By The Numbers
- 2023-24 Events: 1,678 total attendance
- DuckFunder Campaign: $50,035 raised with 69 donors
- $97,000 Calderwood Foundation Grant
Highlights
- National and international speakers including Anita Hill, 2024 Lorwin Lecture on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; Tina Brown, acclaimed former editor of the New Yorker; and Diana Greene Foster, author of The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion
- Campus-wide collaborations with the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Wayne Morse Center, School of Music and Dance, School of Journalism and Communication, UO Common Reading, Cinema Studies, Comics Studies, and UO Environment Initiative
- Concerts, art exhibits, film screenings, symposia, and more
Major Events
- “Haunting Ecologies: The Past, Present, and Future of Feminist and Indigenous Approaches to Forest Fire” panel, lecture, and art installation
- “Feminist Futures: An Evening of Song, Music, & Dance” performance
- “Artists, Constellations, and Connections: Feminist Futures” exhibit
- “Desire in the Aftermath of Environmental Violence” Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture
- “CSWS Alumni Symposium: Celebrating Feminist Futures”
Fundraising Impact: New Undergraduate Initiatives
Initiative 1: CSWS Calderwood Undergraduate Seminars in Public Writing
The CSWS Calderwood seminars are designed to teach undergraduate students how to deeply listen to conflicting points of view so they can translate complex, specialized knowledge on women and intersectional gender issues for broad audiences across ideological divides. Launched in Spring 2025, CSWS will offer five seminars over three years with support from CSWS donors and the Calderwood Foundation.
Initiative 2: CSWS Undergraduate STEAM Summer Research Fellowships
Our undergraduate fellowship will create opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaborations among science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) fields on campus and to enhance pathways for underrepresented students in STEAM to succeed. CSWS provides grant funding for STEAM-field undergraduates and faculty mentors to partner on cross-disciplinary summer projects that support our mission. Launched in 2025, STEAM fellowships are possible through support from CSWS donors and the UO Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation.
Encountering Women’s History in a CSWS Calderwood Seminar
by Jenée Wilde, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of English
In the Jane Grant Room at CSWS, a dozen students gather around the conference table as their instructor gets the workshop started. This week, classmates in group A are the editors, providing detailed critical and generative feedback to the op-ed writers in group B. Next week, their roles will be reversed. “I really liked that one week we were an editor and the next week we were writing,” said Tanya Gunarathne, a general social science education major and nontraditional student at UO. “Being able to comment on our classmates’ work was intimidating at first, but after a while I was excited to see what everybody wrote, and they were excited to see what I wrote. It was an awesome thing to see.”
Personal Stories Inspire Summer Undergraduate Research Projects
by Jenée Wilde, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of English
The Center for the Study of Women in Society has launched a new student-centered research initiative—the CSWS Undergraduate STEAM Summer Fellowship. Over the summer, undergraduate fellows collaborated with University of Oregon faculty mentors to develop interdisciplinary research and creative projects that engage with STEAM fields—science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. Our STEAM fellows approach their inquiry with gender and intersectionality as an analytical framework.