1999-00 Events

Winter 1999

Noon Talks:

  • January 19th – Alison Snyder, Assistant Professor of Architecture, “Women and Placemaking in Traditional and Modern Turkish Villages.”
  • February 2nd – Amalia Gladhart, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages, “Gender and Memory in Contemporary Latin America Women’s Fiction.”
  • March 15th – Anne DePrice, Graduate Student, Psychology, “Testing Betrayal Trauma Predictions: Memory and Emotional Meaning for Traumas among Women.”
  • March 29th – Helen Caliantos, Graduate Student, Anthropology, “Eating for Two: A Biocultural Analysis of Food Consumption during Pregnancy.”
  • April 5th – CSWS Grants Workshop: S. Marie Harvey, Research Director, CSWS.

Events:

  • January 10th – Shirley Marc, “The Psychology of Health, Immunity, and Disease”, 12PM-1:30PM, Jane Grant Room
  • January 13th-14th – Professor Marisa Belaustegoiguitia, University of Mexico, and Normal Alarcon, University of California, Berkeley, Third Woman Press. Sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Program.
  • January 12th – Barbara Altmann, Associate Professor, Romance Languages, “Christine de Pizan, First Lady of the Middle Ages”, 4PM Jane Grant Room, as part of the “Teaching and Tea” series sponsored by the Feminist Humanities Project.
  • January 20th – Professor Esther da Costa Meyer of Princeton University, “Ladies’ Paradise? Consumption, Gender, and Pathology in Nineteenth-Century Paris”, 4PM. Sponsored by the (Post-) Modernities section of the Reclaiming the Past RIG.
  • TBA – Discussion of “Maria’s Disease: A National Novel (con)Founded” from Doris Sommer’s Foundational Fictions. Sponsored by the Jewish Feminist RIG.
  • February 9th – Gina Psaki, Associate Professor, Romance Languages, “The Maiden Knight: The Roman de Silence and the Romantic Tradition”, 4PM, Jane Grant Room, as part of the “Teaching and Tea” series sponsored by the Feminist Humanities Project.
  • February 28th-29th – “Work, Welfare, and Politics” conference co-sponsored by CSWS and the Labor Education Research Center, with a grant from the Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics.
  • March 3rd – “Transformations: Women in History” is a one-day conference for high school students and teachers to celebrate Women’s History Day and learn about women past and present who have shaped history. Sponsored by Teaching the Past in the Present.
  • April 12th – “Kate Chopin: A Feminist Voice at le Fin de Siecle” by South Eugene High School teacher Florence Alvergue. 4PM, Jane Grant Room, as part of the “Teaching and Tea” series sponsored by the Feminist Humanities Project.
  • Ecological Conversations Seminars: January 13th and 20th, February 10th and 24th, March 9th, 10AM-12PM

Summer 2000

  • June 1st – Ecological Conversations Seminar – Kamala Plat: “Environmental Justice Poetics: Cultural Representations of Environmental Racism from Chicanas and Women in India”, 3PM-4:50PM, 201 Villard Hall