“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.
News
“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
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
University of Oregon
Erb Memorial Union
1222 E. 13th Ave.a
“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
Six CSWS Faculty Affiliates among Those Chosen to Receive the Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards
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:
Publishing Roundtable in Latino/a, Latin American Studies, and Gender
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
Now Out! The Fembot Collective Focuses on Feminist Game Studies in Ada, Issue No. 2
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 Brings a Grand Challenges Explorations Grant to UO
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—Courtney Thorsson
Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels
a new book by Courtney Thorsson
From home to the museum—CSWS transfers McCosh painting
“Leaving the Lecture: The Faculty Wives” (1936) Anne McCosha
Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering—a new book edited by Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline Lundquist
Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering
edited by Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline Lundquist
Fordham University Press
November 2012
424 pages
Stephanie Jed: ‘Firmar la Mano’: Embodiment and Movement in the Work of Humanist Scholarship
Paulson Reading Room Knight Library, 2nd Floor North 15th & Kincaid Street University of Oregon
CSWS Women of Color Project Writing Workshop
Kerry Ann RockquemoreJane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall 1408 University St.
“Economies of Blood in East Africa: From Witchcraft to Transfusions,” Dr. Melissa Graboyes
Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
Deadline May 31