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Anjali Arondekar—“Telling Tales: Sexuality's Fictions”

Anjali Arondekar is an associate professor of Feminist Studies and Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research engages the poetics and politics of sexuality, geopolitics and historiography. Her first book, For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India,/em> won the 2010 Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for best book in lesbian, gay, or queer studies in literature and cultural studies from the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association.

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Asian American Voices: A Collins Literary Forum

AsianVoice6FsmallGish Jen April 21 - 8:00pm Public Reading Knight Browsing Room

Maxine Hong Kingston May 5 - 8:00pm Public Reading Columbia 150

Bill Cheng May 12 - 8:00pm Public Reading Knight Browsing Room

Chang-Rae Lee May 15 - 8:00pm Public Reading Columbia 150

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Michael Messner: “Male Allies, and the Politics of Feminist Accountability”

Michael Messner, professor of sociology, University of Southern California, will be the featured speaker for the UO Department of Sociology’s Winter Colloquium #6. He will speak on the subject of “Male Allies, and the Politics of Feminist Accountability.” Messner published most recently Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women.

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Reading and book signing with acclaimed Canadian writer Louise Dupré

The UO Department of Romance Languages and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History invite you to a reading and book signing by acclaimed Canadian writer Louise Dupré. A major figure in contemporary Quebec literature, Dupré is the author of Plus haut que les flammes, a volume of poetry written after her visit to the sites of former concentration camps in Europe, and L'Album multicolore, a poetic memoir published in 2014. Dupré will read selections of her poetry and prose, both in the original French and in English translation. The event is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served.

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“Habits of Leaking: Of Sluts and Network Cards,” a seminar with Wayne Morse Chair Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Wayne Morse Chair visitor during winter term, will offer a lunchtime seminar at the Center for the Study of Women in Society. The date has been changed to February 19, 2015, at noon. Dr. Chun’s forthcoming article “Habits of Leaking: Of Sluts and Network Cards” will form the basis of her seminar. It is a fascinating analysis of how our public networks blame the user for self-exposure and consequent attacks rather than the very nature of the internet and networks.

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Ileana Rodríguez-Silva: “Gender and Class in the Silencing of Race in Puerto Rico”

Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva is an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Washington, Department of History. She earned her B.A. at the Universidad de Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rodriguez-Silva is the author of the award-winning book Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico.

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Screening of the CSWS Documentary “Agents of Change”

Agents of Change chronicles the development of the University of Oregon Center for the Study of Women in Society and the UO Department of Women’s and Gender Studies within the broader context of the women’s movement. Screening of documentary followed by Q & A with director Gabriela Martínez and co-producer Sonia De La Cruz. Free and open to the public.

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CSWS Noon Talk: Megan Burke, “Heterosexuality, Sexual Violence and the Temporality of Femininity”

PhD candidate Megan Burke (philosophy) will give a lunch-time talk related to her dissertation research. This talk will examine the way in which sexual violence is integral to the production and lived experience of gendered subjectivity by focusing on the philosophical question of temporality. Burke’s research and teaching interests include Feminist Philosophy, Existential Phenomenology, 20th Century Continental Philosophy, and Social-Political Philosophy.

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A Brief Review: CSWS 40th Anniversary Celebration

More than a thousand people attended the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, which took place November 7 - 9, 2013, at the Erb Memorial Union and featured two days of symposiums in addition to a documentary premiere and a keynote literary address. Held in collaboration with the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the ASUO Women’s Center, the celebration highlighted 40 years of research, teaching, creativity, and activism on the UO campus.

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CSWS 40th Anniversary Featured in UO’s Student-Run Emerald Media

UO Center for Women in Society celebrates 40th anniversary and strive for equality | Emerald Media. Story by Natalie Maier.

“We’ve come a long way and we’ve got a long way to go,” Jenée Wilde, one of the main organizers of the 40th anniversary said. “What’s very revealing to me is that there are a lot of attitudes that we still need change in our country about women and about women’s ability to succeed. And how hard women have to work to prove that they are equal to men.”

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“Agents of Change”—new CSWS documentary records a legacy of feminist research, teaching, and activism at the UO

Agents of Change chronicles the development of the University of Oregon Center for the Study of Women in Society and the UO Department of Women’s and Gender Studies within the broader context of the women’s movement. By 1970, women faculty members across universities in the United States were beginning to teach the first women’s studies courses, while also taking on the fight for pay equity and affirmative action in hiring.

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CSWS Names First Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow at the 40th Anniversary Celebration Keynote Event

Eugene, OR – Canadian scholar and editor Kathryn Allan has been selected as the first ever recipient of the Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. Sponsored equally by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, Robert D. Clark Honors College, and the UO Libraries Special Collections and University Archives, the award supports travel for the purpose of research on, and work with, the papers of feminist science fiction authors housed in the Knight Library.

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Impact of Imagination on Society Award to Ursula K. Le Guin

Impact of Imagination on Society: Ursula K. Le Guin

The 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Impact of Imagination on Society was presented to Ursula K. Le Guin, author of science fiction and fantasy works for adults and children, on 22 October 2013 in Washington, D.C.  Shelley Streeby, director, Clarion Writers’ Workshop at University of California, San Diego, made the presentation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wSBAQnRF_H8

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