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“Athletes, Geeks, and Gamers: Exploring Gender and Professional E-sports”

"Drawing on my work in professional gaming, I will explore several major forms of masculinity produced in the professional e-sports scene; one centered around ratifying a notion of athletic masculinity and one entangled with constructions of “geekyness” that, at times, has an uneasy relationship to hegemonic masculinity." T.L. Taylor is an associate professor of  Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Phaedra Livingstone: CSWS Research Matters | Fall 2012

“Touchstones, Touchscreens and Timeless Tall Tales: A Feminist Analysis of Communication Practice in Exhibitions,” by Phaedra Livingstone, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Arts and Administration Program (AAD) School of Architecture & Allied Arts (A&AA) and Coordinator, Museum Studies

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Bob Bussel's OPB interview regarding 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in Oregon

Bob Bussel, associate professor of history and director of the Labor Education and Research Center at the University of Oregon, will discuss the history of the minimum wage on Oregon Public Broadcasting Radio (KOPB) on November 6, 2012. The segment, which is part of several OPB reports marking the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in Oregon, will air at 6:50 a.m. and 8:50 a.m.

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HASTAC Seminar: “Everyday Racism, Everyday Homophobia”

Please join CSWS as we live-stream HASTAC’s seminar “Everyday Racism, Everyday Homophobia” in the Collaboration Center in Knight Library (122). This important conversation between “some of the nation's most urgent thinkers on race theory and gender and sexuality studies,” Jack Halberstam, Marlon Ross, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Mark Anthony Neal, and Sharon P. Holland, will be hosted by HASTAC at Duke University and streamed live.

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The Invisible War: A documentary film about military sexual trauma

Veterans for Peace, Chapter 159 and Truth in Recruiting/Community Alliance of Lane County presents the film The Invisible War. Military sexual trauma has been the U.S. Military’s dirty little secret, carefully researched and thoughtfully presented in the film. Through veteran stories, exposure of high ranking military and Congressional inaction, this systemic epidemic, which protects perpetrators, is revealed.

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CSWS Affiliates Win Awards

The Center for the Study of Women in Society honors its faculty affiliates who are among those named as University of Oregon Award Winners 2011–12.

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Maggie Evans Receives a 2012 OHC Dissertation Fellowship

Meagan “Maggie” Evans, a PhD candidate in the UO Department of English, has been awarded a Fall 2012 Oregon Humanities Center (OHC) Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation “Sounding Silence: Twentieth-Century Feminist Poetic Innovation.”

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