NWWS: Saturday afternoon readings & talks
Full Schedule: http://csws.uoregon.edu/events-2/2014-nwws/2016-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium/
5th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium
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Irma Velásquez, “Activism and Social Change in Postwar Guatemala”
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 wins two 2016 Oregon Book Awards
Lidia Yuknavitch at the 2012 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium / photo by Robert Hill Long.
Combining Activism and Research: Synergies and Obstacles
Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Poster PDF
Panel: Combining Activism and Research: Synergies and Obstacles
Presentations by:
Four CSWS faculty affiliates among UO’s 2016 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Award winners
Gabriela MartinezSee story in Around the O
Lamia Karim’s book Microfinance and Its Discontents published in a Korean edition
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).
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)
Highest honor: Geri Richmond to receive Medal of Science
Geri RichmondEditor’s Note: is a CSWS Faculty Affiliate.
2016 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium (NWWS)
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
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.
Viet Thanh Nguyen: 2016 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in conversation with David Leiwei Li
Straub 156
1451 Onyx St.
University of Oregon
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.
Dr. Lamia Karim will present keynote at upcoming conference at Santa Clara University
Dr. Lamia Karim will deliver the keynote address at the 43rd Annual Western Departments of Sociology and Anthropology Undergraduate Research Conference. The conference will take place on Saturday, April 23, 2016 at Santa Clara University.
Latina Feminists of the Latina/o Theatre Commons
Hope Theatre 1109 Old Campus Lane University of Oregon campus FREE! Refreshments at 4:30pm https://blogs.uoregon.edu/feministlatinas/
NWWS documentary premiere “Sad Happiness: Cinthya’s Transborder Journey” with director Lynn Stephen
Browsing Room
Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.
Eugene, OR 97403
UO campus
Elizabeth Armstrong, “Sex, Alcohol, & Violence: How Status Competition Creates Risk”
Ford Alumni Center
Giustina Ballroom
1720 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus
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Yeti Campus Stories & Sexism in the Digital College Party Scene
Allen Hall 141
1020 University St.
UO campus
SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH
Yeti Campus Stories & Sexism in the Digital College Party Scene
Tanisha Ford “The Politics of Style: Black Women, Social Movements, and Global Fashion Economies”
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St.
Documentary Screening: Keep Your Eyes on Guatemala, with filmmaker Gabriela Martínez
Straub 156
1451 Onyx St.
UO campus
Documentary Screening: Keep Your Eyes on Guatemala, produced and directed by Gabriela Martínez Escobar
“Love, Money, and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS,” a lecture by Sanyu Mojola
Sanyu MojolaKnight Library Studio A 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus
“Death Beyond Disavowal: Women of Color Feminism, Neoliberalism, and the Impossible Politics of Difference”
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus
Grace Hyungwon Hong, Associate Professor of Women’s and Asian American Studies at UCLA
“Death Beyond Disavowal: Women of Color Feminism, Neoliberalism, and the Impossible Politics of Difference”
Sexual violence prevention, guest lecture with David Lisak
The UO Organization Against Sexual Assault (UO OASA) is bringing renowned sexual violence researcher and prevention advocate to the University of Oregon on May 26.
Public Screening of film “Sista in the Brotherhood,” with Q&A discussion afterward by director and producer
Lawrence 177
UO campus
free & open to the public
Asali Solomon: a reading with the author of Disgruntled
Chapman Hall Room 301 990 E. 13th Ave. UO campus
Working Futures: Perspectives on Labor from the Global South
Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus
Los amarres de la lengua: política, exilios y contiendas del idioma en Puerto Rico (1942-2016)
Pacific Hall, Rm 30 1025 University St. UO campus
, assistant professor of Spanish at SUNY Stony Brook, will lecture on the topic “Los amarres de la lengua: política, exilios y contiendas del idioma en Puerto Rico (1942-2016)” at Pacific Hall, Rm 30, on May 12 at 4 p.m.
“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.
Missa Aloisi: “Architecture Without Ego”
Eugene Location:
Monday, February 8, 2016
5:30 p.m.
206 Lawrence Hall
1190 Franklin Boulevard
Portland Location: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 5:00 p.m. White Stag Block 70 NW Couch Street, Rm 150
adrienne maree brown chosen as 2015-16 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow
adrienne maree brown, 2015-16 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction FellowDecember 4, 2015
“Hollywood, the Sexual Violence Factory,” by Carol Stabile and Jeremiah Favara
Ms. Magazine Blog, November 23, 2015—“Hollywood, the Sexual Violence Factory,” by Carol Stabile and Jeremiah Favara
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2015/11/23/hollywood-the-sexual-violence-factory/
“G-Men Masculinity: The FBI’s War on Broadcasting,” a CSWS Noon Talk with Carol Stabile
VENUE CHANGE: Knight Library Collaboration Center, Room 122 1501 Kincaid St., UO campus
Reading with Lauren Kessler: Raising the Barre
Global Scholars Great Hall
1710 E. 15th Ave.
UO campus
Two Chosen as Graduate Interns for Fembot
November 10, 2015—The Fembot Collective has selected two University of Oregon graduate students as graduate interns to help work on Fembot projects, with special project funding awarded by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS).