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: A legacy of feminist research, teaching, and activism at the University of Oregon

Karen Joy Fowler’s ‘We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves’ - NYTimes.com.

Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for December 2013 is now available on the Fembot website.

Scott Coltrane

Coltrane’s paternity research in The Atlantic | AroundtheO

Molly Gloss / photo by Jack Liu

Building Feminist Worlds—40th Anniversary Symposium panel recommended works: L. Timmel Duchamp, Molly Gloss, Andrea Hairston, Larissa Lai, Margaret McBride

Sociology professor Eileen Otis writes about how migrants from rural areas navigate China’s new urban class system in the latest issue of Research Matters, a publication of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society.

November 8, 2013

November 5, 2013—The Fembot Collective is delighted to announce the third issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology! This issue, “Feminist Science Fiction,” is edited by special issue editor Alexis Lothian (Assistant Professor of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania).

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

If you are a CSWS faculty affiliate, research interest group member, supporter, contributor, or UO administrator, watch for the 2013 CSWS Annual Review in your mailbox.

Telling Stories Truly | eugeneweekly.com.

Ursula K. Le Guin to speak at CSWS anniversary

EMU Ballroom, UO campus map 1222 E. 13th Ave. Reception: Fir Room Event Schedule (PDF)

Produced by Pamela Cressall. Special thanks to OR Media, UO School of Journalism and Communication.

EMU Ballroom UO campus map Full schedule PDF. For more information about 40th anniversary events, go to: http://csws.uoregon.edu/?pag

Painting by Miriam Johnson / courtesy of Ben Johnson

Ballroom Erb Memorial Union 1222 E. 13th Ave. UO campus map PDF of Event Schedule

Ben Linder Room Erb Memorial Union 1222 E. 13th Ave.

Knight Library, 1501 Kincaid St.

Lewis Lounge, Knight Law Center 1515 Agate St. UO campus

Research Corner | eugeneweekly.com.

Digital Scholarship Center UO Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St.

Digital Scholarship Center Knight Library & via Google Hang-Out

The nature of peer review is changing, as authors experiment with new modes of knowledge production. On 17 January 2014, 1-3pm PST, the Fembot Collective will host a workshop that explores how we review and peer edit multimodal content.

Sonia De La Cruz, PhD student, UO School of Journalism and Communication, is a contributor to Section 2, “Lived Feminists identities,” of the newly released book Renewing Feminisms: Radical Narratives, Fantasies and Futures in Media Studies, edited by Helen Thornham and Elke Weissmann (London, New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013).

Ellen Hawley McWhirter is the Ann Swindells Professor of Counseling Psychology; Director of Training, Counseling Psychology Program. The following article, published in 2013, is the result of a research project made possible by a grant from the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society. See also a related article in the Winter 2009 edition of CSWS Research Matters.

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St.

UO receives $1 million grant for university partnership in Pakistan | AroundtheO.

Anita Weiss is professor and head of the UO Department of International Studies.

Graduate Student Center Susan Campbell Hall Room 111

University of Oregon Erb Memorial Union 1222 E. 13th Ave.a

Fenton Hall, Room 110 1021 E. 13th Ave. UO campus

Knight Library Browsing Rm 1501 Kincaid St.

We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements by Lynn Stephen, Director, CLLAS, Distinguished Professor, UO Department of Anthropology

OSHER Lifelong Learning Center Eugene, OR

Jane Grant: A Feminist Legacy

Friday Location: UO Knight Library, Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid

Saturday Location: Jaqua Academic Center for Student AthletesAuditorium 1615 East 13th Avenue, Eugene

Laura Edwards, Duke University

Time and Place TBA

Michelle McKinley

McKinley named Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law | AroundtheO