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CSWS Research Matters Spring 2014: Erin Beck
Spring 2014 CSWS Research Matters:
“In Guatemala: Everyday Practices and Experiences of Development through Women’s Eyes,” by Erin Beck, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon Department of Political Science
Running from Peril, Chasing Hope: Central American Children and the Refugee Crisis
Michael Hames-García Edits Spring 2014 Aztlán Spotlight Dossier on Jotería Studies
Incoming CSWS director Michael Hames-García (professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies) edited a special “Dossier” section on jotería studies for the journal Aztlán (Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring 2014).
Native Studies Research Colloquium — Lynn Stephen
Many Nations Longhouse 1630 Columbia St. UO campus Free & open to the public (Bring Your Own Lunch)
Schools of Shame Map (SOS-Map) | Fembot Collective
Now available: “Salmon Is Everything: Community-Based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed,” by Theresa May
Inaugural Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow Visits UO Campus
Canadian scholar Kathryn Allan traveled to Eugene in late May to carry out her research project, “Locating Dis/Ability in Utopian Feminist Science Fiction.” Chosen as the inaugural Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction fellow, Allan spent 10 days in the University of Oregon Special Collections and University Archives at Knight Library. Read more about her research plans on her blog.
Marie A. Vitulli named 2014 AWM-MAA Falconer Lecturer
University of Oregon professor emerita of mathematics and CSWS faculty affiliate will deliver the 2014 AWM-MAA Falconer Lecture at MathFest 2014 during August 6 – 9 in Portland, OR.
Author of “Lifestyle Politics and Radical Activism” Interviewed
Jennifer Freyd takes part in White House announcement
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.” Read more at: Jennifer Freyd takes part in White House announcement | Around the O.
Mia McKenzie: Lyllye B. Parker Women of Color Speaker Series
Johanna Crane: Who is Global Health For? Tenacious Assumptions in Global Health Science
CSWS Noon Talk: Jenée Wilde, “Bridging Humanities and Social Science Methods in PhD Research”
UO study: Abusive relationships damage girls’ educational pursuits
UO study: Abusive relationships damage girls' educational pursuits | Around the O.
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
Published on Apr 1, 2014
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.
Karma R. Chávez Interview Featured in Fembot’s “Books Aren’t Dead”
Feminist Museum Blog
http://thefeministmuseum.wordpress.com/
CSWS helped support the Feminist Museum’s first pop-up exhibition, on display at LaVerne Krause Gallery in early March 2014.
Now in print: “Gender, Sex, Love in Poetic Dialogues of the Early Twentieth Century” by Dorothee Ostmeier
A CSWS-supported book project by Dorothee Ostmeier, University of Oregon professor of German and Folklore, is now
Road Scholars: Documentary Filmmaker Gabriela Martínez to present “Agents of Change”
Jafari Sinclaire Allen: “Black/Queer Here & There: Ethnography of An Idea”
Ms. Fembot Edit-a-Thon + Hack-a-Thon
Fembot is a CSWS Special Project.
Join Us! For the Ms. Fembot Edit-a-Thon + Hack-a-Thon Friday, March 6, 2015 and Saturday, March 7, 2015
















