Yvonne Braun lecture: “Networking for Women’s Rights: Transnational Organizing in Southern Africa”
Yvonne BraunBrowsing Rm, Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus
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Yvonne BraunBeverly Stoeltje lecture: “Queen Mothers in Contemporary Asante in Ghana: Authority or Decorative Symbol?”
Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St.
Ada Issue 5: Queer Feminist Media Praxis is now online
July 10, 2014—Fembot, a CSWS Special Project, announces the release of its latest edition of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology.
“Scientific Failures and the Loss of Trust: International Attempts at Malaria Elimination in Zanzibar 1900-2014,” a research talk by Melissa Graboyes
Melissa GraboyesGraduate School Student Lounge Susan Campbell Hall 1431 Johnson Lane UO campus
“‘Who is Marjorie Mensah?’ The Educated Woman and the Formation of a Modern West African Nation”
Browsing Room, Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus
“Whiteness and the Literary Construction of Homosexuality,” a CSWS Noon Talk by Michael Hames-García
Michael Hames-García / photo by Ernesto Javier Martínez
FEMBOT: Ada, Issue 7, Open Call CFP
Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology | adanewmedia.org Issue 7, February 2015
Ada is a publication of Fembot, which is a special project of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society.
CSWS Research Matters Spring 2014: Erin Beck
Spring 2014 CSWS Research Matters:
“In Guatemala: Everyday Practices and Experiences of Development through Women’s Eyes,” by Erin Beck, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon Department of Political Science
Running from Peril, Chasing Hope: Central American Children and the Refugee Crisis
Ford Alumni Center 1720 E. 13th Ave. UO campus
A symposium to start a dialogue, grow awareness, and plan for action
Visit our website: education.uoregon.edu/ceqp-info
“The Longest Unwritten Chapter”: Interrelated Histories of African and Native America
Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
Department of Ethnic Studies presents
Brazilian Documentary: Two lectures by visiting scholar Gilberto Alexandre Sobrinho
221 Allen Hall
1020 University St.
UO campus
Michael Hames-García Edits Spring 2014 Aztlán Spotlight Dossier on Jotería Studies
Incoming CSWS director Michael Hames-García (professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies) edited a special “Dossier” section on jotería studies for the journal Aztlán (Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring 2014).
“¡Santa!: Afro-Diasporic Ways of Being and Knowing,” with Ana-Maurine Lara
Ana-Maurine Lara204 Condon Hall 1321 Kincaid St. UO campus
Native Studies Research Colloquium — Lynn Stephen
Professor Lynn Stephen (photo by Michael McDermott)
Many Nations Longhouse 1630 Columbia St. UO campus Free & open to the public (Bring Your Own Lunch)
Schools of Shame Map (SOS-Map) | Fembot Collective
Schools of Shame Map (SOS-Map) | Fembot Collective.
This map lists universities in the US that need help addressing sexual violence: all of them.
Now available: “Salmon Is Everything: Community-Based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed,” by Theresa May
Salmon Is Everything: Community-Based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed, by Theresa May with Suzanne Burcell, Kathleen McCovey, and Jean O'Hara. Foreword by Gordon Bettles. (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies, 2014), 208 pages. ISBN 978-0-87071-746-8.
Cecilia Enjuto Rangel Wins 2014 Excellence Award
Cecilia Enjuto RangelJune 4, 2014
Graduate School announces winners of 2014 Excellence Awards | Around the O.
Inaugural Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow Visits UO Campus
Canadian scholar Kathryn Allan traveled to Eugene in late May to carry out her research project, “Locating Dis/Ability in Utopian Feminist Science Fiction.” Chosen as the inaugural Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction fellow, Allan spent 10 days in the Univ
Marie A. Vitulli named 2014 AWM-MAA Falconer Lecturer
Marie A. VitulliUniversity of Oregon professor emerita of mathematics and CSWS faculty affiliate will deliver the 2014 AWM-MAA Falconer Lecture at MathFest 2014 during August 6 – 9 in Portland, OR.
Author of “Lifestyle Politics and Radical Activism” Interviewed
Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for May 2014 is now available on the Fembot website. In this BAD interview Magdalena Olszanowski (Ph.D.
Jennifer Freyd takes part in White House announcement
April 29, 2014—Jennifer Freyd, a CSWS faculty affiliate and University of Oregon psychology professor, “was part of a White House event Tuesday that included a major announcement on the effort to address sexual assaults on college campuses.” Read more at: Jennifer Freyd takes part in White House announcement | Around the O.
“Same-Sex Intimacies in an Early Modern African Text about an Ethiopian Female Saint, ‘Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros’ (1672)”
Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
Mia McKenzie: Lyllye B. Parker Women of Color Speaker Series
Global Scholars Great Hall 1710 E. 15th Ave. Room 123
The ASUO Women’s Center Presents the Lyllye B. Parker Women of Color Speaker Series: Mia McKenzie
Johanna Crane: Who is Global Health For? Tenacious Assumptions in Global Health Science
Browsing Room
Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.
A Public Talk
CSWS Noon Talk: Jenée Wilde, “Bridging Humanities and Social Science Methods in PhD Research”
Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall, 1408 University St. printable flyer PDF
UO study: Abusive relationships damage girls’ educational pursuits
UO study: Abusive relationships damage girls' educational pursuits | Around the O.
CSWS faculty affiliate Krista M. Chronister, associate professor in the UO Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services in the College of Education, led this study. Chronister’s research has been supported previously by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant.
Give a Laptop, Change the World: The Story of the OLPC in Ghana
Published on Apr 1, 2014
Give a Laptop, Change the World: The Story of the OLPC in Ghana, a documentary by Leslie Steeves, examines the MIT Media Lab's One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project—which aims to make low cost computers accessible to the “world's poorest children”—and its implementation in two pilot schools, one urban and one rural, in Ghana, West Africa.
Karma R. Chávez Interview Featured in Fembot’s “Books Aren’t Dead”
Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for April 2014 is now available on the Fembot website. In this BAD interview Magie Ramírez (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington) talks with Karma R.
