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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.

Knight Law Center Room 110 UO campus

330 Hendricks Hall Jane Grant Room UO campus

Maggie Evans is a graduate student in the UO Department of English.

CSWS Associate Director Lamia Karim's upcoming book has made it to the

Have you seen our new CSWS blog, Women’s Rights in a Global World?

Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road by Alisa Freedman (Stanford University Press, 2010)

Business Girls & Two-Job Wives: Emerging Media Stereotypes of Employed Women by Jane Marcellus (Hampton Press, October 2010)

Wall of Black Marker bar, El Paso, Texas

Condon Hall Room 360 UO campus

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 http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a929749074~frm=titlelink

Saturday McKenzie Hall, Room 375 UO campus

A workshop talk by Barbara Sato, Professor of History at Seikei University in Japan

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus

Please join us for the Ethnic Studies Inaugural Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture

Leona Tyler Conference Room, Graduate School 125 Chapman Hall

Knight Law Center Room 184 UO campus

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