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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.

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A celebration of life for anthropology professor Sandra Morgen will be held Tuesday, Nov. 29.

Morgen died Sept. 27 of ovarian cancer, at age 66. The celebration takes place from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Ford Alumni Center’s Giustina Ballroom.

Dear Friends, Champions, Supporters, and Colleagues of the Center for the Study of Women in Society,

We have tried to write this statement countless times over the past two weeks since a law professor wore blackface at her Halloween party.

First, there were no words. How could we even respond to that? Then, there were too many words – words that were inappropriate for public dissemination.

Guistina Ballroom Ford Alumni Center 1720 E. 13th Ave. Eugene OR 97403

Bring your dancing shoes!

Campus Celebration of Life set for Sandra Morgen, for November 29, 4 - 6 p.m.

Sandi was a beloved member of our feminist community and served as director of CSWS for many productive years.

Erb Memorial Union EMU Ballroom 1222 E. 13th Ave. UO campus

is a celebrated Native American activist and leader, environmentalist, speaker, and author. Residing on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, Ms. LaDuke is the Executive Director of Honor the Earth, where she works on the national level to advance Native environmental issues and sustainable Native communities.

Sandra Lynn Morgen

2016-2017 New Graduate Student Resource Fair and Orientation on Tuesday, September 20th on the EMU green between the EMU and Straub Hall.

Memorial Service: Saturday afternoon, Aug. 27, Gerlinger Lounge, UO campus

June 22, 2016—CSWS received word of the passing of feminist scholar , a leader of the original group that established a center to study women at the University of Oregon. Born in 1924, she joined the UO faculty in 1967 after earning her PhD in sociology at this institution.

The Cleaners, Ace Hotel Portland, OR 403 SW 10th Avenue at Stark St

Please join us for a conversation on art, family, and culture with Charlene Liu and Wendy Red Star. Presented By Ace Hotel Portland

Charlene Liu is an associate professor and the printmaking coordinator in the UO Department of Art and a member of the CSWS Women of Color Project. For images of her work: http://charlene-liu.com/

Source: Memorial set for revolutionary UO sociology professor Joan Acker | Around the O

http://around.uoregon.edu/content/memorial-set-revolutionary-uo-sociology-professor-joan-acker

See also: http://csws.uoregon.edu/memory-joan-acker-1924-2016/

Following the events in Dallas, CSWS faculty affiliate was asked to submit a short piece about racism and racial profiling by the Spanish newspaper La Razon. Dr. Reyes-Santos, an associate professor in the UO Department of Ethnic Studies, said that she is “trying to make sense of all we have been living as much as one can in a few words. And to foster bilingual, transnational conversations.”

July 12, 2016—Iván Sandoval-Cervantes, the 2015-16 CSWS Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship recipient, completed his PhD in anthropology at the University of Oregon in 2016 and is now a visiting assistant professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, at the University of Texas at El Paso.

His article, “Navigating the City: Internal Migration of Oaxacan Indigenous Women,” derived from his doctoral dissertation that was in part funded by the CSWS fellowship, has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Michelle McKinley (left) & Dena Zaldúa / photo by Alice Evans

June 27, 2016—The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon welcomes two new leaders to its staff effective July 1, 2016.

June 9, 2016 — CSWS took in a record number of travel grant applications during the spring-term 2016 submission period.

10/13 Bilingual Reading: 2 PM Crater Lake Room North, 146 Erb Memorial Union 10/11 Film Screening: 7:30 PM, Global Scholars Hall 132

Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) is back and we’re kicking it off with Mara Williams’s (Doctoral Candidate, University of Oregon) interview with Lisa Henderson (Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst) on her book, Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production (New York University Press, 2013). You can listen to this interview at:

http://fembotcollective.org/blog/2016/06/06/books-arent-dead-bad-interview-lisa-henderson/

About Love and Money:

Straub Hall Room 245 1451 Onyx St. UO campus

Public Lecture: Le sens de l’écriture de Gisèle Pineau dans le contexte post-colonial français / The Meaning of Gisèle Pineau’s Writing in the French Postcolonial Context

(in French, with simultaneous translation)

Jane Grant Conference Rm 330 Hendricks Hall 1408 University St. printable PDF

Andrew Ferguson, Le Guin Fellow

How to Apply for Le Guin Funding 2016-17   Due 9/2/2016

Editor’s Note: Professor is a CSWS faculty affiliate. CSWS has supported Freyd’s work through faculty research grants.

April 8, 2016—“UO psychologist , who pioneered the study of betrayal trauma, was honored April 2 in San Francisco with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.