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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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“Botanical Interventions: Rebuilding Landscapes, Reshaping Communities” — Oliver Kellhammer & Jennifer Burns Levin

A Fireside Conversation with Oliver Kellhammer, a permaculture artist, writer, and teacher specializing in ecological restoration and land art, and Jennifer Burns Levin, who teaches literature in the UO Clark Honors College. The two will talk about Kellhammer's interest in the shifting power relationships within public urban spaces and his own work on "botanical interventions," land art that facilitates the healing processes of damaged landscapes and creates opportunities for more productive, mutually beneficial relationships between people and the environment.

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2014 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “Family, Animal, Story”

Our keynote writer is 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award-winner and New York Times–bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler, whose novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves has opened up new ways of talking about family dynamics and the ethics of animal research. Saturday’s panels and workshops will meet at Eugene Downtown Public Library. All events are free and open to the public. 

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NWWS Reading: 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award winner Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler —the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award winner for fiction—will read from her work at Eugene Downtown Public Library, which will be open for the first Friday Art Walk. This event is free & open to the public. Fowler’s recent novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, has opened up new ways of talking about family dynamics and the ethics of animal research.

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2013-14 Lorwin Lecture

Lawyer Wendy Murphy, JD, delivers the 2014 Lorwin Lecture on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This keynote lecture focuses on “civil rights violence” and the overt and covert subjugation of violence against women as something other than a civil rights harm. Wendy Murphy specializes in the representation of crime victims, women and children. Her book, And Justice For Some: An Exposé of the Lawyers and Judges Who Let Dangerous Criminals Go Free, was published in 2007.

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Writing Women into Wikipedia

Fembot, in collaboration with the ASUO Women’s Center, the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the School of Journalism and Communication and the UO Libraries is hosting events in Eugene, Oregon and online to write women into Wikipedia.

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Carol Stabile Receives 2013 Farrar Award in Media & Civil Rights History

Stabile-CarolCarol Stabile—director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon, and professor, School of Journalism and Communication and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies—has received the 2013 Farrar Media and Civil Rights History Award for her article “The Typhoid Marys of the Left; Gender, Race and the Broadcast Blackl

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”Women Working in Media“ Workshop

On FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2014, students at the University of Oregon will have the opportunity to attend a half-day workshop featuring a range of women sharing their experiences working in media industries. Registration is available online at: HTTP://GUESTLI.ST/225993 [1]. All workshops are free and breakfast and lunch will be provided.

The event, “WOMEN WORKING IN MEDIA,” sponsored by the School of Journalism & Communication and the ASUO Women’s Center, will be held at the Ford Alumni Center and the Bijou Metro Cinema.

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Racial Representations: African American Literature Since 1975

A group of innovative scholars who specialize in African American literature will gather at the University of Oregon to give talks about their research on April 26, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. This free symposium is open to the public and will take place in the Alumni Lounge of Gerlinger Hall, 1468 University Street. This symposium will include a morning panel moderated by Mark Whalan (U Oregon) and an afternoon panel moderated by Ernesto Martínez (U Oregon). The day will conclude with readings of poetry and creative nonfiction from accomplished authors Evie Shockley and David Bradley.

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