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Fembot Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

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Fembot_Banner copyCome 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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NWWS “Fearless Journeys on the Edge: A Literary Conversation with Ariel Gore & Chris Scofield”

Ariel Gore is the editor & publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of eight books. Her most recent book, The End of Eve, chronicles her years spent caring for her dying mother and has been described as “Terms of Endearment meets Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?.” This memoir was awarded both the Rainbow Award 2014 for Best Lesbian Book and the 2014 New Mexico Arizona Book Award in the Gay/Lesbian (GLBT) category.

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“Rites vs. Rights: Female Genital Cutting in Sub-Saharan Africa,” a lecture by Angela Montague

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.

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NWWS: Saturday writers panel

The symposium includes panel discussions, writing workshops, a keynote talk, author conversations & readings, book signings, and discussion. Our theme is “Crossing Borders: Women’s Stories of Immigration, Migration, and Transition.” How have our migrations and moves contributed to or instigated our writings? What do we move away from, and what do we go toward? What are the historical, political, and personal currents that influence our transitions—from one country to another, from one state to another, from city to country, from mountains to sea, from one marriage or partnership to another, from one career to another, from one self-view to another?

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NWWS: Saturday afternoon workshops

5th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium

The symposium includes panel discussions, writing workshops, a keynote talk, author conversations & readings, book signings, and discussion. Our theme is “Crossing Borders: Women’s Stories of Immigration, Migration, and Transition.”

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Call for papers: open issue Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology

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)

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The Ancient and The Modern: Customary and Civil Marriage & Family Law in Gabon

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.

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Stacy Alaimo, “Acidification and Material Immersion: The Anthropocene at Sea”

Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus

A public talk by Stacy Alaimo

Stacy Alaimo is professor of English and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, Arlington. She is currently working on two books, Protest and Pleasure: The Strange Agencies of Bodies and Places, and Sea Creatures and the Limits of Animal Studies: Science, Aesthetics, Ethics.

Sponsored by the Department of English, Folklore Program, and the Center for the Study of Women in Society.

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NWWS documentary premiere “Sad Happiness: Cinthya’s Transborder Journey” with director Lynn Stephen

Directed by Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon (Anthropology and Ethnic Studies) and codirector of the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS). Produced by Sonia De La Cruz and Lynn Stephen.

Sad Happiness: Cinthya’s Transborder Journey explores the differential rights that U.S. citizen children and their undocumented parents have through the story of one extended Zapotec family. Shot in Oregon and Oaxaca, Mexico, and narrated by 11-year old Cinthya, the film follows Cinthya’s trip to her parent’s home community of Teotitlán del Valle with her godmother, anthropologist Lynn Stephen. There she meets her extended family and discovers her indigenous Zapotec and Mexican roots.

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“Imaginactivism”: Scholar Joan Haran to Spend Two Years at CSWS as the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow

December 9, 2015—December 1 marked the starting date of scholar Joan Haran’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship at the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon. Dr. Haran will be tracking attempts to adapt Starhawk’s novel The Fifth Sacred Thing as a transmedia phenomenon. First published in 1993 and now in the process of becoming a cable TV series or feature film, The Fifth Sacred Thing involves a clash between the best and the worst of our possible futures.

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