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

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.

2016, Fall: CSWS Research Matters

“The Life of Paper, a Poetics: Letters and Mass Incarceration in Global California,” by Sharon Luk, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Department of English

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.

To call Cherríe Moraga a writer understates the case. She is that, yes, but also an activist on behalf of people of color, particularly women. And she

2016 CSWS Annual Review

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.

Promising practices for institutional support for families! CSWS was thrilled to see this memo from the Brown University Provost.

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.

Persistent biases continue to affect the numbers of female physicists.

“‘Physics and engineering both have big gender divides,’ says Eric Brewe, a physics education researcher at Florida International University in Miami.