Michelle McKinley (left) & Dena Zaldúa / photo by Alice EvansJune 27, 2016—The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon welcomes two new leaders to its staff effective July 1, 2016.
Anya Kivarkis, a UO associate professor of art and a faculty affiliate of the CSWS Women of Color Project, is one of five Oregon artists named Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts for 2016. Presented by the Ford Family Foundation, this honor comes with an unrestricted award of $25,000.
Applications for CSWS Travel Grants are due Nov. 7. These small grants (up to $300) are available for UO faculty, staff (with the appropriate end degree), and graduate students for travel expenses to be incurred from January 1 – June 30, 2017. These grants provide partial support for travel to present papers that relate to women and gender at a conference, or for a professional activity related to women and gender. See grant guidelines for more specifics.
Deadline: November 7, 2016, 5 p.m.
June 27, 2016—Two CSWS faculty affiliates were selected as this year’s recipients of the UO’s Williams Fellowships.
Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall 1408 University St.
Imaginactivism: Science Fiction and Social Justice Projects
a CSWS Noon Talk presented by visiting scholar Joan Haran
June 10, 2016—Long-time CSWS faculty affiliates and Courtney Thorsson are among 15 recipients of the 2016-17 Faculty Excellence Award. The Faculty Excellence Award is granted through the UO Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs.
June 9, 2016 — CSWS took in a record number of travel grant applications during the spring-term 2016 submission period.
10/13 Bilingual Reading: 2 PM Crater Lake Room North, 146 Erb Memorial Union 10/11 Film Screening: 7:30 PM, Global Scholars Hall 132
Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) is back and we’re kicking it off with Mara Williams’s (Doctoral Candidate, University of Oregon) interview with Lisa Henderson (Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst) on her book, Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production (New York University Press, 2013). You can listen to this interview at:
http://fembotcollective.org/blog/2016/06/06/books-arent-dead-bad-interview-lisa-henderson/
About Love and Money:
Transformative Philanthropy
November 9, 2016 Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus
Straub Hall Room 245 1451 Onyx St. UO campus
Public Lecture: Le sens de l’écriture de Gisèle Pineau dans le contexte post-colonial français / The Meaning of Gisèle Pineau’s Writing in the French Postcolonial Context
(in French, with simultaneous translation)
Jane Grant Conference Rm
330 Hendricks Hall
1408 University St.
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Andrew Ferguson, Le Guin FellowHow to Apply for Le Guin Funding 2016-17 Due 9/2/2016
Long-time CSWS faculty affiliate Alisa Freedman, associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected as a winner of a 2016 University of Oregon Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Award. Dr. Freedman has been named an Outstanding Faculty Advisor.
UO Today interviews Ariel Gore, editor & publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of eight books. Gore appeared at the 5th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium, held May 6 - 8, 2016, on the UO campus and at downtown Eugene Public Library. She was interviewed for UO Today by Paul Peppis, director of the Oregon Humanities Center. The interview can be accessed via this embedded link.
Reyna Grande garnered critical acclaim and awards for her first two novels. Then she turned her focus on herself for a memoir about her illegalSource: Illegal Immigration, First-Person | Jefferson Public Radio
May 5, 2016—Jefferson Public Radio interviewed author Reyna Grande on the eve of her visit to the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium.
Source: Immigrants’ struggle is really our struggle | Opinion | Eugene, OregonIn the midst of this political season’s hateful hullabaloo about building a higher wall, all of us whose ancestors came to this country from other lands must in good conscience challenge ourselves to consider the personal story — and to take a closer look at history.
Editor’s Note: Professor is a CSWS faculty affiliate. CSWS has supported Freyd’s work through faculty research grants.
April 8, 2016—“UO psychologist , who pioneered the study of betrayal trauma, was honored April 2 in San Francisco with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.
The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon recently awarded more than $66,000 in graduate student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender during the 2016-17 Academic Year. The research being funded includes projects focused all over the globe. Graduate teaching fellow was chosen from a strong pool of applicants to receive the prestigious Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship.
Editor”s Note: CSWS faculty affiliate , associate professor, romance languages, received a 2015-16 CSWS Faculty Research Grant for her research “Spanish Women in the French Resistance and Ravensbruck” and a 2009-10 CSWS Faculty Research Grant for “Voices of the Vanquished: Spanish Republican Women in War and Prison.” Her research recently earned Herrmann a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, the CSWS-initiated Fembot Collective had a busy and productive time at its second annual Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon held in the Ms. Magazine offices in Beverly Hills on March 11, 2016.
Lynn Stephen, professor of anthropology and codirector of the UO Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, combines her research and refugees’ stories into a powerful petition for political asylum. Read about her work as an expert witness for more than two-dozen refugees from Mexico and Guatemala in: Freedom Fighter | Cascade: University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences.
Sarah HamidFeb. 29, 2016—Source: Research forum puts graduate students in the spotlight | Around the O
Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema
by David Leiwei Li (Routledge, March 2016, 230 pages)
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Alder Building Conference Rm (first floor)
818 E. 15th Ave.
UO campus
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Opening reception: 4:30-5:00 Talk: 5:00-6:30
“Running from Office: Why Young Americans are Turned Off to Politics”
with Jennifer Lawless
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus
Knight Library Room 122
Come join the Fembot Collective for our Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to contribute figures, movements, organizations, and ideas historically marginalized because of gender, race, and sexuality into Wikipedia!
Lawrence Room 115
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In collaboration with Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Psi Chi will host , a Ford Fellow and doctoral candidate in Professor Jennifer Freyd's Dynamics Lab in the Department of Psychology at UO.
Browsing Room
Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.
Eugene, OR 97403
UO campus
