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
March 31, 1950 - September 27, 2016
"Let me live lovingly, generously, courageously..."
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 EvansJune 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 FellowHow 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.
The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon recently awarded more than $66,000 in graduate student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender during the 2016-17 Academic Year. The research being funded includes projects focused all over the globe. Graduate teaching fellow was chosen from a strong pool of applicants to receive the prestigious Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship.
In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, the CSWS-initiated Fembot Collective had a busy and productive time at its second annual Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon held in the Ms. Magazine offices in Beverly Hills on March 11, 2016.
Lynn Stephen, professor of anthropology and codirector of the UO Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, combines her research and refugees’ stories into a powerful petition for political asylum. Read about her work as an expert witness for more than two-dozen refugees from Mexico and Guatemala in: Freedom Fighter | Cascade: University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences.
Sarah HamidFeb. 29, 2016—Source: Research forum puts graduate students in the spotlight | Around the O
Alder Building Conference Rm (first floor)
818 E. 15th Ave.
UO campus
Knight Library Room 122
Come join the Fembot Collective for our Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to contribute figures, movements, organizations, and ideas historically marginalized because of gender, race, and sexuality into Wikipedia!
