Wednesday, February 27th
4:30 - 6:00 PM
Straub Hall, Room 156
Free & open to the public
Sharon Luk, an assistant professor of ethnic studies, will present “The Life of Paper: Letters and Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity” on May 10 at noon, in Room 159, Prince Lucien Campbell Hall. Luk’s talk explores the “evolution of racism and confinement in California history,” including the early detention of Chinese migrants, the internment of Japanese Americans and the mass incarceration of African Americans.
Sponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center.
Robinson Theatre, University of Oregon
May 24, 25, 31. June 1, 7, 8 @ 7:30 p.m. June 2 @ 2:00 pm.
General Admission: $10 Adult | $8 Seniors 65+ | $8 UO Faculty/Staff | $8 Non-UO Students Free for University of Oregon students
UO geographer Yi Yu, the 2017-18 CSWS Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow, will give a presentation on her research titled “Prison of Love:” Exploitation and the promotion of “care ethics” for female care workers in China. The talk will take place on Wednesday, January 23 at 4 pm in the EMU Miller Room.
Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
“Convergence, Dissymmetry, Duplicity: Enactments of Queer of Color Critique in the Era of Administrative Violence”
Queer Studies Lecture: Chandan Reddy
Note: This event was cancelled due to inclement weather.
Talk: 3:30 - 5 pm Light refreshments: 3 - 3:30 pm Ford Lecture Hall, JSMA 1430 Johnson Lane UO campus
“Masculinity and Capitalism: A Brief History of the Rise and Fall of a Foundational Relationship”
University of California, Berkeley
CSWS Jane Grant Conference Room (330)
Hendricks Hall
Free & open to the public
Registration required: zambrana@uoregon.edu
Limited capacity: 15 people
“Anticapitalist Feminisms” Workshop
A Feminist Reading of Debt: A conversation with
Verónica Gago and Luci Cavallero
Knight Library Browsing Room
Mignon Moore, Professor of Sociology and Department Chair, Barnard College and Columbia University
CRATER LAKE ROOM SOUTH, EMU
Romance Languages: 2019 Spring Speaker Series “Misogyny”
ROOM CHANGE -- EMU 023 (Lease Crutcher Lewis Room), 12pm
Join us on Monday, May 20th for a much-anticipated talk by Dr. Jennifer C. Nash of Northwestern University! Dr. Nash's talk is the next installment in the 2018-2019 New Directions in Black Feminist Studies Speaker Series, organized by Dr. Shoniqua Roach.
Dr. Jennifer C. Nash (Northwestern)
Please be sure to download guidelines and read them before filling out your application.
The deadline for application for all 2019-20 faculty, staff, graduate, and undergraduate research grants is January 28, 2019, by 5 p.m.
Faculty/staff Research Grant Guidelines
Talk: What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape
Author: Sohaila Abdulali, writer/activist
Date and Time: Thursday, April 18 from 4-6 PM, Straub Hall 156, 1451 Onyx St., UO campus
SASS: a confidential advocate from Sexual Assault Support Services (SASS) will be present and the confidential/decompress room will be available in Straub Rm 231.
156 Straub Hall, 1451 Onyx St., UO campus
Free & open to the public
Justice and Reparation in Guatemala: Challenges and Possibilities
CLLAS Inaugural Lecture in Latinx and Latin American Studies
Must pre-register for these workshops. For full details, see also: https://csws.uoregon.edu/ally/
Trainer, Dena Zaldúa
CSWS Operations Manager
Feb. 11 10 am - 12:30 pm Allyship 101
Feb. 12 9:30 am - 12 pm Allyship 101
Feb. 12 12:30 pm - 3 pm Allyship 201
Editor’s note: CSWS is one of several UO units that awarded research funds to Prof. Ernesto Javier Martínez in support of this creative work.
A new book and film have a University of Oregon professor singing a happy tune.
a new book from Lynn Fujiwara, professor of ethnic studies and a CSWS faculty affiliate
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics Edited by Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan (University of Washington Press, Dec. 2018)
CSWS welcomes scholar to the staff as pro tem research assistant.
Chaudhry is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University. His work focuses on the institutionalization of “transgender” in nonprofit and funding agencies through ethnographic research in Philadelphia, PA.
Nov. 9 – Three University of Oregon faculty members in the College of Education’s education studies earned the 2018 Francis P. Hunkins Article of the Year Award from the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum. Jerry Rosiek, Alison Schmitke and Julie Heffeman wrote “Queering Teacher Education Curriculum: A Case Study of Lessons Learned in the Transformation of a Teacher Education Program.”
This opinion piece is written by , a scholar-in-residence at the Leeway Foundation, an anthropology PhD candidate at Northwestern University, and a predoctoral fellow in the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon.
When it comes to gender identity, inclusion is more than using the right pronoun | Opinion
Annual Awards Ceremony / American Studies Association
October 23, 2018—“The American Studies Association has awarded the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize to Sharon Luk, The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity (University of California Press).
What It Means To Be a Black Latina in Higher Education by , Associate Professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies posted in Hip Latina, October 20, 2018
“I have been asserting my blackness since I can remember.
Marie A. Vitulli, professor emerita in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon, was recently named a 2019 AWM Fellow by the Association for Women in Mathematics. Prof. Vitulli is a long-time CSWS faculty affiliate.
330 Hendricks Hall Jane Grant Conference Rm 1408 University St.
Join CSWS director Michelle McKinley and operations manager Dena Zaldua as they discuss the grant application process for CSWS faculty and graduate student research grants, including the Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall
We are pleased to invite you to the first meeting of the year of the Inclusive Pedagogies Research Interest Group supported by the Center for the Study of Women in Society.
Our first meeting will be Friday, Oct. 12, from 11-1 in the Jane Grant Conference Room at CSWS (Hendricks Hall Rm. 330).
Congratulations to Priscilla Yamin, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, now the newly named department head of the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Erb Memorial Union Crater Lake North
Williams Fund Showcase will share innovations in teaching
from Around the O / October, 26, 2018—Every year, the Williams Fund recognizes faculty members from across campus for their insightful approaches to undergraduate teaching.
Editor’s Note: has served on the CSWS Advisory Board the past two years.
August 20, 2018—, head of the UO’s Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, has been selected for a half-time position as associate vice provost for academic affairs.
Braun, also an associate professor in the Department of International Studies, will continue her research and teaching half time, according to an announcement from the Office of the Provost.
August 2018—, associate professor of English and a CSWS faculty affiliate, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars award in the amount of $60,000 for her project “The Sisterhood and Black Women’s Literary Organizing.”
Lewis Lounge Knight Law Center 1515 Agate St.
“The Invisible #MeToos: The fight to end sexual violence against America’s most vulnerable workers”
Bernice Yeung, Investigative Reporter Reveal (Center for Investigative Reporting)
Gerlinger Alumni Lounge 1468 University Street UO campus Free & open to the public
Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina
Barbara Sutton, Associate Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York
July 16, 2018—Lynn Stephen and Erin Beck, two members of the CSWS Américas Research Interest Group whose research on gender violence in Guatemala and the U.S. is on a yearly basis of support from CSWS, are among those whose research will receive 2018 Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives awards from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation.
Hope Theatre Free admission
UO Latinx Strategies Group, UO Black Strategies Group, and UO Theatre Arts present:
Black Latina the Play on Friday, Oct 19th at 7:30pm at the Hope Theatre
BLACK LATINA IS one STORY OF BEING A BLACK LATINA IN THE U.S.
Performance followed by a conversation with writer and director Ms. Crystal Roman
Event information: blogs.uoregon.edu/blacklatina
