spiraled out earlier this year when police swept her camp, cutting her off from the mentor and friend she refers to as her “street dad.” “Like, my dad, my street dad—he’s somebody that really helped me,” she explains from the doorway of her tent. She begins crying. “Without him, now I’m crashing and burning even more because I can’t just go see him, you know what I mean? Some people are really, really big influences on what people do in their life—like, they make a huge difference.”
Airing It Out: Women’s Role in Korean Radio Broadcasting
By Jina Kim, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Literatures
In recent years, Korean TV dramas have become a significant presence on the international television circuit, so much so that some of the most watched shows on over-the-top (OTT) platforms are Korean TV dramas. The Netflix-produced Korean drama Squid Game (2021) and The Glory (2023) are just two of many that have received critical and widespread acclaim, bringing much attention to Korean dramatic storytelling texts. However, what often gets overlooked in these televisual texts are the scenarists who pen these successful stories, many of whom are women writers.
The Songs of Clara Schumann
by Stephen Rodgers, Professor and Edmund A. Cykler Chair in Music, School of Music and Dance
In April 2023, Cambridge University Press published my book, The Songs of Clara Schumann, the first book in Cambridge’s Music in Context series to be devoted to the music of a woman composer. Clara Schumann was one of the most talented musicians of the 19th century—a formidable pianist who maintained an active career as a concert performer for 63 years, and a composer who wrote piano music, songs, choral works, chamber music, and instrumental music. But to this day she lies in the shadow of her more famous husband, the composer Robert Schumann. My book places Clara Schumann’s music front and center, focusing on her small but extraordinary output of songs.
The Rise of Witch-Hunting & Witch-Killing in Assam, India
by Daizi Hazarika, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
During the winter of 2023, with the help of a CSWS graduate student research award, I had an opportunity to visit Assam, India, for two months to conduct dissertation research on witch-hunting and witch-killing. During my field trip to Assam, I conducted research in Guwahati (the capital city of Assam) and a village called Dabli, among the Rabha community (a tribal community of Assam) in the Goalpara subdivision of this region. In Guwahati, I interacted with several government officials regarding their perceptions of the current-day witch-hunting in Assam and the steps taken by the Assamese government to combat this practice.
Futuremaking in a Disaster Zone: Indigenous Women and the Everyday Politics of Climate Change in Peru
by Holly Moulton, PhD Candidate, Department of Environmental Studies
In the summer of 2019, I took a bus to my friend Rosa’s house, which is located in the middle of a Quechua community within a glacial lake outburst flood hazard zone in the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca. In the family’s garden there is a spectacular view of Andean peaks in all directions. There is a sense of being in an oasis, shielded from the noise of the street right outside the gates and the bustle of the town of Huaraz below.
Gender Roles in the Testimonial Narratives of Andean Women
by Gloria Macedo-Janto, PhD Student, Department of Romance Languages
To better understand a 20-year period of political violence in Peru, in this project I analyze the testimonies of Andean women, especially from the Ayacucho area, to make visible their contribution to the reconstruction of an important part of Peruvian history. In accordance with their worldview and their roles as women, in their tragic and painful testimonies they tell how they suffered ethnic and gender discrimination, and it is observed that they are capable of recalling many details and telling their experiences from different perspectives and with their own narrative.
Too Sensitive? Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
By Isabella Clark, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology
My dissertation examines multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), a condition where people experience physical symptoms in response to “normal” doses of everyday chemicals. These symptoms vary and include brain fog, rashes, headaches, respiratory problems, nausea, and fatigue, amongst other things. MCS is a contested illness; its material reality is often dismissed in favor of a psychological explanation by both doctors and lay people.
Sylvia Wynter and the New Seville Project
By Brooke Burns, PhD Candidate, Department of Philosophy
After witnessing the cruelty inflicted upon the Indigenous Arawak peoples of the Caribbean islands in 1514, Spanish priest Bartolemé de Las Casas underwent a “conversion experience” that would take him on a journey across the Atlantic Ocean to first meet with King Ferdinand II and later with the co-regents of Charles V. There, he argued for the abolition of the encomienda system, and as a replacement for labor proposed the importation of 4,000 African people into the Caribbean islands.
Revisiting Korean TV Drama "Love and Truth"
by Jeongon Choi, PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures
The market success of South Korean television dramas in Asian countries during the 2000s was termed Hallyu 1.0, and their narrative trend centered on Cinderella stories. So-called candy girl characters who charm aristocratic men with their cheerful and hard-working attitude still define K-drama now, and even though these Cinderella romances usually end up in the acceptance of patriarchal ideology, the candy girl story is not merely a fantasy about longing for upward marriage.