Ms. Fembot Edit-a-Thon + Hack-a-Thon
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Nancy Tuana: “Coming to Understand Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance”
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.
Mary E. Wood, “Life Writing and Schizophrenia: Encounters at the Edge of Meaning”
Humanities Center Conference Rm (159 PLC)
1415 Kincaid St.
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.
A Dialogue about Surveys, Services, and Sanctions: Sexual Assault on Campus
UO Living Learning Center
Performance Hall
1455-75 E. 15th
Opening of “Recipe: The Kitchen and Laboratory in the West, 1400-2000”
Browsing Room
Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus
Asian American Voices: A Collins Literary Forum
Gish Jen
April 21 - 8:00pm
Public Reading
Knight Browsing Room
Maxine Hong Kingston May 5 - 8:00pm Public Reading Columbia 150
Bill Cheng May 12 - 8:00pm Public Reading Knight Browsing Room
Chang-Rae Lee May 15 - 8:00pm Public Reading Columbia 150
Faculty Workshop: “Researching Human Rights in Latin America: Challenges, Resources, and Strategies”
Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
Metolius Room
UO campus
Margaret Jacobs, “Remembering the Forgotten Child: the Indigenous Welfare Crisis of the 1960s-1970s”
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: “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.
Official and Other Truths: Memories of Dictatorship in the Wake of Brazil’s National Truth Commission
Gerlinger Hall Alumni Lounge 1468 University St.
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.
“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.
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.
“I have come to my garden”: Ancient Jewish Constructions of Space and Gender—by Deborah Green
Winter 2014, CSWS Research Matters: “I have come to my garden”: Ancient Jewish Constructions of Space and Gender—by Deborah Green, Greenberg Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, Department of Religious Studies; Director, Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies.
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.
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.
Brown Bag Discussion: “Feminist Approaches to Mandatory Reporting of Sexual Violence”
Jane Grant Room
330 Hendricks Hall
1408 University St.
Ruth Milkman — “Gender and Labor: Comparing the Great Depression and the Great Recession”
Professor Ruth MilkmanLiving Learning Center Room 101 Free & open to the public
A talk by Ruth Milkman, professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Conference: Academia//Activism: Reimagining Education Without Gender Discrimination
Calling undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff to engage in a collaborative conference to create interdisciplinary solutions to gender discrimination.
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.
Documentary by Gabriela Martínez to be shown during Border Film Week at the University of San Diego
Border Film Week - Events at the University of San Diego.
A Brief Review: CSWS 40th Anniversary Celebration
More than a thousand people attended the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, which took place November 7 - 9, 2013, at the Erb Memorial Union and featured two days of symposiums in addition to a documentary premiere and a keynote literary address. Held in collaboration with the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the ASUO Women’s Center, the celebration highlighted 40 years of research, teaching, creativity, and activism on the UO campus.
CSWS 40th Anniversary Featured in UO’s Student-Run Emerald Media
UO Center for Women in Society celebrates 40th anniversary and strive for equality | Emerald Media. Story by Natalie Maier.
“We’ve come a long way and we’ve got a long way to go,” Jenée Wilde, one of the main organizers of the 40th anniversary said. “What’s very revealing to me is that there are a lot of attitudes that we still need change in our country about women and about women’s ability to succeed. And how hard women have to work to prove that they are equal to men.”
“Agents of Change”—new CSWS documentary records a legacy of feminist research, teaching, and activism at the UO
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. By 1970, women faculty members across universities in the United States were beginning to teach the first women’s studies courses, while also taking on the fight for pay equity and affirmative action in hiring.
Reviews of Karen Joy Fowler’s “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”
Karen Joy Fowler’s ‘We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves’ - NYTimes.com.
CSWS Affiliate Alisa Freedman Interviewed
Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for December 2013 is now available on the Fembot website.
“Building Feminist Worlds” Recommended Book List
Molly Gloss / photo by Jack LiuBuilding Feminist Worlds—40th Anniversary Symposium panel recommended works: L. Timmel Duchamp, Molly Gloss, Andrea Hairston, Larissa Lai, Margaret McBride
Fall 2013 Research Matters: Eileen Otis on “Worlds of Work in Walmart, China”
Sociology professor Eileen Otis writes about how migrants from rural areas navigate China’s new urban class system in the latest issue of Research Matters, a publication of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society.
CSWS Names First Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow at the 40th Anniversary Celebration Keynote Event
Eugene, OR – Canadian scholar and editor Kathryn Allan has been selected as the first ever recipient of the Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. Sponsored equally by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, Robert D. Clark Honors College, and the UO Libraries Special Collections and University Archives, the award supports travel for the purpose of research on, and work with, the papers of feminist science fiction authors housed in the Knight Library.
5 Ways to Support Women’s Research and Creativity at CSWS
How to Help
To support the work of CSWS, call (541) 346-5015 or email csws@uoregon.edu. To send a check, mail to: Center for the Study of Women in Society, 1201 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1201
Now Out! The Fembot Collective Focuses on Feminist Science Fiction in Ada, Issue No. 3
November 5, 2013—The Fembot Collective is delighted to announce the third issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology! This issue, “Feminist Science Fiction,” is edited by special issue editor Alexis Lothian (Assistant Professor of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania).
Impact of Imagination on Society Award to Ursula K. Le Guin
Impact of Imagination on Society: Ursula K. Le Guin
The 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Impact of Imagination on Society was presented to Ursula K. Le Guin, author of science fiction and fantasy works for adults and children, on 22 October 2013 in Washington, D.C. Shelley Streeby, director, Clarion Writers’ Workshop at University of California, San Diego, made the presentation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wSBAQnRF_H8
“Feminist Futures” — 2013 CSWS Annual Review now available
If you are a CSWS faculty affiliate, research interest group member, supporter, contributor, or UO administrator, watch for the 2013 CSWS Annual Review in your mailbox.
Telling Stories Truly
Telling Stories Truly | eugeneweekly.com.
Ursula K. Le Guin to speak at CSWS anniversary
Documentary Premiere: “Agents of Change” at CSWS 40th Opening Celebration
At this 40th Anniversary kick-off event, guest speakers and a new documentary honor agents of change at the University of Oregon and their legacies of feminist research, teaching, and activism.
CSWS 40th Anniversary Promo Video
Produced by Pamela Cressall. Special thanks to OR Media, UO School of Journalism and Communication.