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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.

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"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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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/

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/

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.”

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.

Michelle McKinley (left) & Dena Zaldúa / photo by Alice Evans

June 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.