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April 29, 2014—Jennifer Freyd, a CSWS faculty affiliate and University of Oregon psychology professor, “was part of a White House event Tuesday that included a major announcement on the effort to address sexual assaults on college campuses.”

The 17th-century Ethiopian book The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Wälättä P̣eṭros features a life-long partnership between two women and the depiction of same-sex sexuality among nuns. The earliest known book-length biography about the life of an African woman, written in 1672 in the Gəˁəz language, it is an extraordinary account of early modern African women’s lives—full of vivid dialogue, heartbreak, and triumph. It features revered Ethiopian religious leader Wälättä P̣eṭros (1592-1642), who led a nonviolent movement against European proto-colonialism in Ethiopia in a successful fight to retain African Christian beliefs, for which she was elevated to sainthood in the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥədo Church.

Carol A. Stabile, director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon, has been awarded a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship for 2014. A professor in the UO School of Journalism and Communication and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Dr. Stabile was selected for her book project, “Pink Channels: Women and the Broadcast Blacklist.”

Mia McKenzie is a black feminist writer and a smart, scrappy Philadelphian. She is a nerd and the creator of Black Girl Dangerous, a multi-faceted forum for the literary and artistic expression of queer and trans* people of color that is read by millions of people all over the globe.

From the spring 2014 issue of Oregon Outlook, an article about the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Jane Grant legacy: “Forty Years of Feminism.”

Established in 2014, the UO-CESV is a collaboration of faculty and students striving to raise awareness about sexual violence on our campus and to advocate for a safe and equitable educational experience. RIG members engage in research and activism to create institutional change at the University of Oregon.

April 10, 2014—“Needing more time to finish her doctoral work, in the UO's English department was thrilled to learn she is the winner of the Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship for the 2014-15 academic year.

Johanna Crane is a medical anthropologist with a background in English whose research brings together history, science, technological studies, medical humanities, bioethics, and global health. Her book Scrambling for Africa: AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science examines the changing U.S. response to the AIDS epidemic in Africa.

Jenée Wilde discusses the challenges and rewards of mixing ethnographic research methods with approaches to literary and visual media in her interdisciplinary project “Speculative Fictions, Bisexual Lives: Changing Frameworks of Sexual Desire.”

CSWS faculty affiliate Krista M. Chronister, associate professor in the UO Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services in the College of Education, led this study. Chronister’s research has been supported previously by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant.

Give a Laptop, Change the World: The Story of the OLPC in Ghana, a documentary by Leslie Steeves, examines the MIT Media Lab's One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project—which aims to make low cost computers accessible to the “world's poorest children”—and its implementation in two pilot schools, one urban and one rural, in Ghana, West Africa.

Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for April 2014 is now available on the Fembot website. In this BAD interview Magie Ramírez (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington) talks with Karma R. Chávez (Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison), author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013).

March 31, 2014—The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon recently awarded almost $80,000 in graduate student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender during the 2014-15 Academic Year.

CSWS helped support the Feminist Museum’s first pop-up exhibition, on display at LaVerne Krause Gallery in early March 2014. The Feminist Museum blog site now includes a timelapse video of the installation, a video tour of the space, and photos of paintings, sculptures, the graffiti board on different days—and just about everything.

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Gabriela Martínez will present Agents of Change: A Legacy of Feminist Research, Teaching and Activism at the University of Oregon, a film she produced with Sonia De La Cruz. The film, developed for the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, and the ASUO Women’s Center, chronicles the history of these units within the broader context of the Women’s Rights Movement.

CSWS’s Globalization and Alterity Research Interest Group is pleased to invite UO graduate students to its inaugural event, a screening of the documentary Don’t Shout Too Loud this Friday, March 13 at 6PM in the Digital Scholarship Center: Knight Library Room 142.

Jafari Sinclaire Allen will give a talk on “Black/Queer Here & There: Ethnography of An Idea” on March 11. Dr. Allen is an associate professor of African American studies and anthropology at Yale University who works at the intersections of [queer] sexuality, gender and blackness.

Join Us! For the Ms. Fembot Edit-a-Thon + Hack-a-Thon Friday, March 6, 2015 and Saturday, March 7, 2015.

Nancy Tuana is the DuPont–Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy and Director, Rock Ethics Institute at Pennsylvania State University. This event is sponsored by the UO Department of Philosophy with support from the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Center for the Study of Women in Society.

In the wake of a recent decision by the Constitutional Tribunal in the Dominican Republic, many Dominican youth of Haitian descent are unable to go to school, start a bank account, or get married for lack of proper documentation. This exhibition presents photographs by members of Reconoci.do, an organization of Dominican youth of Haitian descent that is struggling to reinstate their rights as nationals. The Spanish word “reconocido” translates to “recognized” or “acknowledged” in English. The photographs document the increasingly hostile situations that Dominicans of Haitian descent and Haitian migrants face on a daily basis as they seek recognition from the state.

