Lynn Fujiwara Named Chair Elect of ASA Section on Asia and Asian America
July 12, 2011—University of Oregon associate professor Lynn Fujiwara was named chair elect of the Section on Asia and Asian America for the American Sociological Association.
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Bollywood's Global Push—UO Professor Interviewed in The Christian Science Monitor
June 13, 2011—The Christian Science Monitor: Bollywood's global push.
Food in the Field—a new CSWS Research Interest Group
“Food in the Field” is a new CSWS interdisciplinary research interest group (RIG) that investigates ideas in the field of food studies, the operations of cultural fields related to food consumption, and the gendered labor that takes place in the farm fields of food production.
CSWS Faculty Affiliates Win Awards
The Center for the Study of Women in Society honors its faculty affiliates who are among those named as University of Oregon Award Winners 2010–11.
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Jane Grant Fellowship Awardee Wins Additional Honors
The Center for the Study of Women in Society honors 2010 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship awardee Ingrid Nelson, geography, who in 2010-11 received these additional awards:
- Fulbright Fellowship, Fulbright Commission
- Society of Woman Geographers Evelyn L. Pruitt National Fellowship for Dissertation Research
CSWS Noon Talk: “The One Laptop Per Child Project in Ghana,” Leslie Steeves
Jane Grant Rm
330 Hendricks
1408 University St.
“Technology, Gender and Education for Development: The One Laptop Per Child Project in Ghana”
“Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes”—Courtney Thorsson
Professor Thorsson will be discussing her work in progress, “Revolutionary Recipes: Foodways and African American Literature.” “Revolutionary Recipes” argues that a group of African American poems, novels, and cookbooks construct race, gender, and class through culinary discourse. Thorsson's talk will draw from “Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes,” the initial chapter of this project in which she seeks to establish a scholarly understanding of foodways through the writings of Vertamae Grosvenor, author of the 1970 cookbook Vibration Cooking: Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl.
“The Tempest, Europe, & Maritime Modernity”—Ania Loomba
Alumni Lounge
Gerlinger Hall
1468 University St.
Sheryl WuDunn: 2011 Lorwin Lecture
“Half the Sky: The Greatest Unexploited Resource in the World Today Isn’t Oil or Gold or Wind. It’s Women.” —Sheryl WuDunn
2011 Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Erb Memorial Union Ballroom University of OregonPulitzer Prize–winning journalist Sheryl WuDunn coauthored the influential book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.
Slideshow photographs by Jack Liu.
The Impact of Microfinance on Women’s Empowerment in Bolivia
Alejandra Garcia helps facilitate a focus group session with microfinance clients in Bolivia.Hendricks Hall Frazier Hearth Rm UO campus
CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium presents: MemoirFest
You're invited to MemoirFest, an all-day symposium on women writers and memoir. MemoirFest will feature presentations and panel discussions by Debra Gwartney, Crystal Williams, Lidia Yuknavitch, Lauren Kessler, Margarita Donnelly, Elizabeth Reis, and Dominick Vetri. Registered participants are invited to take part in roundtable discussions with the panelists on all aspects of memoir.
Women’s advocate to speak | Sheryl WuDunn, co-author of the book “Half the Sky,” will discuss civil rights and economic promise
Women’s advocate to speak | Sheryl WuDunn, co-author of the book “Half the Sky,” will discuss civil rights and economic promise.
May 10, 2011—From the Eugene Register-Guard
The Register-Guard BOOK NOTES: Readings, events, workshops, etc.
BOOK NOTES: Readings, events, workshops, etc..
UO professor’s book looks at problems of microfinance
The dark side of microfinance is explored in a new book by Lamia Karim, the associate director of the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society.
Daniel HoSang: Research Matters Spring 2011
Reproductive Justice on the Ballot by Daniel HoSang, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Departments of Ethnic Studies and Political Science
Roundtable: Domestic Slavery and Servitude in the Americas
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus
“Half the Sky: The Greatest Unexploited Resource in the World Today Isn't Oil or Gold or Wind. It’s Women.”—Sheryl WuDunn
Erb Memorial Union Ballroom 1222 E. 13th Ave., University of Oregon A FREE EVENT
Salmon Is Everything
Salmon Is Everything was developed from interviews and personal stories and insights of Karuk, Hupa and Yurok people who were directly affected by the 2002 fish kill on the . The script was developed by Theresa May, UO assistant professor of theatre arts, in collaboration with members of the Karuk, Hupa and Yurok communities. The play will be presented in University of Oregon’s Robinson Theatre May 20-June 4, 2011.
“Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels”—Courtney Thorsson
Professor Thorsson, UO Department of English, will discuss her forthcoming book Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels. Women’s Work argues that late twentieth-century novels by Toni Cade Bambara, Ntozake Shange, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, and Toni Morrison reclaim and revise cultural nationalism.
“Modernist Cuisine for Moderns”—Jennifer Burns Levin
Jennifer Burns Levin teaches literature at the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, where she leads an interdisciplinary faculty research interest group in food studies through the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society. She is editing a book-length manuscript, Lower Discipline: The Many Masochisms of Modernism, and researching a new project on modernist hunger and gastronomic practices.
Voices of Environmental Justice: A Panel Discussion
John E. Jaqua Academic Learning Center
1615 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus
FREE and open to the public
A panel discussion about environmental justice in Eugene and Lane County.
Moderator: Lisa Arkin, Executive Director of Beyond Toxics
“Whatever Happened to Zulay?”—a documentary film by Sharon Sherman
Whatever Happened to Zulay? An Otavaleña’s Journey is the story of a remarkable Ecuadoran woman who went through several life changes and maintained some continuity in her life, a continuity that made her successful in a new world, and surprisingly, at the same time remain attached to her own traditional one. A film that will appeal to everyone interested in cultural change, gender studies, folklore, ethnicity, Latin American communities, indigeneity, weaving, filmmakers, anthropology, textiles, oral history, folk architecture, and religion. A UO professor of Folklore and English, Sharon Sherman appears along with Zulay in this new documentary, as they both make changes and talk about the project.
Negotiating Human Subject Protocols: From the Practical to the Philosophical
Erb Memorial Union
Alsea/Coquille Rms
UO campus
Community-Based Theatre Around Native Issues
Hope Theatre 1109 Old Campus Lane University of Oregon campus
A pre-play lecture for Salmon Is Everything
Marcie Rendon, playwright and member of the White Earth Anishinabe Nation
Indigeneity in Teacher Education—a new CSWS Research Interest Group
Indigeneity in Teacher Education, a new CSWS Research Interest Group (RIG) coordinated by graduate student Shadiin Garcia, hopes to build a community of people interested in exploring the work of women indigenous scholars in the field of education.
Ellen Herman Receives ACLS Fellowship
Ellen HermanProfessor , UO Department of History, recently won a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship. Herman, a CSWS faculty affiliate, will research the topic, “Autism, Between Rights and Risks.”
Kate Mondloch Receives ACLS Fellowship
Kate MondlochUO assistant professor , Department of Art History, recently won a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship.
Lamia Karim Interviewed by Wall Street Journal Reporter for Her Expertise on Microfinance
March 8, 2011: Court Upholds Yunus Sacking from Grameen — Wall Street Journal (A high court in Bangladesh Tuesday upheld a central bank decision last week that Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus must resign as head of the microfinance bank he founded, intensifying a struggle between Mr. Yunus and the government of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
CSWS Associate Director Lamia Karim Interviewed on NPR
Listen to UO anthropology professor Lamia Karim on NPR's All Things Considered: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/134208312/nobel-winner-removed-from-bank-he-founded
Theresa May: Research Matters Winter 2011
Salmon, Women, and Rivers: Community-Based Performance Research by Theresa J. May, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon Department of Theatre Arts
Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WWII
Screening of “Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WWII” and a discussion with filmmaker LeAnn Erickson.
LeAnn Erickson is an associate professor, Department of Film and Media Arts, Temple University, and has been an independent video and filmmaker for more than 20 years.
In 1941, soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a secret military program was launched to recruit women to the war effort. But unlike the efforts to recruit Rosie to the factory, this search targeted female mathematicians who would become human “computers” for the U.S. military. From the bombing of Axis Europe to the assaults on Japanese strongholds, the women worked round-the-clock shifts creating ballistics tables that proved crucial to Allied success.
Fighting Impunity in National Courts: Human Rights & Transitional Justice in Latin America
Knight Library, Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus