Goodman named a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study
Goodman named a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study | Around the O.
Bryna Goodman, professor, UO Department of History, is a CSWS faculty affiliate.
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Globalization & Alterity: CSWS’s newest Research Interest Group
February 18, 2015—Journalism graduate student Sarah T. Hamid and international studies graduate student Tariq L.
Breeze Harper’s Kale Smoothie Recipe for “Racial Tension Headaches in a ‘Post-Racial’ USA”
From the ASUO Women Center’s recent issue of The Siren, here’s a Kale Smoothie Recipe for “Racial Tension Headaches in a ‘Post-Racial’ USA” from Dr. Amie “Breeze” Harper, who will be delivering a lecture, participating in a panel discussion, and leading a workshop at the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium, which runs May 7 - 9, 2015.
Jessaca Leinaweaver: “Collaborative Research on Children, Caregiving, and Migration in Peru”
Graduate Student Lounge
Susan Campbell Hall
1431 Johnson Lane
Laura Fair: “It Takes More Than Profits to Make a Man: Historical Understandings of Success Amongst Tanzanian Entrepreneurs”
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St.
Talk Title: “It Takes More Than Profits to Make a Man: Historical Understandings of Success Amongst Tanzanian Entrepreneurs”
“Hip Checks and a Garish Pink Box: Queer Experiments in Looking and Writing,” a CSWS Noon Talk with Erica Rand
Jane Grant Conference Room
330 Hendricks Hall
UO campus
printable flyer PDF
Dr. Breeze Harper to talk about “Scars of Suffering and Healing: A Black Feminist Vegan Perspective on Writing, Race, and Neoliberal Whiteness”
Breeze HarperUO campus Gerlinger Alumni Lounge 1468 University St.
UO Today #595 guest: Michael Hames-García
Watch this videotaped interview with the director of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS). Michael Hames-García, professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies, talks about his role as the first male director of CSWS.
NWWS: 2015 Northwest Women Writers Symposium, Saturday Panel & Workshops
Eugene Public Library
100 W. 10th St. (10th and Olive)
Eugene, OR
NWWS: A reading and talk by bestselling “Farm City” author Novella Carpenter
Novella CarpenterEugene Public Library 100 W. 10th St. (10th and Olive) Eugene, OR
NWWS: Reading & talk with writer Diana Abu-Jaber
Diana Abu-Jaber / photo by Scott EasonEugene Public Library 100 W. 10th St. Eugene, OR 97401
NWWS: A conversation with bestselling “Farm City” author Novella Carpenter
Novella CarpenterUO Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St.
NWWS: The Language of Baklava, a panel discussion with and about Diana Abu-Jaber
UO Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
Diana Abu-Jaber At Large | Jefferson Public Radio
“We're still trying to figure out what Diana Abu-Jaber does NOT do; she's good at so many things. Novelist, cookbook author, teacher, speaker... and there...”You can listen to this May 6 interview with Diana Abu-Jaber at: http://ijpr.org/post/diana-abu-jaber-large / Source: Diana Abu-Jaber At Large | Jefferson Public Radio
Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, Issue 6, Hacking the Black/White Binary
January 5, 2015—The Fembot Collective released the latest edition of its online open-access, peer-reviewed journal.
Cuban science fiction scholar Yasmín S. Portales Machado to speak at CSWS
Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall 1408 University St. printable flyer PDF
“To Gain Title to Our Bodies: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance in the Civil Rights Era,” a lecture by Danielle McGuire
375 McKenzie Hall
1101 Kincaid St.
UO campus
Free public lecture
“Internal or Transnational? Zapotec Women’s Migration Dilemmas,” a CSWS Noon Talk with Iván Sandoval Cervantes
photo by Iván Sandoval Cervantes
Science envoy Richmond now in Southeast Asia on official visit
January 7, 2015—Science envoy Richmond now in Southeast Asia on official visit | Around the O.
Geri Richmond is making stops in Thailand and Vietnam this month in her first official trip as a U.S. science envoy.
Film Showing: “The Supreme Price”
Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
Free & open to the public
STAnDD is CSWS’s Newest Research Interest Group
December 1, 2014—Architecture graduate students Roxy Robles and Nicolette Stauffer are the coordinators of a new research interest group (RIG) at the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society.
Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles—a new book by Alaí Reyes-Santos
The research for this new book by Alaí Reyes-Santos, assistant professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, was supported in part by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant.
Fembot’s November 2014 BAD Interview: Asian American Women’s Popular Literature
November 15, 2014—Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for November 2014 is now uploaded on the Fembot website.
Twenty Students Per Week: The Report of the University Senate Task Force to Address Sexual Violence and Survivor Support
November 6, 2014—The University of Oregon Senate task force charged with studying sexual assault prevention methods at UO has
Meeting Regulations for Human Subjects Research
Jane Grant Room Hendricks Hall 330 1408 University St. Flyer PDF
Panel linked to CSWS-funded survey proposes UO sexual violence office
October 23, 2014
Eugene, OR—A task force charged with studying sexual assault prevention methods at the University of Oregon recommended the creation of a single office on campus for sexual and gender violence. This was among 23 recommendations presented on October 22 to the University of Oregon Senate by the task force co-chairwoman, Carol Stabile, former director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society and a professor in the UO School of Journalism and Communication and Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.
Three CSWS affiliates receive UO Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards
Three CSWS faculty affiliates have been named recipients of the University of Oregon Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards for AY 2014-15. They are among 13 UO faculty members chosen for this award.
Fembot BAD Interview: Gendering the Recession
Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for October 2014 is now uploaded on the Fembot website.
Lorwin Lecture: James Braxton Peterson examines the triumphs and challenges of the Black Lives Matter movement
EMU Ballroom UO campus 1222 E. 13th Ave.
The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education, a new book coedited by Ernesto Martínez
The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education
coedited by Stephanie Fryberg and Ernesto Javier Martínez (Palgrave MacMillan, October 2014, 320 pp)
Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women’s Rights in Pakistan — a new book by Anita Weiss
Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women’s Rights in Pakistan (Palgrave Macmillan, October 2014) is the latest book by Anita M.