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.

Source: First Acker-Morgen Lecture will honor two UO feminist scholars | Around the O

See also: http://csws.uoregon.edu/evelyn-nakano-glenn/

March 6, 2017 — University of Oregon professor , founding director of the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, was elected vice-president of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for the term beginning June 1, 2017 and ending May 31, 2018. On June 1, 2018, she will assume the presidency of LASA for a 12-month period, until May 31, 2019. Dr. Stephen holds the title of Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology.

On May 25, CSWS will celebrate the release of Director Michelle McKinley's book, Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700 (Cambridge Un

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

February 2, 2017—Cultural anthropologist Aletta Biersack, whose research in Papua, New Guinea, has been supported in part by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant, has two new volumes just out.

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

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) Ford Lecture Hall 1430 Johnson Lane UO campus PDF: printable flyer

Knight Library Browsing Rm 1501 Kincaid St., UO campus Flyer: printable PDF

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.

Proposals for CSWS research support grants for faculty, staff, graduate, and undergraduate students are due by 5 p.m. on January 30, 2017.

Guidelines and applications are available at: http://csws.uoregon.edu/funding/research-grants/

These support grants include:

Knight Library, Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Opening panel, film & keynote Free & open to the public

Printable poster PDF

Lorwin Lecture Series: Keynote: (3:30–5 pm). “Forked: A New Standard for American Dining”

Seventeen states, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, still pay the federal minimum wage of $2.13 per hour to workers who receive more than $30 in tips per month, according to the U.S.

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

Source: Professor confronts the persecution faced by Roma people | Around the O

In this story from Around the O, CSWS faculty affiliate and anthropology professor Carol Silverman talks about her research among the Roma people, and the racial profiling they experience in Europe and the United States.

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