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“Gender, Sexuality, and Leisure in Africa” Symposium

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.

Juana Maria Rodriguez to deliver Sally Miller Gearheart Lecture

Crater Lake South Erb Memorial Union (EMU) 1222 E. 13th Ave. UO campus

"Feeling Photography, Visualizing Testimony, Imagining Alterity"

Keynote, Sally Gearheart Lecture, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Oregon

Professor Juana Maria Rodriguez, University of California, Berkeley

Bridge of Cries?

We were walking through McKenzie Hall yesterday and came across this sign on the 4th 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!lactation-room-photo

Remembering Sandra Morgen

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.

Transformative Times

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.

Celebration of Life: Sandi Morgen

sandi_morgenGuistina 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.

Winona LaDuke: “Rights of Nature”

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.

Promising Practices

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


In Memory of Joan Acker: 1924 - 2016

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.

Women in physics face big hurdles — still

Persistent biases continue to affect the numbers of female physicists.
August 1, 2016: “There are more women in the sciences than ever before. They hold leading faculty and administrative positions while their representation in fields such as biology, sociology and psychology has increased. Yet the physical sciences are woefully behind when it comes to the number of women at all levels.

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

Fantasmas de la historia: Racismo y Violencia Policial en los Estados Unidos

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.”