CSWS Affiliate Alisa Freedman Interviewed
Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for December 2013 is now available on the Fembot website.
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“Building Feminist Worlds” Recommended Book List
Molly Gloss / photo by Jack LiuBuilding Feminist Worlds—40th Anniversary Symposium panel recommended works: L. Timmel Duchamp, Molly Gloss, Andrea Hairston, Larissa Lai, Margaret McBride
Fall 2013 Research Matters: Eileen Otis on “Worlds of Work in Walmart, China”
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.
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.
Now Out! The Fembot Collective Focuses on Feminist Science Fiction in Ada, Issue No. 3
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 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
“Feminist Futures” — 2013 CSWS Annual Review now available
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
Telling Stories Truly | eugeneweekly.com.
Ursula K. Le Guin to speak at CSWS anniversary
Documentary Premiere: “Agents of Change” at CSWS 40th Opening Celebration
At this 40th Anniversary kick-off event, guest speakers and a new documentary honor agents of change at the University of Oregon and their legacies of feminist research, teaching, and activism.
CSWS 40th Anniversary Promo Video
Produced by Pamela Cressall. Special thanks to OR Media, UO School of Journalism and Communication.
Sally Miller Gearhart “Worlds Beyond World” Symposium: Feminist Utopian Thought
In this symposium, authors and cultural critics explore feminist creative production and the roles of speculative fiction and utopian ideas in imagining feminist futures.
“Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives” Symposium — 40th celebration
Friday, Nov. 8, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., the “Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives” Symposium explores four decades of feminist research and activism through five interwoven themes: women’s rights, violence against women, women’s health, activism and policy, and education and employment. Guest speakers will share personal narratives, visual illustrations, and dialogue to illuminate some of the local, cultural, and global issues at stake across forty years of women’s lives.
“The Right to Culture as a Human Right: Noise, Gender Violence, and the Cultural Defense”—Alison Dundes Renteln
Ben Linder Room
Erb Memorial Union
1222 E. 13th Ave.
“Degrees of Freedom: Intimacy, Slavery, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Latin America” with Professor Michelle McKinley
Lewis Lounge, Knight Law Center 1515 Agate St. UO campus
CSWS: “Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives” JSMA Photo Exhibit
This special selection of photographs from the permanent collection is on view in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, a campus organization that creates, funds, and shares research that addresses the complicated nature of gender identities and inequalities. Curated by graduate students Sarah Turner with assistance from Regan Watjus, “Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives” presents images representing the diversity of the female experience.
A Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin
On Friday, Nov. 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Erb Memorial Union (EMU), “A Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin” sets the stage for feminist speculations of future worlds. Le Guin started publishing science fiction and fantasy in the 1960s and has won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy awards, each more than once.
How to Peer-Review Multimodal Content
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.
Renewing Feminisms: Radical Narratives, Fantasies and Futures in Media Studies
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).
Supported by a CSWS Faculty Grant, a new journal article by Ellen McWhirter: Latina Adolescents’ Plans, Barriers, and Supports
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.
CSWS Affiliate Anita Weiss co-PI of $1 million grant for university partnership in Pakistan
UO receives $1 million grant for university partnership in Pakistan | AroundtheO.
Anita Weiss is professor and head of the UO Department of International Studies.
Celebrating Forty Years: Anniversary event to showcase feminist research, activism, and creativity
This fall, the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) celebrates the legacy of feminist research, teaching, activism, and creativity at the University of Oregon.
Presented in collaboration with the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and ASUO Women’s Center, CSWS’s 40th Anniversary Celebration will be held Nov. 7-9, 2013, in UO’s Erb Memorial Union.
“The New Anti-Rape Movement on Campus: Networked Survivors Fighting for Reform” — Caroline Heldman and Danielle Dirks
Fenton Hall, Room 110
1021 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus
Lynn Stephen to Launch New Book: “We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements”
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
CSWS Road Scholars Talk — Jane Grant: A Feminist Legacy
OSHER Lifelong Learning Center
Eugene, OR
Jane Grant: A Feminist Legacy
Iberian and Latin American Studies Symposium
Friday Location:
UO Knight Library, Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid
Saturday Location: Jaqua Academic Center for Student AthletesAuditorium 1615 East 13th Avenue, Eugene
Laura Edwards—“Women, Law, and Culture: Rethinking Legal Change in the Civil War Era”
Laura Edwards, Duke UniversityTime and Place TBA
Cuban Filmmaker Marilyn Solaya to Screen “In the Wrong Body”
“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.
Lauren Heidbrink—“Collisions of Debt and Interest: Youth Negotiations of (In)debt(ed) Migration and the Best Interests of the Child”
Lewis Lounge
Knight Law Center
1515 Agate St., UO campus
Américas Research Interest Group presents Lauren Heidbrink
The Third Annual Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture
Browsing Room, Knight Library
1501 Kincaid Street
University of Oregon