2023 Annual Review

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2023 CSWS Annual Review

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2023
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Washington, DC, Sept. 30, 2022—A protester carries a sign at a protest for Mahsa Amini, freedom in Iran, and solidarity with Iranian protesters.

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.
Opening reception for the Ghost Forest photography exhibit, which included Bellona's sound installation Wildfire—a 48-foot-long speaker array that plays back a wave of fire sounds at speeds of actual wildfires / photo by Jack Liu.

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.
Sangita Gopal, Director of CSWS

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. 

A clip of the poster for Arlene Stein's talk "The Right's Gender Wars and the Assault on Democracy"

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”

Daizi Hazarika, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology

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.