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Graduate Student Coffee Hour

Join us for conversation, coffee, pizza, and other good food. Meet with CSWS interim director Carol Stabile to learn more about research grants, research interest groups, and additional opportunities for graduate students through CSWS.

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Ellen Herman named new Faculty Codirector of the Wayne Morse Center

June 1, 2015—The Office of Academic Affairs is pleased to announce that Professor Herman will be the new Faculty Codirector of the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. Professor Herman is currently Chair of the Department of History and will begin her five-year appointment in January 2016 following the retirement of Margaret Hallock, the current Faculty Codirector. She was appointed following an internal search conducted by the Office of Academic Affairs.

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UO Today with Novella Carpenter - YouTube

Published on May 20, 2015 Novella Carpenter, a writer and urban farmer in Oakland, California. Her memoir Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer was published in 2009. Carpenter was a keynote author in “Our Daily Bread: Women’s Stories of Food and Resilience,” the 4th Annual CSWS Northwest Women Writer’s Symposium, held May 7th to 9th, 2015.

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UO Today with Diana Abu-Jaber - YouTube

Published on May 15, 2015 Diana Abu-Jaber, author of four novels Arabian Jazz, Crescent, Origin, and Birds of Paradise; as well as a memoir The Language of Baklava. Abu-Jaber was a keynote author in “Our Daily Bread: Women’s Stories of Food and Resilience,” the 4th Annual CSWS Northwest Women Writer’s Symposium, held May 7th to 9th, 2015.

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Film screening of “All About My Mother”

Please join CSWS’s Social Sciences Feminist Network Research Interest Group (SSFN-RIG) in celebrating the end of the academic year with a film screening of All About My Mother, directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Following the film we will discuss the movie's themes through a feminist lens.

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Michelle McKinley

Michelle McKinley wins the Ligia Parra Jahn Award

Michelle McKinley, UO law professor and CSWS affiliate is the 2014 winner of the Ligia Parra Jahn Award. This award is given for the best publication (book or article) on women’s history or publication written by a woman and published in 2014 that began as a Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS) presentation. Dr. McKinley was chosen as the winner for her Journal of Family History article: “Illicit Intimacies: Virtuous Concubinage in Colonial Lima.”

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Now live from Fembot: Ada Issue no. 7, Open Call!

CSWS is delighted to announce the publication of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, Issue 7, edited by Carol Stabile and Radhika Gajjala, and published online by the Fembot Collective, which is supported by funding from the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society.

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Bread 101 Wins a 2015 Pedagogy Award

The five-member teaching team for “Bread 101,” an interdisciplinary Clark Honors College class taught during the 2013-14 Academic Year, has won the 2015 Pedagogy Award from the national food studies organization, the Association for the Study of Food in Society. The committee cited the team’s innovative approach to teaching food.

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2015-16 CSWS Jane Grant Fellowship and Graduate and Faculty Grant Awardees

March 19, 2015—The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon recently awarded about $111,000 in graduate student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender during the 2015-16 Academic Year. The funded scholars come from across the university, representing a number of departments in the College of Arts and Sciences as well as the School of Journalism and Communication and the School of Law.

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Dr. Lynn Stephen’s book “We are the Face of Oaxaca” chosen for national award

March 11, 2015—A book authored by Professor Lynn Stephen, director, UO Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, has been named the recipient of the 2015 Delmos Jones and Jagna Scharff Memorial Book Award from the Society for the Anthropology of North America. We are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements (Duke University Press, October 2013) tells the story of a massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca, which began with the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in June 2006.

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Susan Reverby, “Escaping Melodrama:  How Should We Think about the Immoral Research Studies in Tuskegee and Guatemala?”

Susan M. Reverby—the Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and a professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Wellesley College—will give a public lecture at the University of Oregon in Allen Hall 221 on March 3. Her lecture is titled,  “Escaping Melodrama: How Should We Think about the Immoral Research Studies in Tuskegee and Guatemala?”.  This talk is sponsored by the CSWS Narrative, Health, and Social Justice Research Interest Group (RIG).

