2006-07 Events

Winter 2006-07

Lecture: One-and-a-half Generation Mexican Youth in Oregon: Pursuing the Mobility Dream – February 8th, 2007, 2pm, Knight Library Browsing Room – Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, professor of Chicano and Latino studies at OSU

Wednesdays at Noon, 330 Hendricks Hall

  • January 17th – “Divine Heresy: Feminist Revisions of Sacred Texts”, Mandolin Brassaw, graduate student, English
  • January 31st – “Urban Catastrophes and Racial Anxieties: Los Angeles and the Politics of Disaster”, Hee-Jung Serentiy Joo, graduate student, comparative literature
  • February 21st – “Queering the Quarrel: Contexts and Conflicts in the Sapphic Poetry of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz”, Amanda Powell, senior instructor, Department of Romance Languages
  • February 28th – “Community Engagement and Independent Publishing: Zines and Gender Activism”, Julie Voelker-Morris, instructor, Arts and Administration Program, and coeditor, CultureWork (Published by the Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy) and Rober Voelker-Morris, adjunct instructor, Arts and Administration Program, and project coordinator, Don Hunter Archive, UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History
  • March 14th – “Women’s Hip-Hop in Brazil”, Lillian Lea Barwin Lopez, graduate student, comparative literature

Spring 2006-07

Empires in the 21st Century: Emergence, Contestation, and Gender Conference – May 18th, 2007, 8:30am to 6:30pm, Fir Room, EMU – Roksana Bahramitash, Concordia University; Angana Chatterji, California Institute of Integral Studies; Purnima Mankekar, UCLA; Valentine Moghadam, Purdue University; Aihwa Ong, University of California-Berkeley 

Oaxaca Week – April 17th-19th, 2007 – Concepcion Nunez Rey, Margarita Dalton, PhD, and Julia Barco

Pedagogy and Imperialism: The Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching about Empire – Friday, May 25th, Knight Library Browsing Room – Liz Philipose, PhD, assistant professor of women’s studies at California State University-Long Beach. Sponsored by the Social Science Feminist Network RIG.

Intimate Partner Violence, Gender, and Methamphetamine Conference – April 27th, 2007, Eugene Hilton, 8:30am-4pm

Fourth Annual Currents in Gender Studies Symposium – April 13th, 11am-1:30pm, Lecture Hall at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Intersex Symposium – April 12th, 2-5pm, 182 Lillis Hall

Wednesdays at Noon – 330 Hendricks Hal

  • April 11th, “Women’s Hip-Hop in Brazil”, Lillian Lea Barwin Lopez, graduate student, comparative literature
  • April 25th, “Reconstructing Monastic Women’s Musical and Liturgical Life in the Northern Middle Ages”, Alison Altstatt, graduate teaching fellow, dance
  • May 9th, “Collaboration or Exploitation? Margarete Steffin and Bertolt Brecht”, Dorothee Ostmeier, associate professor, German and Scandinavian Studies
  • May 23rd – “Bringing Gender-Sensitive, Sustainable Redevelopment to Earthquake-Ridden Pakistan”, Amarah Niazi, graduate student, international studies
  • May 30th – “Sex Style, and War: Aesthetics and Politics in Post 9/11 America”, Bonnie Mann, assistant professor, philosophy