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NWWS: Saturday afternoon readings & talks

The symposium includes panel discussions, writing workshops, a keynote talk, author conversations & readings, book signings, and discussion. Our theme is “Crossing Borders: Women’s Stories of Immigration, Migration, and Transition.” May 6-8, 2016.

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NWWS: Zapotec hip-hop artist Mare Advertencia Lirika in performance

Mare, a Zapotec hip-hop artist from Oaxaca, Mexico, and founder of Advertencia Lirika, will appear on tour for her new CD, SiempreViva. Mare uses her rap as a tool to develop consciousness and to build networks within social movements in Oaxaca and elsewhere. Always looking to expose the gender inequality that exists in society, she has worked with a wide range of groups and organizations within Mexico and throughout the world.

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Call for papers: open issue Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology

We invite contributions to a peer-reviewed open call issue featuring research on gender, new media and technology. We are particularly interested in contributions that exemplify Ada’s commitments to politically engaged, intersectional approaches to scholarship on gender, new media and technology. Contributions in formats other than the traditional essay are encouraged; please contact the editors to discuss specifications and/or multimodal contributions.

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Latina Feminists of the Latina/o Theatre Commons poster.

Latina Feminists of the Latina/o Theatre Commons

Latina / Latinx leadership in the arts has transformed since the days of el movimiento! The powerful art, music & teatro of the Chicano Rights movement of the 60s & 70s inspired generations and the changes just keep coming… Playwrights, directors, theatre makers: Anne García-Romero, Teresa Marrera, Irma Mayorga, and Beatriz Rizk are four vibrant artists and scholars who have led the way through their creativity and relentless inquiry, now on the national leadership team of the Latina/o Theatre Commons.

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"Sad Happiness" film poster.

NWWS documentary premiere “Sad Happiness: Cinthya’s Transborder Journey” with director Lynn Stephen

Directed by Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon (Anthropology and Ethnic Studies) and codirector of the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS). Produced by Sonia De La Cruz and Lynn Stephen.

Sad Happiness: Cinthya’s Transborder Journey explores the differential rights that U.S. citizen children and their undocumented parents have through the story of one extended Zapotec family. Shot in Oregon and Oaxaca, Mexico, and narrated by 11-year old Cinthya, the film follows Cinthya’s trip to her parent’s home community of Teotitlán del Valle with her godmother, anthropologist Lynn Stephen. There she meets her extended family and discovers her indigenous Zapotec and Mexican roots.

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Elizabeth Armstrong, “Sex, Alcohol, & Violence: How Status Competition Creates Risk”

College professor Elizabeth A. Armstrong spent five years inhabiting a dorm room on the Indiana University campus while studying the party culture that dominates student social life. In a public lecture titled “Sex, Alcohol, and Violence: How Status Competition Creates Risk,” Dr. Armstrong will talk about what she learned at 7 p.m., Thursday April 21, at the Ford Alumni Center’s Giustina Ballroom, 1720 E. 13th Ave., on the University of Oregon campus.

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Yeti Campus Stories & Sexism in the Digital College Party Scene event poster.

Yeti Campus Stories & Sexism in the Digital College Party Scene

Jeremiah Favara is a Graduate Teaching Fellow in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and a doctoral candidate in the School of Journalism and Communication. Focusing on representations of college party culture on Yeti: Campus Stories, a social media app, this presentation explores the role of social media in perpetuating and countering sexist spaces on college campuses.

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Documentary screening poster for "Keep Your Eyes on Guatemala".

Documentary Screening: Keep Your Eyes on Guatemala, with filmmaker Gabriela Martínez

Keep Your Eyes on Guatemala tells the story of Guatemala's National Police Historical Archive intertwined with narratives of past human rights abuses and the dramatic effects they had on specific individuals and the nation as a whole. In addition, it highlights present-day efforts to preserve collective memories and bring justice and reconciliation to the country. TRT 54 min.

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“Love, Money, and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS,” a lecture by Sanyu Mojola

A lecture sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Gender in Africa and the African Diaspora Research Interest Group. Sanyu A. Mojola is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Love, Money and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS (University of California Press, 2014).

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Asali Solomon: a reading with the author of Disgruntled event promotion.

Asali Solomon: a reading with the author of Disgruntled

Disgruntled, effortlessly funny and achingly poignant, follows eight-year-old Kenya from West Philadelphia to the suburbs, from public school to private, from childhood through adolescence, as she grows increasingly disgruntled by her inability to find any place or person that feels like home.

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Working Futures poster.

Working Futures: Perspectives on Labor from the Global South

Economic globalization has fundamentally reshaped class and gender dynamics around the world. It has brought millions of young women to work in urban industrial and service sectors, introducing new social roles, aspirations, and modes of precarity. In the industrial sector, labor has become increasingly militant in its demands for decent livelihoods. The symposium brings together scholarship from China, Bangladesh, and the Caribbean to critically examine labor dynamics that ensue from these transformations.

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Dr. Joan Haran

“Imaginactivism”: Scholar Joan Haran to Spend Two Years at CSWS as the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow

December 9, 2015—December 1 marked the starting date of scholar Joan Haran’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship at the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon. Dr. Haran will be tracking attempts to adapt Starhawk’s novel The Fifth Sacred Thing as a transmedia phenomenon. First published in 1993 and now in the process of becoming a cable TV series or feature film, The Fifth Sacred Thing involves a clash between the best and the worst of our possible futures.