Mary E. Wood, UO Department of English, will discuss her book Life Writing and Schizophrenia: Encounters at the Edge of Meaning on Tuesday, March 3, 2015. at 3:30 p.m. in the Humanities Center Conference Room. Professor Wood is a member of the CSWS Advisory Board.

Anjali Arondekar is an associate professor of Feminist Studies and Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research engages the poetics and politics of sexuality, geopolitics and historiography. Her first book, For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India,/em> won the 2010 Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for best book in lesbian, gay, or queer studies in literature and cultural studies from the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association.

Mary Koss, PhD, was coeditor of a two-book series for the American Psychological Association, Violence Against Women and Children (2011). Her first national study on acquaintance rape was published in 1987, and she developed the most frequently used survey to measure unwanted sexual experiences. Sponsored by the ASUO Women’s Center, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, and the UO Division of Student Life, Office of the Dean of Students.

Please consider yourselves warmly invited to the opening of “Recipe: The Kitchen and Laboratory in the West, 1400-2000,” an exhibition of rare books and ephemera in the collections of the UO Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) in Knight Library.

Free and open to public. Sponsored by the Department of English and the Collins Fund.

Rebecca Atencio, assistant professor of Spanish & Portuguese in the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University,  will offer a faculty workshop titled “Researching Human Rights in Latin America: Challenges, Resources, and Strategies” on February 24, 2015, from noon to 1:30 pm. EMU Metolius Room.

Margaret Jacobs, Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of Nebraska, will present a public lecture at the University of Oregon on Tuesday, February 24, from 3-5 p.m. in the Knight Library Browsing Room. It will be titled: “Remembering the Forgotten Child: the Indigenous Welfare Crisis of the 1960s-1970s.”

Michael Messner, professor of sociology, University of Southern California, will be the featured speaker for the UO Department of Sociology’s Winter Colloquium #6. He will speak on the subject of “Male Allies, and the Politics of Feminist Accountability.” Messner published most recently Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women.

Rebecca Atencio, assistant professor of Spanish & Portuguese in the Roger Thayer Stone Center For Latin American Studies at Tulane University, will give a public lecture titled “Official and Other Truths: Memories of Dictatorship in the Wake of Brazil’s National Truth Commission.”

The UO Department of Romance Languages and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History invite you to a reading and book signing by acclaimed Canadian writer Louise Dupré. Dupré will read selections of her poetry and prose, both in the original French and in English translation. The event is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served.

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Wayne Morse Chair visitor during winter term, will offer a lunchtime seminar at the Center for the Study of Women in Society. The date has been changed to February 19, 2015, at noon. Dr. Chun’s forthcoming article “Habits of Leaking: Of Sluts and Network Cards” will form the basis of her seminar. It is a fascinating analysis of how our public networks blame the user for self-exposure and consequent attacks rather than the very nature of the internet and networks.

Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva is an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Washington, Department of History. She earned her B.A. at the Universidad de Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rodriguez-Silva is the author of the award-winning book Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico.

Fembot’s February Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview couldn’t come at a more important time, especially in light of last month’s Elk River chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia. In this BAD interview Sue Dockstader (MS, University of Oregon) talks with Shannon Bell (assistant professor, University of Kentucky), author of Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013).

Agents of Change chronicles the development of the University of Oregon Center for the Study of Women in Society and the UO Department of Women’s and Gender Studies within the broader context of the women’s movement. Screening of documentary followed by Q & A with director Gabriela Martínez and co-producer Sonia De La Cruz. Free and open to the public.

According to UO President Gottfredson’s message dated Dec. 7, 2012, “Oregon law requires that all University employees with credible evidence that any form of prohibited discrimination by or against students, faculty or staff is occurring have a duty to report that information. ‘Prohibited discrimination’ includes discrimination, and discriminatory harassment, including sexual harassment and sexual assault. Reports are to be made to the employee’s supervisor or to the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity.”

Professor Milkman’s talk and her current research revisit a topic she explored early in her career: the impact of economic crisis on women workers. Through a comparative analysis of the gender dynamics of the 1930s Great Depression and the recent Great Recession, she is assessing the changes and continuities in gender, work, and family in the United States over the past century. Professor Milkman's talk is being co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Department of History, Center for the Study of Women and Society, UO Labor Education and Research Center, and Department of Women's and Gender Studies.

Calling undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff to engage in a collaborative conference to create interdisciplinary solutions to gender discrimination.

PhD candidate Megan Burke (philosophy) will give a lunch-time talk related to her dissertation research. This talk will examine the way in which sexual violence is integral to the production and lived experience of gendered subjectivity by focusing on the philosophical question of temporality. Burke’s research and teaching interests include Feminist Philosophy, Existential Phenomenology, 20th Century Continental Philosophy, and Social-Political Philosophy.

CSWS associate director Gabriela Martínez has been invited to screen her documentary Keep Your Eyes On Guatemala for the Border Film Week Series organized by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego. The documentary will be screened on March 26 and Martínez will attend the screening and do Q/A.