Fighting Impunity in National Courts: Human Rights & Transitional Justice in Latin America
Knight Library, Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus
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“Terrorizing Women: Feminicide and Gender Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands”—Cynthia Bejarano
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.
Symposium: “Place and Displacement in African American Literature”
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.
Addressing Violence: In the Lives of South Asian Women
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).
Bodies Under Siege—Barbara Sutton to Talk about Her Recent Book
Browsing Room, Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.
UO Campus
Barbara Sutton will talk about the findings and arguments in her recently published book, Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina (Rutgers 2010).
Dealing Head-on with Issues of Environmental Racism
Introduction for Dr. Beverly Wright, Director, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
by Margaret L. Paris, Philip H. Knight Dean and Professor, University of Oregon School of Law“The Perilous Consequences of Public Policy Decisions: Weathering the Storm of Natural and Man-made Disasters in the Gulf”—Dr. Beverly Wright
EMU Ballroom 1222 E. 13th Ave. University of Oregon
“A New Epicurean Atlas of Oregon” Roundtable
Jim Meacham, Senior Research Associate and Administrative and Research Director, InfoGraphics Lab, "A New Epicurean Atlas of Oregon” roundtable. Join us for a lively discussion at a roundtable with Jim Meacham (director, UO InfoGraphics Lab) and Lindsay Naylor (PhD candidate, UO Department of Geography) to discuss budding plans for a new epicurean atlas of Oregon.
Honoring Excellence in Research and Teaching
The Center for the Study of Women in Society offers congratulations to our CSWS Affiliates in the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences who have won research, teaching, or community outreach awards from March 2010 through February 15, 2011. Recipients were honored February 15, 2011 at a reception in their honor in Gerlinger Lounge on the UO campus.
Three CSWS Associates Receive 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards
January 2011—Michael Hames-Garcia, professor and head of the Ethnic Studies Department; Janis Weeks, professor of biology; and Tina Gutierez-Schmich, a professional development specialist in the Center on Diversity and Community, are among the winners of the 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards at the University of Oregon.
“Revisiting The Stranger Next Door: Reflections on Sexual Politics and Human Dignity in the New Millennium”—Arlene Stein
Knight Law Center
Room 110
UO campus
CSWS Noon Talk: “Sentence and Silence in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry”—Maggie Evans
330 Hendricks Hall
Jane Grant Room
UO campus
Maggie Evans is a graduate student in the UO Department of English.
CSWS Chooses Two Winners For Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship
Shelley Annette Grosjean (History) and Sara S. Quinn (Anthropology) are co-winners of the 2010-11 Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship. Following an open competition among University of Oregon undergraduates working on a senior thesis on issues related to women and/or gender, the Center for the Study of Women in Society selected the two UO seniors to share the $1,000 prize.
CSWS Blog: Women's Rights in a Global World
Have you seen our new CSWS blog, Women’s Rights in a Global World?
“Sin Miedo: Violence, Mobility, and Identity in el Paso del Norte”—René Kladzyk
Wall of Black Marker bar, El Paso, TexasCondon Hall Room 360 UO campus
Book Release: Daniel HoSang
Gerlinger Alumni Lounge 1468 University St. University of Oregon campus
Book release event for Daniel HoSang’s new work, Racial Propositions. Refreshments will be served.
Modern Girl Culture and Working-Class Women in Interwar Japan
Saturday
McKenzie Hall, Room 375
UO campus
A workshop talk by Barbara Sato, Professor of History at Seikei University in Japan
The Mobile Family: Protecting the Children of Same-Sex Parents Within and Across State Borders
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus
Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture—Scylla, Charybdis, and “Path to Citizenship”
Knight Library Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus
Please join us for the Ethnic Studies Inaugural Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture
Food in the Field RIG: Reception for Dr. Julie Guthman
Leona Tyler Conference Room, Graduate School
125 Chapman Hall
Feminist Publishing in the Digital Age: Gender, New Media & Technology Symposium
For decades, feminist media scholars have analyzed media production, consumption, and distribution across media industries and historical periods, laying a critical, historiographical, and theoretical foundation for the scholarly work of today. We now turn these tools to our own media production—journals, books, blogs, wikis, and pedagogical media—to explore what new territories are revealed through feminist intervention into multi-modal scholarly publishing. The occasion also marks a significant milestone in the development of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology.
2010-11 Lorwin Lecture Series
Organized by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the inaugural Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties explores the topic of “Women’s Rights in a Global World” through a yearlong series of lectures, symposia, workshops and related events featuring world-class activists, scholars, and writers.
In Memoriam: Peggy Pascoe
Peggy Pascoe, whose research and teaching focused on the history of race, gender and sexuality, was the Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History and professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. With family and friends at her side, she died from ovarian cancer on July 23, 2010, at home in Eugene, Oregon.
UO Anthropology Professor to Be Interviewed on The Jefferson Exchange
Cultural anthropologist Lamia Karim, author of Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt i
CSWS Grantee Jennifer Erickson Interviewed
“What happens when white, ethnically Muslim refugees from a once-strong paternalist, socialist state like Bosnia-Herzegovina come to the United States, where economic self-sufficiency is the ultimate goal? How do Black, Christian Southern Sudanese—many of whom had little experience with running water, electricity, cold weather, or bureaucratic government—fare in Fargo?”
Celebrating Research by Women of Color
This event will honor University of Oregon women of color faculty whose articles and books were published from 2008 - 2010.
Men, Women, Muxe: Mexico’s Third Gender
CSWS Executive Committee member Lynn Stephen recently appeared on the CNN program “Men, Women, Muxe” in the series “The World’s Untold Stories.” Stephen—director of the University of Oregon’s Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) and distinguished professor of anthropology and ethnic studies—provided background and commentary on the Muxes of Juchitán, Oaxaca. The Muxes are a Zapotec indigenous third gender who have a long history in southern Mexico. Stephen has conducted research on gender and sexuality in southern Mexico and published an article in 2002 on this topic.
Console-ing Passions Conference
Founded by a group of feminist media scholars and artists, Console-ing Passions creates collegial spaces for scholarship and other creative work on culture, identity, gender, and sexuality in television and related media. Since the early 1990s, Console-ing Passions conferences have supported new research on a myriad of feminist perspectives related to the study of television, digital, and aural media.
Animating the Archive—Tara McPherson
Digital Scholars 2010 Collaboration Center, 22A (part of the Computer Lab suite) Erb Memorial Union (EMU), UO campus
Gender Differences in First Jobs for New Ph.D.s in Mathematics
“An Update: Are Women Getting All the Jobs?”
by Mary E. Flahive, Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University, and Marie A. Vitulli, CSWS faculty affiliate and professor, UO Department of Mathematics
A preprint of this article, submitted to the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, can be viewed on Vitulli’s Women in Math website.
Bodies in Crisis—new book from CSWS fellowship winner
Sutton, Barbara. 2010. Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press).
Bodies in Crisis bookcover
CSWS Celebrates Women’s History Month with Presentations at Local Schools
Michele AicheleThe Center for the Study of Women in Society is playing an active community role in celebrating Women’s History Month this March by sending UO graduate students and professors into Eugene School District 4J classrooms through its Road Scholars Program.
“Whatever Happened to Zulay?”—a research paper by Sharon R. Sherman
Professor Sharon Sherman shoots documentary footage on location in a small Andean village in Ecuador. Anthropologist Mabel Preloran is on the far left.Documentary filmmaker Sharon R.