UO Today #473:

Lamia Karim

UO Today week of August 8, 2011:

Dianne Dugaw’s Memoirs of Scandalous Women (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), a five-volume annotated edition of life-writings by 18th-century British women, surveys the period from 1740 to 1808 in six narratives that span social class from subaltern to aristocratic milieus.

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.

June 13, 2011—The Christian Science Monitor: Bollywood's global push.

Editor’s Update: Homefront Heroines reached its funding goal on June 29

“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.

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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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

Jane Grant Rm 330 Hendricks 1408 University St.

“Technology, Gender and Education for Development: The One Laptop Per Child Project in Ghana”

UO Today #478: Theresa May and

Gordon Bettles

330 Hendricks Hall Jane Grant Room UO campus

Alumni Lounge Gerlinger Hall 1468 University St.

“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

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Sheryl WuDunn coauthored the influential book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.

Slideshow photographs by Jack Liu.

http://www.dailyemerald.com/2011/05/17/salmon-is-everything-sheds-light-on-the-fish-kill-that-affected-native-american-life/

Alejandra Garcia helps facilitate a focus group session with microfinance clients in Bolivia.

Hendricks Hall Frazier Hearth Rm UO campus

Gerlinger Hall Alumni Lounge 1468 University UO campus map

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

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.

Reproductive Justice on the Ballot by Daniel HoSang, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Departments of Ethnic Studies and Political Science

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus

Dangerous Dependencies

Guest presenters include:

Erb Memorial Union Ballroom 1222 E. 13th Ave., University of Oregon A FREE EVENT

The Play: May 20 - June 4, 2011 Miller Theatre Complex University of Oregon; Eugene, OR UO Ticket office: (541) 346-4363

Jane Grant Room 330 Hendricks Hall UO campus

115 Lawrence Hall 1190 Franklin Blvd. UO campus

FITF Works-in-Progress Series

“Modernist Cuisine for Moderns”

Sponsored by the Food in the Field Research Interest Group, UO Center for the Study of Women in Society

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

115 Lawrence Hall 1190 Franklin Blvd. UO campus

McKenzie Hall 229 1101 Kincaid St. UO campus

Erb Memorial Union Alsea/Coquille Rms UO campus

Hope Theatre 1109 Old Campus Lane University of Oregon campus

A pre-play lecture for Salmon Is Everything

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

Professor , 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

UO assistant professor , Department of Art History, recently won a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship.

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.

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