Editor’s Note: Through CSWS Faculty Research Grants, CSWS has supported the research of faculty affiliate Eileen Otis.
From Oregon Quarterly—The first time UO sociologist Eileen Otis walked into a Walmart, she was far from home—Kunming, China, to be exact. She was immediately struck by how greatly the Chinese version of the massive retailer differed from its American counterpart.
The University of Oregon is putting on the 2018 Faculty Promotion Celebration on Tuesday, June 5, to honor all faculty who were promoted and/or received tenure during academic year 2018. Congratulations to all those being honored.
We would like to especially acknowledge former CSWS associate director Gabriela Martinez, who was promoted to full professor in the School of Journalism and Communication, and former CSWS advisory board member , who was promoted to full professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.
May 31, 2018—Two long-time CSWS faculty affiliates—Frances J. White and Monique R, Balbuena—are among six UO faculty & staff named as 2018 award recipients by the the University Senate.
The Wayne T. Westling Award went to Frances J. White, professor and department head, anthropology; senator; member of the Senate Executive Committee; co-chair of the Academic Council; and chair, UO Committee on Courses.
Knight Law Center NEW ROOM LOCATION: Room 175 1515 Agate St.
Editor’s Note: Congratulations to CSWS faculty affiliate and two other faculty honored for excellence in teaching.
From Around the O: Three faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences have been recognized for excellence in teaching as recipients of this year’s Tykeson Teaching Awards.
April 9, 2018—The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon recently awarded more than $67,000 in graduate student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender during the 2018-19 academic year. The research being funded includes projects focused in Senegal, Ghana, the Caribbean, and across the country.
From Around the O: Judith Eisen honored
April 20, 2018—UO biologist Judith Eisen is best known to the world as a pioneer in using zebrafish as a model to study the nervous system.
Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance, by Stephanie “Lani” Teves (University of North Carolina Press, April 2018, 240 pages).
Just out from the University of North Carolina Press, Stephanie Teves’s new book, Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance. Lani Teves is an assistant professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon. A CSWS faculty affiliate, she received a 2016-17 CSWS Faculty Research Grant in support of her research for this book.
Congratulations to the many CSWS faculty affiliates named as recipients of 2018-19 OVPRI Faculty Research Awards. These include Mary Wood (English), Kristin Yarris (International Studies), Lynn Stephen (Anthropology), Laura Pulido (Ethnic Studies), Kate Mondloch (History of Art & Architecture), Ernesto Martinez (Ethnic Studies), Ana-Maurine Lara (Anthropology), Alai-Reyes Santos (Ethnic Studies), Mai-Lin Cheng (Clark Honors College), Marjorie Celona (Creative Writing), Mayra Bottaro (Romance Languages), and Dare Baldwin (Psychology).
May 2 : Knight Library, Browsing Room May 16 & May 23: Willamette 100 Free & open to the public
Spring speakers series: “Thinking Authenticity”
May 16, 2018 Willamette 100 “Reading Aime Cesaire in the Era of Black Lives Matter,” with Frieda Ekotto, University of Michigan
May 23, 2018 Willamette 100 “The Face on Film: Made and Unmade," with Noa Steimatsky, ACLS / Berkeley U
Three University of Oregon faculty members have been awarded 2018-19 Williams Fellowships
April 3, 2018—CSWS advisory board member Andrea P. Herrera was interviewed as a sociologist and parent for one of New York Magazine's current cover stories: “It's a Theyby! Raising the Gender Creative Child.” Her comments appear toward the middle of the article and beyond.
Herrera is a doctoral candidate in the UO Department of Sociology and and an instructor in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
From Around the O
March 22, 2018—UO anthropology professor Lynn Stephen, a renowned scholar of Latin American studies, has been awarded a prestigious Philip H. Knight Chair in the College of Arts and Sciences.
March 6, 2018—Kohnjehr Woman, a book of poetry by , has been nominated as a finalist for the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Awards.
Lara, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon and a CSWS faculty affiliate, is an award-winning poet and fiction writer whose novels include Erzulie’s Skirt (RedBone Press 2006) and When the Sun Once Again Sang to the People (KRK Ediciones 2011).
