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

Salmon, Women, and Rivers: Community-Based Performance Research by Theresa J. May, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon Department of Theatre Arts

150 Columbia University of Oregon

a In 1942, when computers were human and women were underestimated, a group of female mathematicians helped win a war and usher in the computer age.

Knight Library, Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus

UO Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St.

This lecture is cosponsored by Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St.

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Lillis Building, Room 111 UO campus Free and open to the public Film Presentation and Panel Discussion

UO Today #469: Dr. Beverly Wright

Browsing Room, Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO Campus

Barbara Sutton will talk about the findings and arguments in her recently published book, Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina (Rutgers 2010).

Introduction for Dr. Beverly Wright, Director, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice

EMU Ballroom 1222 E. 13th Ave. University of Oregon

Lorane Valley, Oregon—wine country

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330 Hendricks Hall Jane Grant Conference Room UO campus

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.

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.