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micha cárdenas, “Shifting Poetics: Trans of Color Movement in Digital Media”

After unprecedented visibility for trans women of color in 2014, the number of murders of trans women more than doubled in 2015. In this talk, cárdenas elaborates a trans of color poetics that can improve the chances of life for transgender women of color, who continue to be the number one target of murder among LGBTQ people in the US. cárdenas will discuss her practice-based research projects, including Local Autonomy Networks (Autonets), Redshift and Portalmetal and UNSTOPPABLE.

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2015 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium

The fourth annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium will be held Thursday May 7, 2015, through Saturday May 9, 2015. Diana Abu-Jaber (Crescent; The Language of Baklava; Birds of Paradise) is the keynote author and will be joined by writers Novella Carpenter (Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer); scholar, activist, social justice novelist, editor Breeze Harper (Sistah Vegan; Scars); poet Donna Henderson (The Eddy Fence), and others.

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Jessaca Leinaweaver: “Collaborative Research on Children, Caregiving, and Migration in Peru”

Jessaca Leinaweaver conducts research in cultural anthropology and anthropological demography within Peru and the Peruvian diaspora. She has published on informal child fostering in the urban Andes, aging in Andean Peru, and transnational adoption and migration from Peru to Spain. She is an associate professor of anthropology at Brown University. She won the Margaret Mead Award for her first book, The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru.

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Erica Rand Noon Talk Poster.

“Hip Checks and a Garish Pink Box: Queer Experiments in Looking and Writing,” a CSWS Noon Talk with Erica Rand

As raced markers of gender and sexuality, hips bear weight and meaning, fate and contradiction. Beginning in the story of a gift offered across numerous divides—rural/urban, female/femme, hips shaped and shapely—this talk reflects on queer objects and paths of interpretation and communication, aiming to interrupt some received notions about intellectual heft and fluff, about what meaning making and whose meaning making matters. Erica Rand is the Whitehouse Professor of Art and Visual Culture and of Women and Gender Studies at Bates College (Maine). In the fall of 2014, she taught a course on Queer and Trans Sports studies at the University of Oregon.

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Dr. Breeze Harper to talk about “Scars of Suffering and Healing: A Black Feminist Vegan Perspective on Writing, Race, and Neoliberal Whiteness”

Breeze Harper, editor of the anthology Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak On Food, Identity, Health, and Society, and the author of the social justice novel Scars: A Black Lesbian Experience in Rural White New England (2014) will talk about her writing and activism. Sistah Vegan is a groundbreaking anthology that examined how race and gender shape the vegan experience in the United States.

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Michael Hames-García

UO Today #595 guest: Michael Hames-García

Watch this videotaped interview with the director of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS). Michael Hames-García, professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies, talks about his role as the first male director of CSWS. In addition he discusses his research on race and incarceration in the U.S., gender and sexuality, and theories of identity. Produced for UO Today by the Oregon Humanities Center at the University of Oregon.

Posted on Dec 23rd, 2014 in Oregon Humanities Center, UO Today

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NWWS: A conversation with bestselling “Farm City” author Novella Carpenter

Best-selling journalist and memoirist will talk about her urban farm experience in downtown Oakland, California in a conversation moderated by award-winning food blogger Jennifer Burns Bright (UO Departments of English and Comparative Literature). Carpenter is the author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer and Gone Feral: Tracking My Dad Through the Wild and coauthor of The Essential Urban Farmer. She studied food writing with Michael Pollan at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her work has appeared in Food and Wine, Mother Jones, Salon.com, and other publications. Carpenter lives and farms near downtown Oakland.

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Cuban science fiction scholar Yasmín S. Portales Machado to speak at CSWS

A science fiction scholar and gay rights activist, Yasmín S. Portales Machado is a freelance journalist for cubaliteraria.cu and havanatimes.org. She is the coordinator in Cuba of the “Anticapitalism and Emergent Sociability” Work Group of the Latin American Council for Social Sciences and founder of the Cuban Digital Humanities Network.

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“To Gain Title to Our Bodies: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance in the Civil Rights Era,” a lecture by Danielle McGuire

Danielle McGuire argues that Black women’s protests against sexual assault and interracial rape fueled the modern civil rights movement and that even the most well-known movement campaigns — the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott, the 1964 Freedom Summer, and the 1965 Selma March — are rooted in the struggle for bodily integrity and the defense of Black womanhood.

