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Two Chosen as Graduate Interns for Fembot

The Fembot Collective has selected two University of Oregon graduate students as graduate interns to help work on Fembot projects, with special project funding awarded by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS). Jeremiah Favara and Tara Keegan will travel to Los Angeles in March for the event “Ms. Fembot 2016: A Digital Initiative for Civic Engagement,” to be held at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

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CSWS Noon Talk—“An Army of Some: Recruiting for Difference and Diversity in the U.S. Armed Forces”

“An Army of Some: Recruiting for Difference and Diversity in the U.S. Armed Forces” is the title of a CSWS noon talk scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, to be given by Jeremiah Favara. Jeremiah Favara is a graduate teaching fellow in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and a doctoral candidate in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.

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Highlighting the 2014-15 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellows

When Andrew Ferguson came to campus to explore UO’s superb collection of feminist science fiction, he wasn’t expecting to uncover the original manuscript of Ursula Le Guin’s Tehanu hidden away in the archives. Although archival materials for Tehanu were what he came looking for, finding and identifying the original manuscript came as a happy surprise.

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Spiderwoman Theater: Bringing Light to Native American and Women's Issues | KLCC

Muriel Miguel is director and co-founder of Spiderwoman Theater Company, the oldest Native women’s theater ensemble in North America. She speaks with Eric Alan about using theater and storytelling to shed light on issues such as violence against women, and gay and lesbian relationships in Native nations. She was in residence at the UO from May 10-16, 2015.

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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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