Fall 2003

Noon Talks:

• October 8th – “Zapotec Women in the Global Economy: Work, Identity, and Politics,” Lynn Stephen, professor, Anthropology
• October 22nd – “CSWS Grant Question-Answer Seminar,” Judith Musick, associate director, CSWS
• November 5th – “Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire,” P. Lowell Bowditch, associate professor, Classics
• November 19th – “The Gendering of the Informal Opportunities: A Look at Women’s and Men’s Labor in Post-Soviet Komsomolsk, Ukraine,” Leontina Hormel, graduate student, Sociology
• December 3rd – “Reading Gender in Central African Literature of War,” Christina Vandervorst, graduate student, Romance Languages
• January 14th – “Disease and the Dilemmas of Identity: Representation of Women in Modern Chinese Literature,” Eileen Frances Vickery, graduate student, East Asian Languages and Literatures
• February 11th – “Nepal’s Everyday Ecologists: Women Stewards of the Himalayas,” Elizabeth Larson, graduate student, International Studies
• March 3rd – “Subject to the Laws of Nature: Ecofeminism, Subjectivity, and Political Representation,” Chaone Mallory, graduate student, Environmental Studies and Women’s and Gender studies

Road Scholars:

• September 27th - 2-3:30pm, Deschutes Library-Bend: “Frida Kahlo: Mexican Artist – World Icon,” Stephanie Wood, senior research associate, CSWS
• October 9th - 12-1pm, Linn-Benton Community College: “Mothers of the Disappeared and Indigenous Rebels: Women and Social Movements in Latin America,” Lynn Stephen, professor, Anthropology
• October 14th - 1:15-2:45pm, OASIS at Meier & Frank, Valley River Center: “Poster Girls of the Middle Ages,” Barbara Altmann, associate professor, Romance Languages
• October 21st - 1:15-2:45pm, OASIS at Meier & Frank, Valley River Center: “Into Our Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the United States,” Sandra Morgen, director, CSWS, and professor, Anthropology
• October 29th - 1-2:30pm, OASIS at Meier & Frank, Valley River Center: “Bear Lizzie: Memoir of a Jewish Immigrant Woman,” Elizabeth Reis, assistant professor, Women’s and Gender Studies
• November 14th - 12-1pm, Linn-Benton Community College: “Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption and Why It Matters,” Ellen Herman, associate professor, History
• November 19th - 1:30-3pm, OASIS at Meirer & Frank, Valey River Center: “Renewing Welfare Reform: Will Getting Tougher Reduce Poverty?”, Joan Acker, CSWS, and professor emerita, Sociology
• January 22nd - 12-1pm, Linn-Benton Community College: “Into Our Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the United States,” Sandra Morgen, director, CSWS, and professor, Anthropology
• February 12th - 12-1pm, Linn-Benton Community College: “Renewing Welfare Reform: Will Getting Tougher Reduce Poverty?”, Joan Acker, CSWS, and professor emerita, Sociology

Teaching and Tea:

• October 21st – “The Adoption History Project,” Ellen Herman, associate professor, History
• November 11th – “The Gendered Garden: Images and Meaning,” Judith Musick, associate director, CSWS
• December 4th – “An American Amazon in Paris: Natalie Clifford Barney’s Literary Saons in the 1920s,” Teri Ciacci, manager, Mother Kali’s Bookstore, and independent writer
• January 27th – “Word and Tone: Hender in 19th Century German Poetry and Music,” Marylin Linton, associate professor, Germanic Languages and Literature, and Ann Tedards, associate professor, Music
• February 12th – “Tea and Zen One Taste,” Miya Shimada, program developer and manager, the Urasenke Foundation, Seattle Branch

Spring 2004

Noon Talks:

330 Hendricks, Wednesdays 12:00 to 1:00 PM

• April 21st – “Nepal’s Everyday Ecologists: Women Stewards of the Himalayas,” Elizabeth Larson, graduate student, International Studies
• May 5th – “Conavigua: Women Organizing Against Political Violence in Guatemala,” Sandra Ezqeurra, graduate student, Sociology

Road Scholars:

• May 3rd - 2:30PM, Willamette Oaks Retirement Living, "Into Out Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the United States," Sandra Morgen, director, CSWS, and professor, Anthropology
• May 7th - 7:30PM, Eugene Public Library, "Frida Kahlo: Mexican Painter – World Icon," Stephanie Wood, senior research associate, CSWS

Teaching and Tea:

330 Hendricks 4:00 tp 5:30 PM

• April 15th – “Striking Against the Empire: An Analysis of the “True” Indigenous Routs of Chicana and Chicanos,” Zelda Haro, graduate student, International Studies Program
• May 13th – “The Death of a Female Moneylender: A Medieval Murder Mystery,” Judith Baskin, professor, Judaic studies

Events:

• April 22nd, 4-6pm, "Perfect Unions: The Politics and Law of Same-Sex Marriage," Scott Barclay, Political Science, SUNY, Albany; Pricilla Uamin, Political Science, New School for Social Research; Dom Vetri, law, UO; Julie Novkov, Political Science, UO
• May 20st-21nd - Knight Law Center, Borders of Human Security Conference
  • Thursday, May 20^th
    • 7:30pm Opening Address, Noleen Heyzer, executive director, UNIFEM
  • Friday May 21^st
    • 8:30am – Welcome
    • 9-10:45am – "Terror at Home: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Violence"
      • Chair: Keith Aoki, School of Law, University of Oregon; Dahlia Hashad, ACLU Project on Racial Profiling; Patricia Cortez, Amigo de los Sobrevivientes; Cynthia Cockburn, City University London; Margaret Knox, Department of Geography, University of Oregon
    • 11am-12:45pm – "Globalization, Immigration, and Work"
      • Chair: Susan Gardwick, Department of Geography, University of Oregon; Rhonda Ramiro, Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines in the Bay Area; Ramon Ramirez, PCUN; Lise Nelson, Department of Geography, UO; Lynn Stephen, Department of Anthropology, UO
    • 2-4pm – "Economic Security and Insecurities"
      • Chair: Ellen Scott, Department of Sociology, UO; Dorthy Roberts, Northwestern School of Law; Cindi Katz, City University of New York, Graduate Center; Joan Acker, Department of Sociology, UO; Sandra Morgen, Department of Anthropology, UO
    • 4:15-6pm – "Promoting Human Security at Home"
      • Chair: Sandra Morgen, Department of Anthropology, UO; Guadalupe Quinn, CAUSA; Carol Van Houten, Community Alliance of Lane County; Hope Marston, Euguene-Springfield Solidarity Network; Deana Dartt, Department of Anthropology, UO; Harriet Merrick, Basic Rights Oregon
    • 6-7pm – Reception