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Roundtable “Achieving Justice: Gendered Violence, Displacement, and Legal Access in Guatemala and Oregon”
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) Ford Lecture Hall 1430 Johnson Lane UO campus PDF: printable flyer
Evelyn Nakano Glenn to deliver inaugural CSWS Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture
Knight Library Browsing Rm 1501 Kincaid St., UO campus Flyer: printable PDF
“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 OregonProfessor Juana Maria Rodriguez, University of California, Berkeley
Imaginactivism: Author & Activist Starhawk on Social and Environmental Justice
Two appearances in two different locations.
CSWS Research Grant Proposals due January 30
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:
Saru Jayaraman—Food First: Justice, Security, and Sovereignty
Knight Library, Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Opening panel, film & keynote Free & open to the public
Lorwin Lecture Series: Keynote: (3:30–5 pm). “Forked: A New Standard for American Dining”
Food Fight: Forked Author Discusses Food Industry Labor Issues | eugeneweekly.com
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.Source: Food Fight: Forked Author Discusses Food Industry Labor Issues | eugeneweekly.com
UO advisor Alisa Freedman receives one of her profession’s high honors
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
Professor Carol Silverman confronts the persecution faced by Roma people
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.
“Gender Justice in Guatemala: Advances and Challenges,” with Erin Beck and Lynn Stephen
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.
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!
Alexis Lothian: Sally Miller Gearhart Lecture in Lesbian 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
2016 James Tiptree, Jr. Symposium: A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin | UO Libraries
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.Source: 2016 James Tiptree, Jr. Symposium: A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin | UO Libraries
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.
CSWS Research Matters Fall 2016: Sharon Luk’s “The Life of Paper, a Poetics”
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
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.
Art And Activism With Cherríe Moraga | Jefferson Public Radio
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 sheSource: Art And Activism With Cherríe Moraga | Jefferson Public Radio
In loving memory: Sandi Morgen 1950-2016
Sandra Lynn Morgen
March 31, 1950 - September 27, 2016
"Let me live lovingly, generously, courageously..."
CSWS table at New Graduate Student Resource Fair and Orientation
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
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.
disjecta - Disjecta Dialogues: Charlene Liu and Wendy Red Star in Conversation
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/
Memorial set for revolutionary UO sociology professor Joan Acker
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/
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.”
Jane Grant Fellow publishes article on internal migration of Oaxacan indigenous women
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.