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“Internal or Transnational? Zapotec Women’s Migration Dilemmas,” a CSWS Noon Talk with Iván Sandoval Cervantes

For women of the Zapotec community of Santa Ana Zegache, discussing migration presents gender specific dilemmas. In this presentation, Iván Sandoval Cervantes provides an historical analysis of the different migration movements in which women from Santa Ana Zegache have participated: Zegacheñas have migrated to Mexico City, to the United States, and to Oaxaca City. He also explores how the constraints that women face before, during, and after migrating are different from those faced by men.

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Road Scholars Presentation: Queens and Amazons in Renaissance Art and History

This CSWS Road Scholars presentation offers 16th- and 17th-century literature and music—together with visual images of paintings, engravings, and sculptures —that portray women forcefully as queens and Amazons. he women in these roles display a confident assumption of equivalence with men, strong agency, and loyal friendship and, at times, passionate love for other noble women. The images of heroic and ruling women we’ve gathered appear in cultural sites —the aristocracy, monarchies, the Catholic Church, convents, and other places.

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The Hunting Ground: a screening

The documentary The Hunting Ground will premiere at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, at the University of Oregon’s Global Scholars Hall, 1710 E. 15th Ave., Eugene. A discussion will follow the screening. The Hunting Ground is a startling exposé of rape crimes on U.S. campuses, institutional cover-ups and the brutal social toll on victims and their families. Weaving together verité footage and first-person testimonies, the film follows survivors as they pursue their education while fighting for justice—despite harsh retaliation, harassment and pushback at every level.

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“The Supreme Price” movie poster.

Film Showing: “The Supreme Price”

The Supreme Price, directed and produced by Joanna Lipper, is a feature length documentary film that traces the evolution of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Nigeria and efforts to increase the participation of women in leadership roles. Following the annulment of her father’s victory in Nigeria’s presidential election and her mother’s assassination by agents of the military dictatorship, Hafsat Abiola faces the challenge of transforming a corrupt culture of governance into a democracy capable of serving Nigeria’s most marginalized population: women.

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CSWS Announces 2014-15 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellows

November 13, 2014—A classics professor and a PhD candidate in English, both from southeastern U.S. universities, have been named as recipients of the second annual Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. Jennifer Rea is an associate professor of classics at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Andrew Ferguson is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Virginia.

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Fembot’s November 2014 BAD Interview: Asian American Women’s Popular Literature

November 15, 2014—Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for November 2014 is now uploaded on the Fembot website. In this month’s interview, Kelly Adams (PhD candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison) talks with Pamela Thoma (associate professor, Washington State University), author of Asian American Women’s Popular Literature: Feminizing Genres and Neoliberal Belonging (Temple University Press, 2014).

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Senate Task Force Report Cover Page.

Twenty Students Per Week: The Report of the University Senate Task Force to Address Sexual Violence and Survivor Support

November 6, 2014—The University of Oregon Senate task force charged with studying sexual assault prevention methods at UO has released its final report, “Twenty Students Per Week: The Report of the University Senate Task Force to Address Sexual Violence and Survivor Support.”  The task force, co-chaired by former CSWS director Carol Stabile (School of Journalism and Communication and Department of Women’s and Gender Studies) and Randy Sullivan (Department of Chemistry), made a series of recommendations to the UO administration concerning the institution’s handling

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Meeting Regulations for Human Subjects Research

Carolyn Craig, research compliance administrator with UO Research Compliance Services, will give a brief introduction on requirements for human subjects research, followed by a question-and-answer session. She will be joined by Mary Hanabury, Research Compliance Services’ assistant director.

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Homelessness and Home: videos on homeless women in Eugene

Homelessness and Home is the website of the Community Philosophy Institute in the UO Philosophy Department. The purpose of the website is “to support creative, intellectual, and practical address of the problems of homelessness. The UO Community Philosophy Institute seeks to consider contemporary homelessness in our own community of Eugene, Oregon, and beyond.”

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Panel linked to CSWS-funded survey proposes UO sexual violence office

Eugene, OR—A task force charged with studying sexual assault prevention methods at the University of Oregon recommended the creation of a single office on campus for sexual and gender violence. This was among 23 recommendations presented on October 22 to the University of Oregon Senate by the task force co-chairwoman, Carol Stabile, former director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society and a professor in the UO School of Journalism and Communication and Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.

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