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“Same-Sex Intimacies in an Early Modern African Text about an Ethiopian Female Saint, ‘Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros’ (1672)”

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.

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CSWS Director Carol A. Stabile Receives 2014 ACLS Fellowship

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.”

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Jenee Wilde.

Jenée Wilde Awarded CSWS Fellowship for Research on Science Fiction and Bisexuality

Jenée Wilde, a PhD candidate in English and Folklore, has received the 2014-15 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship for her interdisciplinary research project on bisexual representation, science fiction, and the overlaps among bisexual and fan communities.

Awarded by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the Jane Grant Fellowship includes a $12,000 stipend, tuition remission and insurance for the 2014-15 academic year.

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Mia McKenzie: Lyllye B. Parker Women of Color Speaker Series

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.

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Carol Stabile and Gabriela Martinez.

Forty Years of Feminism

Forty Years of Feminism | giving.uoregon.edu.

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.”

“The UO’s Center for the Study of Women in Society got its start with a gift on behalf of early feminist Jane Grant— a gift that, at the time, was the largest the university had ever received from a single donor.”

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Give a Laptop, Change the World: The Story of the OLPC in Ghana

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.

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Karma R. Chávez Interview Featured in Fembot’s “Books Aren’t Dead”

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).

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Feminist Museum Blog

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.

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Agents of Change CSWS Road Scholars Poster

Road Scholars: Documentary Filmmaker Gabriela Martínez to present “Agents of Change”

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.

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“Don’t Shout Too Loud” screening for grad students

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.

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Exhibit & reception for Reconoci.do: Dominicans of Haitian Descent

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.

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Anjali Arondekar—“Telling Tales: Sexuality's Fictions”

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.

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A Dialogue about Surveys, Services, and Sanctions: Sexual Assault on Campus

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.

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Michael Messner: “Male Allies, and the Politics of Feminist Accountability”

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.

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Reading and book signing with acclaimed Canadian writer Louise Dupré

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. A major figure in contemporary Quebec literature, Dupré is the author of Plus haut que les flammes, a volume of poetry written after her visit to the sites of former concentration camps in Europe, and L'Album multicolore, a poetic memoir published in 2014. 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.

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“Habits of Leaking: Of Sluts and Network Cards,” a seminar with Wayne Morse Chair Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

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.

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Ileana Rodríguez-Silva: “Gender and Class in the Silencing of Race in Puerto Rico”

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.

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Shannon Elizabeth Bell Interviewed for Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead Podcast

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).

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Screening of the CSWS Documentary “Agents of Change”

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.

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Brown Bag Discussion: “Feminist Approaches to Mandatory Reporting of Sexual Violence”

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.”

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Ruth Milkman — “Gender and Labor: Comparing the Great Depression and the Great Recession”

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.

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CSWS Noon Talk: Megan Burke, “Heterosexuality, Sexual Violence and the Temporality of Femininity”

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.

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