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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.

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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)

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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.

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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

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Michelle McKinley

McKinley named Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law | AroundtheO

“In The Wrong Body” tells the story of Mavi Susel, who underwent Cuba’s first gender reassignment operation in 1988. In addition this documentary explores such timely issues as the meaning of femininity in the macho and patriarchal society of Cuba.

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

Américas Research Interest Group presents Lauren Heidbrink

Browsing Room, Knight Library 1501 Kincaid Street University of Oregon

CLLAS Guatemala Collaborative Team Receives Grant from UO Genocide Prevention Initiative | CLLAS.

Six CSWS faculty affiliates were among 14 UO faculty chosen to receive the Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards for AY 2013-14.  Each recipient will be awarded $20,000 in recognition for his or her research, teaching and leadership. They are:

Hendricks 330 Jane Grant Room 1408 University St.

For junior faculty associated with the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS), Latin American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and the CSWS Américas Research Interest Group

June 1, 2013—The Fembot Collective is delighted to announce the second issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology! This issue, “Feminist Game Studies,” is edited by Nina Huntemann (Suffolk University) and features articles by Audrey Anable (University of Toronto), Kishonna L.

Janis Weeks, a CSWS faculty affiliate and  professor in the UO Department of Biology, Institute of Neuroscience, and African Studies Program, is the first UO researcher to be awarde

Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels a new book by Courtney Thorsson

“Leaving the Lecture: The Faculty Wives” (1936) Anne McCosh

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Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering edited by Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline Lundquist Fordham University Press November 2012 424 pages