“Latinas and Citizenship in Oregon”: an essay by Marcela Mendoza
“Latinas and Citizenship in Oregon”
Author(s): Marcela Mendoza
Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 113, No. 3 (Fall 2012), pp. 444-451
Published by: Oregon Historical Society
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CSWS Noon Talk: Karyn Lewis on Women in STEM
“When Hard Work Doesn’t Pay Off: Exploring Self-Perceptions to Understand the Underrepresentation of Women in STEM.” Karyn Lewis is a Ph.D. candidate in the UO Department of Psychology. She received a 2010 CSWS graduate student research grant for her work on this research.
Fembot Jam Session 1: An Unconference on Feminist Multimodal Publishing and Collaboration
Slightly over a year after Fembot launched its first feature, Laundry Day, members of the collective will meet in Portland, Oregon, for a two-day Unconference to discuss Fembot’s past, present, and future. The Unconference is free and open to all members of the Fembot collective.
Karma Chávez — “Queer Fields, Queer Methods: Advancing an Activist Research Methodology”
Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus
Romani (Gypsy) Women and Activism: Challenges and Opportunities
“Do not sterilize our women” (Czech Republic, 2008).204 Condon 1321 Kincaid UO campus
CSWS-funded project takes a close look at traditional Western discourse surrounding female genital cutting
Courtney Smith received a CSWS Graduate Student Research Grant in 2005, and the Jane Grant Dissertation Writing Grant in 2007. “CSWS funding enabled me to conduct over six months of field research in Senegal, West Africa,” she said. “Because of the financial support provided by CSWS, I was able to spend this relatively long duration in Senegal, and to carry out over 90 interviews with women and men throughout the small country. CSWS also supported me in the dissertation writing phase, which was absolutely instrumental in finishing my Ph.D.”
Lauren Kessler: Watching My Daughter Drive
“My daughter drives.
“Are there three scarier, more exciting words in the English language?”
Book Talk — Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda
111 Alder Building
818 E. 15th Ave.
Celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month by Writing Women into Wikipedia!
Sarah Stierch Will Lead Free Workshop March 8 (Matthew Roth, Wikimedia Foundation)Celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month by teaching and encouraging our community members to become Wikipedians and by adding women to Wikipedia’s content.
The New Cult of Motherhood: From Rosemary’s Baby to Twilight Breaking Dawn
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Jacqua Academic Center Auditorium 1615 E. 13th Ave.
A Talk by Kelly Oliver, W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Study of Women in Society.
“Conjugal Chains” — Michelle McKinley — Works-in-Progress Talk
Knight Law School
Faculty Lounge
UO campus
Discussion of Michelle McKinley's work-in-progress. McKinley is an associate professor of law, UO School of Law, and a member of the CSWS Advisory Board.
Fembot Launches Books Aren’t Dead, a New Monthly Podcast Interview
December 3, 2012—The Fembot Collective today launched its new monthly podcast interview, Books Aren’t Dead (BAD). BAD is Fembot’s series of monthly interviews with feminist authors of recent books on media, science, and technology.
“Bachelors, Boxing, and Boy-ology: American Catholicism in the ‘City of Men’, 1880-1930”
375 McKenzie
1101 Kincaid St.
UO campus
“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.
“The Pleasure Principle: A Post-Hip Hop Search for a Black Feminist Politics of Power”—Joan Morgan
Collier House
Free Admission
UO campus
CSWS Noon Talk, Kate Mondloch — Mind Over Matter: Mariko Mori and the Neuroscientific Turn
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330 Hendricks Hall Jane Grant Conference Room 1408 University St., UO campus Free & open to the public
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
Fembot Collective Launches Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology
The Fembot Collective launched its long anticipated online publication Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology in early November.
Michelle McKinley’s work wins NSF grant
Law professor McKinley’s work on enslaved groups wins NSF grant | Inside Oregon
Michelle McKinley is a CSWS faculty affiliate and member of the CSWS advisory board.
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.
Two CSWS Faculty Affiliates Named Fulbright Scholars
Five University of Oregon faculty members named Fulbright Scholars | Communications
Two CSWS faculty affiliates are among five members of the UO faculty recently named as Fulbright Scholars for 2012-13. They are:
Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century—coedited by Daniel HoSang
Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Daniel Martinez HoSang, Oneka LaBennett, and Laura Pulido (University of California Press, 2012)
Theresa May Featured in Oregon Quarterly—Autumn 2012
Oregon Quarterly Magazine - Autumn 2012.
“Watershed Moment," by Bonnie Henderson takes a look at the Klamath River Basin and highlights CSWS faculty affiliate Theresa May’s play “Salmon Is Everything.”
Theresa May is assistant professor, UO Department of Theatre Arts.
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.
Brenda Frink—“Pioneer Mother: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Public Monuments in the U.S. West”
Dr. Brenda Frink, Research Associate, The Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, will lecture on “Pioneer Mother: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Public Monuments in the U.S. West.” The Pioneer Mother monument has been part of the UO campus since 1932.
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.
CSWS Faculty Affiliate Lamia Karim Co-Chairs SAR Seminar
School for Advanced Research (SAR)—Microfinance.
Microfinance: Assessing the Economic and Cultural Implications of Microfinance on Poverty from Cross-Cultural Perspectives
CSWS Director Carol Stabile on “open access” in Campus Technology digital magazine
August 28, 2012—Rewriting the Journal: With faculty balking at the high price of traditional academic journals, can other digital publishing options get traction?
CSWS Grant Winner Awarded Fulbright Scholarship
August 22, 2012—Brian Guy is one of seven University of Oregon students awarded a Fulbright scholarship for study abroad. A recipient of a 2012 CSWS Graduate Student Research Grant, Guy is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science. His research focuses on “ Code Violations: Men, Gender Inequality, and the Contentious Politics of Senegal’s Family Code.”
2012 CSWS NW Women Writers Symposium: MemoirFest Audio Recordings
Audio recordings now available for the 2012 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium: MemoirFest, held Saturday, May 12, 2012 on the University of Oregon campus.
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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Two CSWS Faculty Affiliates Win Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards
The Center for the Study of Women in Society honors two faculty affiliates who are among thirteen outstanding faculty receiving University of Oregon Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards AY 2012–13.
CSWS Office Manager & Events Coordinator Shirley Marc to Retire
Shirley MarcRetirement Party for 330 Hendricks Hall