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330 Hendricks Hall Jane Grant Conference Rm 1408 University St.

Join CSWS director Michelle McKinley and operations manager Dena Frazier 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.

Condon Hall Room 260 1321 Kincaid St. UO campus

Teach-In

Professors Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel (Romance Languages), Rocío Zambrana (Philosophy), and Alaí Reyes-Santos (Ethnic Studies) will lead a teach-in to engage in conversation about Puerto Rico and its place in the contemporary colonial history of the United States.

Sponsored by the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.

Source: Eleven faculty members receive UO’s highest teaching honors | Around the O

May 23, 2017—Two CSWS faculty affiliates are among those to receive UO’s highest teaching honors.

Honored for both her teaching and her research, University of Oregon Knight Law School professor and the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s very own director Michelle McKinley is a multiple award winner this spring season. In short order, Dr. McKinley has racked up a teaching award, a book award, and an honorable mention.

Location: TBD Time: TBD

Save-the-Date

Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance will be the 2018 Margaret Hallock Program speaker for the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. She’ll be visiting on May 2-3, 2018 and giving talks in both Eugene and Portland about the NYTWA as well as immigrant workers’ rights broadly.

Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society

“2017-18 CSWS Research Awards: Jane Grant Fellowship, Graduate and Faculty Research Grants, and the Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship”

Editor’s Note: Lynn Stephen is a member of the CSWS Advisory Board and a former associate director of CSWS. She is the founding director of the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, which was incubated at CSWS.

March 31, 2017 (from Around the O) — “UO anthropology professor Lynn Stephen, an internationally known Latin America scholar, is in line to lead the largest association of researchers in the field after being elected vice president of the Latin American Studies Association.

2017, Winter: CSWS Research Matters

“Beauty Diplomacy: Culture, Markets, and Politics in the Nigerian Beauty Pageant Industry,” by Oluwakemi M. “Kemi” Balogun, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology

January 24, 2017—Galvanized by fiery keynote speaker Saru Jayaraman, an audience comprised of more than 200 students, faculty, staff and community members participated in the CSWS symposium ”Food First: Justice, Security, and Sovereignty” on January 23 at various locales on the UO campus. The mix of events included a morning panel, a noon-time teach-in, a documentary film, and a late afternoon keynote address and book signing.

We could not be more proud of Director Michelle McKinley and Associate Director Sangita Gopal for their awards from the MLK Awards this past week.

photos by Mickey Stellavato

Congratulations to CSWS faculty affiliate Monique Rodrigues Balbuena, whose book Homeless Tongues: Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora (Stanford University Press, 2016, 256 pages) is a finalist for the 2016 National Jewish Book Awards in the category of Sephardic Culture, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.

Monique Balbuena is an associate professor of literature in the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon.

January 19, 2017—Two U.S. scholars from opposite coasts were selected as recipients of the fourth annual Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship, funded by the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) at the University of Oregon and the UO Libraries Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA). is a senior lecturer in the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program and a lecturer in the Stonecoast MFA Program.

January 18, 2017—CSWS director Michelle McKinley and associate director Sangita Gopal were among those honored at this year’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards Luncheon presented by the University of Oregon’s Division of Equity and Inclusion at the Ford Alumni Center on the UO campus. They were recognized for their exemplary work to further civil rights, equity and inclusion in the model of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

University of Oregon is Now a Tinker University

Cedar / Spruce Rooms Erb Memorial Union (EMU) 1222 E. 13th. Ave. UO campus

A CLLAS Faculty Grantee presentation by Alai Reyes-Santos (Ethnic Studies) and Ana Lara (Anthropology)

Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall 1408 University St. UO campus

A works-in-progress discussion on Monday, May 15 from noon to 1 p.m. will focus on the research of , Department of Public Planning, Public Policy and Management (PPPM), who was awarded a 2017-18 CSWS Faculty Research Grant for her project “Institutional Logics, Hybridity and Women’s Empowerment in an International Development Program.”

Dr. Mason is an assistant professor in the Department of Planning, Public Policy, and Management and a member of the CSWS Advisory Board.

249 Columbia Hall 1215 E. 13th St.

A Food Studies talk by graduate student

2016-17 CSWS Graduate Student Research Award winner will give a talk that explores how bananas were introduced into American food culture and daily life through cookbooks and home magazines at the turn of the twentieth century—an era marked by the rise of consumption culture and nutrition discourse.

Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Printable Poster PDF

Source: Keywords for Video Game Studies: Nature | Department of Women's and Gender Studies

Keywords for Video Game Studies

Speaker series

Date: February 22, 2017 Time: 4:00 – 5:30 pm Location: EMU 023, Lease Crutcher Lewis Room, University of Oregon

WINTER 2017: NATURE

714 PLC UO campus

Sociology Colloquium Series

a talk by Carol Stabile, associate dean, CAS, and professor, WGS and SOJC, University of Oregon

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus

The symposium will bring together a group of multi-disciplinary scholars who work on different regions of Africa to present works-in-progress for an edited volume focused on issues of leisure and expressive culture in the everyday lives of women and men in Africa and the Diaspora. The symposium will consist of two concurrent morning and afternoon panels. Speakers' topics include: festival and celebrations; sports and games; love, dating, and relationships; and media and creative arts.

Crater Lake South Erb Memorial Union (EMU) 1222 E. 13th Ave. UO campus

"Feeling Photography, Visualizing Testimony, Imagining Alterity"

Professor Juana Maria Rodriguez, University of California, Berkeley

Two appearances in two different locations.

Editor’s Note: Congratulations to long-time CSWS faculty affiliate Alisa Freedman, who has served on CSWS’s advisory board as well as the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium advisory group over the years.

December 19, 2016—Source: UO advisor receives one of her profession’s high honors | Around the O

Erb Memorial Union (EMU) Room 119 UO campus

UO professors Erin Beck and Lynn Stephen will discuss their research in a CLLAS Faculty Collaborative Research talk titled “Gender Justice in Guatemala: Advances and Challenges.” The talk will take place in Room 119 in the Erb Memorial Union on January 19, 2017, at 3:30 p.m.

We were walking through McKenzie Hall yesterday and came across this sign on the 4^th floor.

What is going on here? Is this sign real? If so, what on earth are they thinking? Does anyone have more info on this?

Lactation rooms do not belong across a fourth-floor outdoor bridge!

Source: Dr. Alexis Lothian delivers first of two 2017 Sally Miller Gearhart Lecture(s) in Lesbian Studies | Department of Women's and Gender Studies

Title: Queer Longings in Straight Futures: Notes Toward a Prehistory  for Lesbian Speculation Speaker: Dr. Alexis Lothian December 1, 2016, 4 – 5:30 pm Knight Library Browsing Room

Welcoming scholars, luminaries, and fans of speculative fiction to Eugene, the University of Oregon will host a two-day symposium dedicated to the life and work of Ursula K. Le Guin on December 2-3, 2016. Co-sponsors include the UO Libraries and Oregon Humanities Center.

EMU 119 University of Oregon