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).

Livestock: Food, Fiber, and Friends

a new book from , Professor, UO Department of Philosophy

's new book, Livestock: Food, Fiber, and Friends, has been published by the University of Georgia Press.

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

7th Annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “The Border and Its Meaning: Forgotten Stories”

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.

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CSWS Faculty Affiliates at the University of Oregon

Celebrating Research 2018

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

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus

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

Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium

Speaker: Sarah A. Seo, Associate Professor, University of Iowa College of Law

Grant guidelines and applications can be accessed online.

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.

Due Date: November 30, 2017 by 5 p.m.

Applications for CSWS Travel Grants are due Nov. 30. These small grants (up to $300) are available only for UO graduate students, for travel expenses to be incurred during AY 2017 - 2018. These grants provide partial support for travel to present papers that relate to women and gender at a conference, or for a professional activity related to women and gender. Funding is contingent on the paper/panel acceptance at the conference or workshop. CSWS will prioritize requests from students with partial department support.

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The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity

A Book Symposium with Discussants:

Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall UO campus Printable PDF

CSWS Works-in-Progress Talk: NOTE THE TIME CHANGE TO 10 A.M.

“Unpacking Pariah(s): The Black Queer Feminist Liberation Plot and the Politics of Black (Sexual) Articulation”

Video link for “Why Aren’t There More Black People in Oregon?: A Hidden History” with Walidah Imarisha

Here is the link to the video on the UO Channel: https://media.uoregon.edu/channel/archives/12247

This lecture took place on October 12, 2017 at Lillis Hall on the University of Oregon campus to packed audience. 

From the Oregon Daily Emerald, our award-winning student newspaper, a report on the CSWS-sponsored talk by Walidah Imarisha: “Why Aren’t There More Black People in Oregon?”: Speech at UO explores topic

Students, faculty and alumni lined the walls and filled the aisles in Lillis 182 Thursday evening to hear speaker Walidah Imarisha’s talk titled “Why Aren’t There More Black People in Oregon?: A Hidden History.” Many people were turned away due to lack of seating and encouraged to watch the live ...

CSWS faculty affiliate Lamia Karim, an associate professor in the University of Oregon Department of Anthropology, received a Post-Ph.D. Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research to conduct ethnographic research on post-industrial workers in the global apparel industry in Bangladesh.

October 6, 2017—In his State of the University address, UO President Michael Schill talked about coming together in a shared sense of purpose.

CSWS proudly notes President Schill’s generous remarks that highlighted the research, teaching, and creative work of many CSWS leaders and faculty affiliates. These include CSWS director Michelle McKinley, CSWS Advisory Board member Gabriela Martínez, and faculty affiliates Marsha Weisiger, Karen Guillemin, Tannaz Farsi, and Joanna Goode, among many other UO faculty.