Marie A. Vitulli, professor emerita of mathematics and a long-time CSWS faculty affiliate, recently published a pair of articles relevant to Women's History Month in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 65, No. 3. One is a 25-year-long study of gender (and citizenship) differences in first jobs of PhDs from US institutions. The other is about Dr. Vitulli’s difficulties in writing women in math into Wikipedia. Here is the online link to the issue: http://www.ams.org/notices
A new book by CSWS faculty affiliate Mai-Lin Cheng “explores the importance to Romantic literature of a concept of human interest." British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest was published in December 2017 by Bucknell University Press and co-published by Rowman & Littlefield. It is part of Bucknell’s Series in Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850.
Mai-Lin Cheng is an assistant professor of literature in the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon.
January 23, 2018—Like so many others, we are saddened to learn of the passing on Monday of the great writer Ursula K. Le Guin. The news came through a breaking news announcement in the New York Times.
Free & open to the public
Panel Discussion: April 25, 3:00 – 4:30 PM Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) Ford Lecture Hall, 1430 Johnson Lane, 97403 UO campus Light reception: 2:30 – 3 p.m. JSMA Ford Lecture Hall
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Free event Limited seating
“All too many people and communities are named defective and deficient in a thousand different ways. Those words are weapons used to create ‘bad’ and disposable body-minds. Through poetry, storytelling, and history, Eli Clare unpacks the power of ‘defective,’ exploring how it is rooted in ableism and wielded by white supremacy to strengthen racism.”
Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus
Free & open to the public
McKenzie Hall Room 375 1101 Kincaid St. UO Campus
Laila Lalami will be our keynote speaker for the 7th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium on April 25. Her keynote talk is titled “The Border and Its Meaning: Forgotten Stories.” Details: http://csws.uoregon.edu/2018nwws/
In an addition to being an award-winning novelist and a Pulitzer finalist, Lalami writes the “Between the Lines” column for The Nation.
Erb Memorial Union Crater Lake North
CSWS Faculty Affiliates at the University of Oregon
Alphabetical Listing of Faculty with Book & Documentary Film Publications 2014-2018
sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society in conjunction with the Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs
Portland 7 pm Wednesday, May 2 SEIU 503 Hall, 401 SE Foster Rd.
Eugene 7 p.m. Thursday, May 3 Ford Alumni Center 1720 E. 13th Ave.
Featuring , executive director and found member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance
300 Villard Hall 1109 Old Campus Lane University of Oregon
Sangita Gopal, associate professor of cinema studies, will present a talk entitled “Bourgeois Extreme: Genre and Global Flows” as part of the Department of Comparative Literature’s “What Matters To Me” series on Friday, May 11, at 4:00 p.m.
Professor Gopal teaches in the Department of Cinema Studies, the Department of English, and the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.
Jane Grant Conference Room Hendricks Hall 330 1408 University St. By invitation only RSVP: cswsevents@uoregon.edu
“The Gendered Organization of Migrant Domestic Work”
Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall 1408 University St. UO campus
Events take place at: Knight Library, Browsing Room and Gerlinger Lounge Time: 9 am to 7:30 pm Free & open to the public
For the full schedule, go to: “Justice Across Borders: Gender, Race and Migration in the Americas”
Knight Law Center Lewis Lounge, 1515 Agate St. UO campus Printable poster PDF
Speaker: Sarah A. Seo, Associate Professor, University of Iowa College of Law
Lewis Lounge Knight Law Center 1515 Agate St. UO campus Printable poster PDF
Inaugural Lecture: Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium
Khiara Bridges teaches at Boston University with a joint appointment in the School of Law and the Anthropology Department.
Discussants
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The most recent UO Today episode features Kristin Yarris, assistant professor of international studies and the director of the new UO global health minor.
Miller Room
Erb Memorial Union
1222 E. 13th Ave.
“Walmart in China: How are Chinese workers confronting the world’s largest company?”
A Lecture Series Sponsored by the UO Labor Education & Research Center Spring 2018
145 Straub Hall 1451 Onyx St. UO campus
Veterans Speak: Identity, Community, Resistance Disruption
The National Endowment for the Arts recently announced that Amalia Gladhart, a professor of Spanish and Head of the UO Department of Romance Languages, will receive a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, one of 22 literature translation fellowships for fiscal year 2018. Gladhart will translate Jaguars' Tomb, a work of Angélica Gorodischer.
