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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.

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 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

Room 141 UO School of Law Knight Law Center

Source: 'Water by the Spoonful' to debut at Hope Theater | Around the O

Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema by David Leiwei Li (Routledge, March 2016, 230 pages) Synopsis

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

Downtown Eugene Public Library 10th and Olive 100 W. 10th St. Eugene, OR 97401 Takes place during First Friday Art Walk Full Schedule: 2016 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium

“From Iguala to El Otro Lado: A young girl's journey to the American Dream”

Keynote Reading & Talk with followed by Q & A and book signing

Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. Eugene, OR  97403 UO campus

Full Schedule: 2016 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium Reception: 2:30 -3:30 immediately preceding this event

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus

Dr. Angela Montague, University of Oregon, “Rites vs. Rights: Female Genital Cutting in Sub-Saharan Africa”

Dr. Montague is a postdoctoral teaching fellow, UO Department of Anthropology, and an adjunct instructor, Department of International Studies. This lecture is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Gender in Africa and the African Diaspora Research Interest Group and the African Studies Program.

Full Schedule: http://csws.uoregon.edu/events-2/2014-nwws/2016-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium/

5th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium

Global Scholars Hall Room 123 (Great Room) Poster PDF

Irma Velásquez, “Activism and Social Change in Postwar Guatemala.”

Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj will speak about activism and social change in postwar Guatemala in a talk at the Global Scholars Hall at 5 pm on May 11.

Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Poster PDF

Panel: Combining Activism and Research: Synergies and Obstacles

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