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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.

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/

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.

His article, “Navigating the City: Internal Migration of Oaxacan Indigenous Women,” derived from his doctoral dissertation that was in part funded by the CSWS fellowship, has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

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.

CHERRÍE MORAGA

"The Last Exhale of Our Mother’s Breath" — The ‘Work' of the First Generation Writer Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 6:00 PM Crater Lake Room Erb Memorial Union (EMU) 1222 E.

Application Deadline: Friday, September 2, 2016

Printable flyer

Le Guin Funding Details

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. printable PDF

Andrew Ferguson, Le Guin Fellow

How 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.

Reyna Grande garnered critical acclaim and awards for her first two novels. Then she turned her focus on herself for a memoir about her illegal

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, Oregon

In 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 Hamid

Feb. 29, 2016—Source: Research forum puts graduate students in the spotlight | Around the O