Asali Solomon: a reading with the author of Disgruntled
Chapman Hall Room 301 990 E. 13th Ave. UO campus
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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
Eugene, OR—adrienne maree brown, an independent science fiction scholar and a social justice activist, has been chosen as the 2015-16 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow. Brown lives in Detroit, Michigan, and is the coeditor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, published last March by AK Press, San Francisco.
“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/
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).
Q&A with Carol Stabile, interim director of CSWS - Research and Innovation News
From the UO Office of the Vice President of Research & Innovation, an interview with Carol Stabile in the enewsletter Research and Innovation News.Source: Q&A with Carol Stabile, interim director of CSWS - Research and InnovationCarol Stabile, professor of journalism and communication, was recently appointed interim director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society.
James Braxton Peterson’s lecture “A Song, A Slogan, and A Service: Dispatches from the Movement for Black Lives” | UO Media Channel
Source: James Braxton Peterson’s lecture “A Song, A Slogan, and A Service: Dispatches from the Movement for Black Lives” | University of Oregon Media Channel
Marjorie Woollacott, “Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind,” book event
1st location: Knight Library, Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St., UO campus 2nd location: White Stag Building, Portland
New survey on sexual climate suggests more awareness of services is needed
Source: New survey on sexual climate suggests more awareness of services is needed | Around the O
August 21, 2015—A new survey on sexual victimization issues at the University of Oregon reaffirms previous findings that there is a need to increase awareness about available services, while decreasing negative perceptions of institutional support.
Highlighting the 2014-15 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellows
When Andrew Ferguson came to campus to explore UO’s superb collection of feminist science fiction, he wasn’t expecting to uncover the original manuscript of Ursula Le Guin’s Tehanu hidden away in the archives. Although archival materials for Tehanu were what he came looking for, finding and identifying the original manuscript came as a happy surprise.
LANDLINES: A public performance by poet Ana-Maurine Lara
Ana-Maurine LaraEugene, OR—On Saturday August 22 and Sunday August 23, 2015, Ana-Maurine Lara, winner of the Oregon Arts Commission Joan Shipley Award, will perform LANDLINES, a public event exploring the ideas home an
Audra Simpson, “We are Not Red Indians”: The Gender of Anticolonial Sovereignty Across the Borders of Time, Place and Sentiment
Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
UO Campus
Salmon Is Everything: Chosen as Book of the Year by Humboldt State University
Humboldt State University has chosen UO theatre professor ’s 2014 book Salmon Is Everything (OSU Press) as its 2015 / 2016 Book of the Year.
Spiderwoman Theater: Bringing Light to Native American and Women's Issues | KLCC
Muriel Miguel is director and co-founder of Spiderwoman Theater Company, the oldest Native women’s theater ensemble in North America. She speaks with Eric Alan about using theater and storytelling to shed light on issues such as violence against women, and gay and lesbian relationships in Native nations. She was in residence at the UO from May 10-16, 2015.
Science article features Geri Richmond's efforts to remove career barriers | Around the O
Editor's Note: Professor Geraldine Richmond is a CSWS faculty affiliate.
Source: Science article features Geri Richmond's efforts to remove career barriers | Around the O
Graduate Student Coffee Hour
Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall
Join us for conversation, coffee, pizza, and other good food.
High-level administrative positions at other universities await two long-time CSWS affiliates
Barbara AltmannTwo long-time CSWS affiliates will be leaving the University of Oregon at the end of AY 2014-15 for high-level administrative positions at other universities.
Ellen Herman named new Faculty Codirector of the Wayne Morse Center
Editor’s Note: Professor is a long-time CSWS faculty affiliate.
