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
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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.
Feminist Museum Blog
http://thefeministmuseum.wordpress.com/
This graffiti board was one of several items on display at the Feminist Museum.CSWS helped support the Feminist Museum’s first pop-up exhibition, on display at LaVerne Krause Gallery in early March 2014.
Now in print: “Gender, Sex, Love in Poetic Dialogues of the Early Twentieth Century” by Dorothee Ostmeier
A CSWS-supported book project by Dorothee Ostmeier, University of Oregon professor of German and Folklore, is now
Road Scholars: Documentary Filmmaker Gabriela Martínez to present “Agents of Change”
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Gabriela Martínez will present Agents of Change: A Legacy of Feminist Research, Teaching and Activism at the University of Oregon, a film she produced with Sonia De La Cruz. The film, developed for the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, and the ASUO Women’s Center, chronicles the history of these units within the broader context of the Women’s Rights Movement.
Jafari Sinclaire Allen: “Black/Queer Here & There: Ethnography of An Idea”
Erb Memorial Union
Gumwood Rm
1222 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus
Ms. Fembot Edit-a-Thon + Hack-a-Thon
Fembot is a CSWS Special Project.
Join Us! For the Ms. Fembot Edit-a-Thon + Hack-a-Thon Friday, March 6, 2015 and Saturday, March 7, 2015
Nancy Tuana: “Coming to Understand Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance”
115 Lawrence Hall
1190 Franklin Blvd.
UO campus
A Public Lecture by Nancy Tuana
Mary E. Wood, “Life Writing and Schizophrenia: Encounters at the Edge of Meaning”
Humanities Center Conference Rm (159 PLC)
1415 Kincaid St.
Anjali Arondekar—“Telling Tales: Sexuality's Fictions”
Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
A Dialogue about Surveys, Services, and Sanctions: Sexual Assault on Campus
UO Living Learning Center
Performance Hall
1455-75 E. 15th
Opening of “Recipe: The Kitchen and Laboratory in the West, 1400-2000”
Browsing Room
Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus
Asian American Voices: A Collins Literary Forum
Gish 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
Faculty Workshop: “Researching Human Rights in Latin America: Challenges, Resources, and Strategies”
Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
Metolius Room
UO campus
Margaret Jacobs, “Remembering the Forgotten Child: the Indigenous Welfare Crisis of the 1960s-1970s”
Margaret JacobsKnight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St.
Michael Messner: “Male Allies, and the Politics of Feminist Accountability”
Prince Lucien Campbell Hall
(PLC), Rm 714
UO campus
Official and Other Truths: Memories of Dictatorship in the Wake of Brazil’s National Truth Commission
Gerlinger Hall Alumni Lounge 1468 University St.
Reading and book signing with acclaimed Canadian writer Louise Dupré
Museum of Natural and Cultural History
1680 E 15th Ave.
Eugene, OR
Ileana Rodríguez-Silva: “Gender and Class in the Silencing of Race in Puerto Rico”
Browsing Room, Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. printable flyer Public Talk
“I have come to my garden”: Ancient Jewish Constructions of Space and Gender—by Deborah Green
Winter 2014, CSWS Research Matters: “I have come to my garden”: Ancient Jewish Constructions of Space and Gender—by Deborah Green, Greenberg Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, Department of Religious Studies; Director, Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies.
Reforming Sexual Violence Prevention at the University of Oregon: Caroline Heldman & Danielle Dirks
Editor’s Note: Caroline Heldman and Danielle Dirks were invited to the University of Oregon campus as part of the 2013-14 Lorwin Lectureship Series, presented by the Center for the Study of Women in Society. Because of a winter storm, all events were cancelled on the UO campus that day. CSWS was able to videotape a brief portion of their planned talk in a studio situation.
Shannon Elizabeth Bell Interviewed for Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead Podcast
Fembot’s February Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview couldn’t come at a more important time, especially in light of last month’s Elk River chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia.
Brown Bag Discussion: “Feminist Approaches to Mandatory Reporting of Sexual Violence”
Jane Grant Room
330 Hendricks Hall
1408 University St.
Ruth Milkman — “Gender and Labor: Comparing the Great Depression and the Great Recession”
Professor Ruth MilkmanLiving Learning Center Room 101 Free & open to the public
A talk by Ruth Milkman, professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Conference: Academia//Activism: Reimagining Education Without Gender Discrimination
Allen Hall 221
1020 University St.
UO campus
Calling undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff to engage in a collaborative conference to create interdisciplinary solutions to gender discrimination.
CSWS Noon Talk: Megan Burke, “Heterosexuality, Sexual Violence and the Temporality of Femininity”
Jane Grant Rm
330 Hendricks
1408 University
printable flyer
Documentary by Gabriela Martínez to be shown during Border Film Week at the University of San Diego
Border Film Week - Events at the University of San Diego.
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.
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.”
“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.
Reviews of Karen Joy Fowler’s “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”
Karen Joy Fowler’s ‘We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves’ - NYTimes.com.