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Missa Aloisi: “Architecture Without Ego”

STAnDD Lecture / University of Oregon Department of Architecture Winter Lecture Series
Missa Aloisi is a practicing architect in Burlington, Vermont. Her dedication to public interest design is rooted in a deep desire to understand and achieve true sustainability. She is a proud University of Oregon graduate and has studied architecture in Scotland and Japan, always with a sketchbook in hand.

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adrienne maree brown chosen as 2015-16 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow

Eugene, OR—adrienne maree brown, an independent science fiction scholar and a social justice activist, has been chosen as the 2015-16 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow. Brown lives in Detroit, Michigan, and is the coeditor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, published last March by AK Press, San Francisco.

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UO Feminist Scholar Lamia Karim Wins Prestigious Fellowship

November 17, 2015—, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, has been named a 2016-17 Fellow at the International Research Center “Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History” at Humboldt University in Berlin (IGK re:work) to complete her book manuscript Becoming Labor: Life Cycles of Female Garment Labor in Bangladesh. As a Fellow at IGK re:work, she will write on female labor in the readymade garment industry in Bangladesh, which is number two after China in apparel production.

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“G-Men Masculinity: The FBI’s War on Broadcasting,” a CSWS Noon Talk with Carol Stabile

Carol Stabile, interim director of CSWS, will talk about her research, followed by discussion. A professor in the UO School of Journalism and Communication and head of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, she is the author of Feminism and the Technological Fix, editor of Turning the Century: Essays in Media and Cultural Studies, co-editor of Prime Time Animation: Television Animation and American Culture, and author of White Victims, Black Villains: Gender, Race, and Crime News in US Culture.

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Two Chosen as Graduate Interns for Fembot

The Fembot Collective has selected two University of Oregon graduate students as graduate interns to help work on Fembot projects, with special project funding awarded by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS). Jeremiah Favara and Tara Keegan will travel to Los Angeles in March for the event “Ms. Fembot 2016: A Digital Initiative for Civic Engagement,” to be held at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

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Q&A with Carol Stabile, interim director of CSWS - Research and Innovation News

From the UO Office of the Vice President of Research & Innovation, an interview with Carol Stabile in the enewsletter Research and Innovation News.

Carol Stabile, professor of journalism and communication, was recently appointed interim director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society.

Source: Q&A with Carol Stabile, interim director of CSWS - Research and Innovation

 

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Marjorie Woollacott, “Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind,” book event

Marjorie Woollacott, UO Department of Human Physiology, is a member of the CSWS Healing Arts Research Interest Group. A neuroscientist, she has been the director of the Motor Control Lab at the University of Oregon since 1980. She will talk about her newest book, Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, October 2015), at two events in November, one on the UO campus in Eugene on Nov. 4, and one at the White Stag building in Portland on November 19.

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CSWS Noon Talk—“An Army of Some: Recruiting for Difference and Diversity in the U.S. Armed Forces”

“An Army of Some: Recruiting for Difference and Diversity in the U.S. Armed Forces” is the title of a CSWS noon talk scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, to be given by Jeremiah Favara. Jeremiah Favara is a graduate teaching fellow in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and a doctoral candidate in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.

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Tiptree Symposium | UO Libraries

The University of Oregon Libraries will celebrate the acquisition of the James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon) literary papers with a two-day symposium on December 4-5, 2015. James Tiptree, Jr. was the pen name of Alice Sheldon, an award winning feminist author of science fiction.

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Highlighting the 2014-15 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellows

When Andrew Ferguson came to campus to explore UO’s superb collection of feminist science fiction, he wasn’t expecting to uncover the original manuscript of Ursula Le Guin’s Tehanu hidden away in the archives. Although archival materials for Tehanu were what he came looking for, finding and identifying the original manuscript came as a happy surprise.

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LANDLINES: A public performance by poet Ana-Maurine Lara

Eugene, OR—On Saturday August 22 and Sunday August 23, 2015, Ana-Maurine Lara, winner of the Oregon Arts Commission Joan Shipley Award, will perform LANDLINES, a public event exploring the ideas home and homeland in Eugene. The Sephardic Jewish notion of kasa inspires two public processions that reflect on what home means for the multiple communities—Black, Native, Asian American, Jewish, Latino—that constitute Eugene. Costume designed by Shannon Dunbar. Photography by Dana Asbury.

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Audra Simpson, “We are Not Red Indians”: The Gender of Anticolonial Sovereignty Across the Borders of Time, Place and Sentiment

Audra Simpson, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University Talk: “We are Not Red Indians” (We Might all Be Red Indians): The Gender of Anticolonial Sovereignty Across the Borders of Time, Place and Sentiment Date/Location: November 17, 4-5:30 p.m., Knlght Library Browsing Room, University of Oregon Campus In addition to her public lecture, Dr. Simpson will be participating in an informal conversation with students, faculty, staff, and community members.

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Spiderwoman Theater: Bringing Light to Native American and Women's Issues | KLCC

Muriel Miguel is director and co-founder of Spiderwoman Theater Company, the oldest Native women’s theater ensemble in North America. She speaks with Eric Alan about using theater and storytelling to shed light on issues such as violence against women, and gay and lesbian relationships in Native nations. She was in residence at the UO from May 10-16, 2015.

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