Collaboration Center Room 122 UO Knight Library

Please join CSWS as we live-stream HASTAC’s seminar “Everyday Racism, Everyday Homophobia” in the Collaboration Center in Knight Library (122).

Many Nations Longhouse 1630 Columbia Street UO campus

Screening w/ Q & A discussion 177 Lawrence Hall, 1190 Franklin Blvd. UO campus

School for Advanced Research (SAR)—Microfinance.

Microfinance: Assessing the Economic and Cultural Implications of Microfinance on Poverty from Cross-Cultural Perspectives

August 28, 2012—Rewriting the Journal: With faculty balking at the high price of traditional academic journals, can other digital publishing options get traction?

August 22, 2012—Brian Guy is one of seven University of Oregon students awarded a Fulbright scholarship for study abroad. A recipient of a 2012 CSWS Graduate Student Research Grant, Guy is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science. His research focuses on “ Code Violations: Men, Gender Inequality, and the Contentious Politics of Senegal’s Family Code.”

Audio recordings now available for the 2012 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium: MemoirFest, held Saturday, May 12, 2012 on the University of Oregon campus.

Two faculty win national award for anthology | Inside Oregon.

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The Center for the Study of Women in Society honors its faculty affiliates who are among those named as University of Oregon Award Winners 2011–12.

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CSWS Research Matters, Spring 2012

The Center for the Study of Women in Society honors two faculty affiliates who are among thirteen outstanding faculty receiving University of Oregon Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards AY 2012–13.

Shirley Marc

Retirement Party for 330 Hendricks Hall

May 9, 2012—Whether she is documenting the deadly effects of open-fire cooking and heating on children and women in Mayan homes in highland Guatemala, rescuing the history of indigenous women in Mexico, or writing about the geographical expansion and institutional growth of th

Meagan “Maggie” Evans, a PhD candidate in the UO Department of English, has been awarded a Fall 2012 Oregon Humanities Center (OHC) Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation “Sounding Silence: Twentieth-Century Feminist Poetic Innovation.”

UO graduate teaching fellow accepted into Chicago comics program

Erb Memorial Union (EMU), Fir Room, 1222 E. 13th Ave. UO campus, Eugene    FREE & open to the public Ruth Ozeki is a Canadian-American novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest.

May 11 panel & workshops: Eugene Public Library, 10th Ave. & Olive St. (100 W 10th Ave Eugene, OR 97401). Free and open to the public.

May 1, 2012—The United States Institute of Peace issued “Moving Forward with the Legal Empowerment of Women in Pakistan,”

CASCADE: UO College of Arts and Sciences.

Professor Carol Stabile's research looks at some of the female artists whose careers were all but obliterated after their names appeared in the notorious book, Red Channels.

Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora by Carol Silverman, professor and department head, UO Department of Anthropology (

Twentieth Century Colonialism and China: Localities, the Everyday, and the World edited by Bryna Goodman and David SG Goodman (Routledge, April 2012)

Publisher’s Synopsis

A Pedagogical Case Study of the Keynote-Speaker Controversy at Oregon State University’s Modern Sex Conference by Lacey Mamak, MLIS, February 2012

http://csws.uoregon.edu/sites/default/files/docs//Misc/TaorminoOSU_casestudydistro.pdf

Professor Michelle McKinley

February 21, 2012—University of Oregon associate professor Michelle McKinley, School of Law, has been awarded a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship.

From InsideOregon—Bryna Goodman, a professor of modern Chinese history and executive director of the University of Oregon’s Confucius Institute, has been offered a membership at the I

Microfinance: Assessing the Economic and Cultural Implications of Microfinance on Poverty from Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Winner of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society’s (CSWS) 2004 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship, Barbara Sutton is now an assistant professor of women’s studies at the University of Albany, SUNY, affiliated with the departments of sociology and Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S.

Sebastian Strangio: Is Microfinance Pushing The World’s Poorest Even Deeper Into Poverty? | The New Republic.

December 14, 2011—CSWS Associate Director Lamia Karim quoted in The New Republic:

“Why Oklahoma? All-Black Towns and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Indian Territory,” by Melissa H. Stuckey, Assistant Professor, UO Department of History

Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China by Eileen M. Otis (Stanford University Press, October 2011, 232 pp.)

Eileen Otis is an assistant professor in the University of Oregon Department of Sociology and a CSWS faculty affiliate.

“The Economy of Shame” (Women's Review of Books, Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, November/December 2011)