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Dealing Head-on with Issues of Environmental Racism
Introduction for Dr. Beverly Wright, Director, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
by Margaret L. Paris, Philip H. Knight Dean and Professor, University of Oregon School of Law“The Perilous Consequences of Public Policy Decisions: Weathering the Storm of Natural and Man-made Disasters in the Gulf”—Dr. Beverly Wright
EMU Ballroom 1222 E. 13th Ave. University of Oregon
Honoring Excellence in Research and Teaching
The Center for the Study of Women in Society offers congratulations to our CSWS Affiliates in the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences who have won research, teaching, or community outreach awards from March 2010 through February 15, 2011. Recipients were honored February 15, 2011 at a reception in their honor in Gerlinger Lounge on the UO campus.
Three CSWS Associates Receive 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards
January 2011—Michael Hames-Garcia, professor and head of the Ethnic Studies Department; Janis Weeks, professor of biology; and Tina Gutierez-Schmich, a professional development specialist in the Center on Diversity and Community, are among the winners of the 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards at the University of Oregon.
CSWS Blog: Women's Rights in a Global World
Have you seen our new CSWS blog, Women’s Rights in a Global World?
Book Release: Daniel HoSang
Gerlinger Alumni Lounge 1468 University St. University of Oregon campus
Book release event for Daniel HoSang’s new work, Racial Propositions. Refreshments will be served.
The S-Word: Discourse, Stereotypes, and the American Indian Woman
The S-Word: Discourse, Stereotypes, and the American Indian Woman http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a929749074~frm=titlelink
Modern Girl Culture and Working-Class Women in Interwar Japan
Saturday McKenzie Hall, Room 375 UO campus
A workshop talk by Barbara Sato, Professor of History at Seikei University in Japan
The Mobile Family: Protecting the Children of Same-Sex Parents Within and Across State Borders
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus
Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture—Scylla, Charybdis, and “Path to Citizenship”
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus
Please join us for the Ethnic Studies Inaugural Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture
Feminist Publishing in the Digital Age: Gender, New Media & Technology Symposium
Knight Law Center, Room 184 University of Oregon campus 3 p.m.–6 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturday
Gender, New Media and Technology Symposium: Feminist Publishing in the Digital Age
Racial Propositions—Daniel HoSang
Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California a new book by Daniel Martinez HoSang
Now available from University of California Press
2010-11 Lorwin Lecture Series
Women's Rights in a Global World
CSWS Initiates the Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties with a Series of Lectures, Workshops, and Symposia Focused on Women’s Rights.
In Memoriam: Peggy Pascoe
, whose research and teaching focused on the history of race, gender and sexuality, was the Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History and professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. With family and friends at her side, she died from ovarian cancer on July 23, 2010, at home in Eugene, Oregon.
UO Anthropology Professor to Be Interviewed on The Jefferson Exchange
Cultural anthropologist Lamia Karim, author of Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt i
Celebrating Research by Women of Color
Place: Gerlinger Alumni Lounge
This event will honor University of Oregon women of color faculty whose articles and books were published from 2008 - 2010.
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Women of Color Project.
Men, Women, Muxe: Mexico’s Third Gender
CSWS Executive Committee member Lynn Stephen recently appeared on the CNN program “Men, Women, Muxe” in the series “The World’s Untold Stories.” Stephen—director of the University of Oregon’s Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) and distinguished professor of anthropology and ethnic studies—provided background and commentary on the Muxes of Juchitán, Oaxaca. The Muxes are a Zapotec indigenous third gender who have a long history in southern Mexico. Stephen has conducted research on gender and sexuality in southern Mexico and published an article in 2002 on this topic.