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)
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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!
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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.
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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.
Lidia Yuknavitch at the 2012 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium / photo by Robert Hill Long.
Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Poster PDF
Panel: Combining Activism and Research: Synergies and Obstacles
Presentations by:
Gabriela MartinezSee story in Around the O
Dr. Lamia Karim's book Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) recently came out in a Korean edition (Maybooks, 2015).
Editor’s Note: Ada is a publication of the Fembot Collective. Fembot is a CSWS Special Project.
Call for papers: Open issue Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology | adanewmedia.org Issue 10, forthcoming November 2016
http://fembotcollective.org/blog/2015/09/22/call-for-papers-issue-10-open-call/
Edited by Radhika Gajjala (Bowling Green State University) and Carol Stabile (University of Oregon)
Geri RichmondEditor’s Note: is a CSWS Faculty Affiliate.
campus location: Knight Library, Browsing Rm community location: downtown Eugene Public Library #crossingborders for live tweeting at some events
5th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus
Dr. Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Department of History, University of California-Davis, “The Ancient and The Modern Customary and Civil Marriage & Family Law in Gabon”
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.
