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
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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
Conference: “Alternative Sovereignties: Decolonization Through Indigenous Vision and Struggle”
University of Oregon May 8 - 10
The Alternative Sovereignties: Decolonization through Indigenous Vision and Struggle conference will be held May 8 – 10 at the Many Nations Longhouse and the EMU.
Kimberly Theidon — “Speaking of Silences: Gender, Violence and Reparations in Peru”
204 Condon Hall 1321 Kincaid University of Oregon
Public Lecture by Libby Larsen, Composer
Libby LarsenCollier House Living Room 1170 E. 13th Ave. UO campus
, composer and co-founder of American Composers Forum, will give a public lecture on her work and experience as one of America’s most performed living composers.
A concert by Alberto Carrión to celebrate Julia de Burgos centenary
Gerlinger Lounge
1468 University St.
UO campus
2014 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “Family, Animal, Story”
Eugene Public Library 100 W. 10th St. (10th & Olive)
NWWS Reading: 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award winner Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowler / photo by Brett Hall JonesEugene Public Library 100 W. 10th St. (10th & Olive) Eugene, OR Full details
Kerns awarded grant examining architecture of women’s health centers | Department of Architecture
Source: Kerns awarded grant examining architecture of women’s health centers | Department of Architecture
Wednesday, May 1, 2013—Architecture Adjunct Instructor Jolie Kerns has been awarded a $6,000 research grant from the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society for her project "Interrogating Public Space: Architecture of Women's Health Centers."
NWWS Panel “Cheek by Jowl: Re-Writing the Human-Animal Relationship”
Gerlinger Lounge
1468 University St.
UO campus
Full Schedule
Free & open to the public
CSWS Noon Talk: “Global Feminisms in Media Development,” with Gabriela Martínez
Hendricks Hall 330
Jane Grant Room
1408 University St., UO campus
Juan Carlos Areán: “Transforming Men to End Violence Against Women”
Lane Community College Downtown Center 101 W. 10th Ave., Eugene, OR
Shannon Elizabeth Bell | Alumna Earns Distinguished Dissertation Honorable Mention
This story was published originally on the website of the University of Oregon Graduate School.
2013-14 Lorwin Lecture
Lawyer Wendy Murphy, JD, delivers the 2014 Lorwin Lecture on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This keynote lecture focuses on “civil rights violence” and the overt and covert subjugation of violence against women as something other than a civil rights harm. Wendy Murphy specializes in the representation of crime victims, women and children. Her book, And Justice For Some: An Exposé of the Lawyers and Judges Who Let Dangerous Criminals Go Free, was published in 2007.
Fembot Conference: Multiplying Standpoints and Participatory Feminism
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White Stag Building 70 NW Couch St. Portland, Oregon 97209
Prominent UO historian among those who filed an amicus brief in US Supreme Court case that contests the validity of the Defense of Marriage Act
Recent blog entries on the websites for Inside Higher Ed and the American Historical Association provide details of an
WikiWomen Event Media Archives | Fembot Collective
WikiWomen Event Media Archives | Fembot Collective
Fembot WikiWomen Event
Fembot coordinated an effort to write women into Wikipedia. Archived live streams are available on http://fembotcollective.orgThe CSWS Fembot Project produces the Fembot website.
“Modern Girls on the Go” — new book edited by Alisa Freedman now available
Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan, Edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano (Stanford University Press, March 2013)
Writing Women into Wikipedia
Allen Hall
Room 221
1020 University St.
UO campus
Eugene, OR
In celebration of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month
Dr. Cheryl Mattingly — “Hope, Suffering and the Play of Possible Selves: A Narrative Perspective on the Good Life”
Gerlinger Lounge
1468 University St.
UO campus
“How to Get Your Latino/Latin American Studies Academic Book Published” with Gisela Fosado, Duke University Press
Erb Memorial Union (EMU) Walnut Room 1222 E. 13th Ave.
Gisela Fosado, Duke University Press Editor for Gender, Latin American and Latino Studies
The Feminist Museum presents “Object ↔ Subject: Femininity in Contemporary Culture”
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LaVerne Krause Gallery Lawrence Hall 1190 Franklin Blvd.
A pop-up exhibition from March 10-14, 2014. Opening reception: March 10, 5 to 7 p.m.
Charise Cheney: CSWS Research Matters | Winter 2013
Charise Cheney“Brown v. Board of Education,” by , Associate Professor, University of Oregon, Department of Ethnic Studies