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A symposium celebrating the centennial of women’s suffrage is scheduled for Thursday, October 25, from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Knight Library’s Browsing Room on the UO campus with Keynote speaker Lauren Kessler, Professor, UO School of Journalism and Communication.

The Queer RIG Roundtable Series presents “Queer Experiments in Pedagogy” with guest speakers, Chicora Martin, Assistant Dean of Students and Director, LGBT Education and UO Support Services, Mary Wood, Associate Professor, UO Department of English, and Drew Beard, Postdoctoral Instructor, UO Department of English.

This presentation explores the term “squaw” as an element of discourse that frames a version of indigenous female-ness. Speaker Debra Merskin, associate professor, UO School of Journalism and Communication, is developing a theoretical perspective of representational ethics for media and popular culture that examines the question of who has the right to represent others, under what circumstances, and in what ways.

Join us for the University of Oregon School of Law Symposium, "War and Memory", with Keynote speaker Arturo Arias, University of Texas, Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Former Vermont governor and U.S. ambassador to Switzerland Madeleine Kunin will give a free public talk entitled “Finding a Work/Life Balance: How Can It Be Sustained?”

Lamia Karim, Anthropology and Associate Director of CSWS, discusses her forthcoming book Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh, the first feminist critique of the much-lauded microcredit process in Bangladesh. She describes the adverse effects of the microcredit system.

Congratulations to Jennifer Freyd, recent winner of the 2011 Outstanding Contributions to Science in Trauma Psychology Award given by the American Psychological Associations' Division 56.

July 12, 2011—University of Oregon associate professor Lynn Fujiwara was named chair elect of the Section on Asia and Asian America for the American Sociological Association. Co-coordinator of the Women of Color Project at the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society, Fujiwara is an associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Ethnic Studies Department, where she is also department head.

A book about poor families and welfare written by three feminist scholars—an anthropologist and two sociologists—is a finalist for the prestigious C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform was written by Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt and published by Cornell University Press in December 2010.

June 2011—Kathleen M. Ryan, Ph.D., received a CSWS graduate student research grant in 2007 while working on her doctorate in the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. Her project, “When Flags Flew High: Propaganda, Memory and Oral History for World War II Female Veterans,” was an oral history on the WAVES of World War II.

“Food in the Field” is a new CSWS interdisciplinary research interest group (RIG) that investigates ideas in the field of food studies, the operations of cultural fields related to food consumption, and the gendered labor that takes place in the farm fields of food production.

The Center for the Study of Women in Society honors 2010 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship awardee Ingrid Nelson, geography, who in 2010-11 received these additional awards: Fulbright Fellowship, Fulbright Commission; Society of Woman Geographers Evelyn L. Pruitt National Fellowship for Dissertation Research.

Leslie Steeves, Professor, UO School of Journalism and Communication, will talk about her research and show a clip from her documentary-in-progress.

Gordon Bettles, steward of the UO’s Many Nations Longhouse and member of the Klamath tribe, appears with Theresa May, Theatre Arts and codeveloper of the play “Salmon is Everything.” They talk about the importance of salmon to Native culture and the devastating fish kill on the Klamath River in 2002. The play, staged by the UO’s University Theatre May 20-June 4, addresses the cultural and spiritual dimensions of Klamath River water rights.

Professor Thorsson will be discussing her work in progress, “Revolutionary Recipes: Foodways and African American Literature.” “Revolutionary Recipes” argues that a group of African American poems, novels, and cookbooks construct race, gender, and class through culinary discourse. Thorsson's talk will draw from “Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes,” the initial chapter of this project in which she seeks to establish a scholarly understanding of foodways through the writings of Vertamae Grosvenor, author of the 1970 cookbook Vibration Cooking: Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl.

A free public lecture by Professor Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania. Professor Loomba researches and teaches early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and contemporary Indian literature and culture.

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Sheryl WuDunn coauthored the influential bookHalf the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.

A Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies (CLLAS) Grantee Presentation by Alejandra García Diaz Villamil (PPPM). How have communal banks in Bolivia impacted the empowerment of women entrepreneurs, particularly in terms of decision-making, leadership, participation in community associations, and self-esteem?

You're invited to MemoirFest, an all-day symposium on women writers and memoir. MemoirFest will feature presentations and panel discussions by Debra Gwartney, Crystal Williams, Lidia Yuknavitch, Lauren Kessler, Margarita Donnelly, Elizabeth Reis, and Dominick Vetri. Registered participants are invited to take part in roundtable discussions with the panelists on all aspects of memoir.

Join us for Roundtable: Dangerous Dependencies: Domestic Slavery and Servitude in the Americas. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, Department of English, Department of Ethnic Studies, the Oregon Humanities Center, the Americas in a Globalized World Initiative, the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, and the UO School of Law.

Sheryl WuDunn, the first Asian-American reporter to win a Pulitzer Prize, is a best-selling author, business executive and lecturer. Currently, she is a senior managing director at Mid-Market Securities, an investment banking boutique serving growth companies in the middle market, including companies founded and run by women. She is also president of TripleEdge, a social investing consultancy. WuDunn is co-author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a New York Times best-selling book about the challenges facing women around the globe.

Salmon Is Everything was developed from interviews and personal stories and insights of Karuk, Hupa and Yurok people who were directly affected by the 2002 fish kill on the . The script was developed by Theresa May, UO assistant professor of theatre arts, in collaboration with members of the Karuk, Hupa and Yurok communities. The play will be presented in University of Oregon’s Robinson Theatre May 20-June 4, 2011.

Professor Thorsson, UO Department of English, will discuss her forthcoming book Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels. Women’s Work argues that late twentieth-century novels by Toni Cade Bambara, Ntozake Shange, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, and Toni Morrison reclaim and revise cultural nationalism.

Jennifer Burns Levin teaches literature at the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, where she leads an interdisciplinary faculty research interest group in food studies through the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society. She is editing a book-length manuscript, Lower Discipline: The Many Masochisms of Modernism, and researching a new project on modernist hunger and gastronomic practices.

A panel discussion about environmental justice in Eugene and Lane County. Hosted by Beyond Toxics and CAER (Coalition Against Environmental Racism).

Whatever Happened to Zulay? An Otavaleña’s Journey is the story of a remarkable Ecuadoran woman who went through several life changes and maintained some continuity in her life, a continuity that made her successful in a new world, and surprisingly, at the same time remain attached to her own traditional one. A film that will appeal to everyone interested in cultural change, gender studies, folklore, ethnicity, Latin American communities, indigeneity, weaving, filmmakers, anthropology, textiles, oral history, folk architecture, and religion. A UO professor of Folklore and English, Sharon Sherman appears along with Zulay in this new documentary, as they both make changes and talk about the project.

“Re-enacting Race, Re-enacting Gender: Crossdressing & Embodied Memories of Terror”, a talk by Dr. Mark Auslander Professor of Anthropology & Museum Studies, Central Washington University.

Designed for graduate students or other scholars new to human subjects research, this panel will examine the philosophical and practical dimensions of human subjects protocols and the IRB (Institutional Review Board) process. As two feminist scholars engaged in U.S.-based and international fieldwork, professors Lisa Gilman and Lise Nelson will discuss the ins and outs of human subjects review and related basic tenets of research ethics in the humanities and social sciences. An extended question and answer period will allow the audience time to clarify remaining questions or concerns about human subjects protocols.

Join us for the pre-play for Salmon Is Everything at Hope Theater. Sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society and Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities.

Indigeneity in Teacher Education, a new CSWS Research Interest Group (RIG) coordinated by graduate student Shadiin Garcia, hopes to build a community of people interested in exploring the work of women indigenous scholars in the field of education.

University of Oregon professor Daniel Martinez HoSang was selected by the Organization of American Historians (OAH) to receive the 2011 James A. Rawley Prize, which is given annually for the best book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States. HoSang’s book Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California was published in October 2010.

This two-day symposium, March 8-9, 2012, focuses on human rights and capitalism. Issues will include how to measure economic progress, human rights and the economy, women’s unpaid labor, the care crisis, and women and development. Part of the Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which is funded by a gift from Val and Madge Lorwin to the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences and School of Law.

UO assistant professor Kate Mondloch, Department of Art History, recently won a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship.

The CSWS Symposium “Women’s Activism, Women’s Rights” brought together two scholars and two activists to a round-table discussion on women’s labor organizing issues from global and national perspectives. The symposium was held Monday, February 28, 2011. Dr. Vandana Shiva, the 2011 Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics, served as moderator.

Screening of “Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WWII” and a discussion with filmmaker LeAnn Erickson. LeAnn Erickson is an associate professor, Department of Film and Media Arts, Temple University, and has been an independent video and filmmaker for more than 20 years. In 1941, soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a secret military program was launched to recruit women to the war effort. But unlike the efforts to recruit Rosie to the factory, this search targeted female mathematicians who would become human “computers” for the U.S. military. From the bombing of Axis Europe to the assaults on Japanese strongholds, the women worked round-the-clock shifts creating ballistics tables that proved crucial to Allied success.

This talk addresses critical issues in the efforts to bring to court human rights violators in Latin America. It discusses two types of national courts litigation: first, when litigation is available in the country where the crime occurred; and second and most commonly, when litigation takes place in third country national courts (also known as universal jurisdiction).

Dr. Cynthia Bejarano is the Stan Fulton Endowed Chair in Arts and Sciences and an associate professor of Criminal Justice at New Mexico State University. In 2010, she was named Outstanding New Mexico Woman of the Year by the New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women for her activism in bringing attention to feminicide in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and for her advocacy for farmworkers and their families.

This event is part of a 2011-2012 collaboration between two research interest groups (RIGs) at the UO’s Center for the Study of Women in Society—the Américas RIG and the Law, Culture, and Society RIG—on the theme of “Service and Servitude.” The gathering of this group of scholars here in Eugene is possible through the support of the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS), Department of English, Department of Ethnic Studies, the Oregon Humanities Center, and the UO School of Law.

Join us for this moving and engaging film directed by Deepa Mehta and discussion led by representatives from the South Asian Women’s Empowerment and Resource Alliance (SAWERA) and Family and Community Empowerment (FACE).

Dr. Beverly Wright, environmental scholar and founding director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University, discusses her work advocating for the African-American community in New Orleans. Dr. Wright was interviewed on the program UO Today on February 2, 2011.