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)

Surrency prize to McKinley, "Fractional Freedoms".

November 15, 2011

UO Knight Library, Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St.

Graduate Student Center 111 Susan Campbell Hall UO campus

The Queer RIG Roundtable Series presents:

University of Oregon School of Law Symposium

Symposium website

Carol A. Stabile, “Women and the Broadcast Blacklist,” Communication Currents: A Publication of the National Communication Association (Volume 6 , Issue 5 - October 2011)

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St.

Tina Boscha, instructor of composition in the University of Oregon Department of English, recently took matters into her own hands and self-published her novel as an e-book.

Identity Complex: Making the Case for Multiplicity

Michael Hames-García, Professor, University of Oregon Department of Ethnic Studies

University of Minnesota Press (August 2011)

Mollitude from BlueDot Productions on Vimeo.

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.