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CSWS: “Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives” JSMA Photo Exhibit

This special selection of photographs from the permanent collection is on view in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, a campus organization that creates, funds, and shares research that addresses the complicated nature of gender identities and inequalities. Curated by graduate students Sarah Turner with assistance from Regan Watjus, “Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives” presents images representing the diversity of the female experience.

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A Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin

On Friday, Nov. 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Erb Memorial Union (EMU), “A Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin” sets the stage for feminist speculations of future worlds. Le Guin started publishing science fiction and fantasy in the 1960s and has won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy awards, each more than once.

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How to Get Involved in Fembot

We'd like to invite you to participate in Fembot, an international network of feminist media scholars developed and managed here at the University of Oregon.

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How to Peer-Review Multimodal Content

The nature of peer review is changing, as authors experiment with new modes of knowledge production. On 17 January 2014, 1-3pm PST, the Fembot Collective will host a workshop that explores how we review and peer edit multimodal content.

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Supported by a CSWS Faculty Grant, a new journal article by Ellen McWhirter: Latina Adolescents’ Plans, Barriers, and Supports

Ellen Hawley McWhirter is the Ann Swindells Professor of Counseling Psychology; Director of Training, Counseling Psychology Program. The following article, published in 2013, is the result of a research project made possible by a grant from the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society. See also a related article in the Winter 2009 edition of CSWS Research Matters.

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University of Oregon Disability Studies Forum 2013

This informal lunch and roundtable features two distinguished guest speakers in the field of disability studies as well as presentations of research by UO faculty members and graduate students. Our goals for this event are to bring UO faculty and graduate student researchers into a discussion together about disability studies, to provide mentorship to graduate students working in the field, and to raise awareness of disability studies across the university.

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Laura Edwards—“Women, Law, and Culture:  Rethinking Legal Change in the Civil War Era”

This presentation is about the ways that ordinary people in the South, particularly African American women, contributed to the legal changes that we associate with the Reconstruction Amendments and top-down change. These groups had a much broader, expansive notion of “rights” and also of what the government should accomplish—and those ideas, in part, were based in expansive notions of local governance and in the culture of the South.

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Conference: “Alternative Sovereignties: Decolonization Through Indigenous Vision and Struggle”

The Alternative Sovereignties: Decolonization through Indigenous Vision and Struggle conference will be held May 8 – 10 at the Many Nations Longhouse and the EMU. The conference seeks to further academic discussions about American Indian and First Nations sovereignty in all of its manifestations, and position Native peoples at the center of those debates and to build intellectual and institutional relationships throughout the broader Pacific Northwest.

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Public Lecture by Libby Larsen, Composer

Libby Larsen

Collier House Living Room 1170 E. 13th Ave. UO campus

, composer and co-founder of American Composers Forum, will give a public lecture on her work and experience as one of America’s most performed living composers.

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