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

Dance and the Hollywood Latina

UO assistant professor of film and media studies and a CSWS affiliate

Now available from Rutgers University Press

From the Rutgers University Press website:

Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California a new book by Daniel Martinez HoSang

Now available from University of California Press

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.

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.

Cultural anthropologist Lamia Karim, author of Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt i

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.

“Teaching Feminist Technology Design" by Frances Bronet and Linda L. Layne is the title of a chapter (Ch 7: p. 179) in the newly released book Feminist Technology. Frances Bronet is dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon.

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.

Digital Scholars 2010 Collaboration Center, 22A (part of the Computer Lab suite) Erb Memorial Union (EMU), UO campus

“An Update: Are Women Getting All the Jobs?”

A preprint of this article, submitted to the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, can be viewed on Vitulli’s Women in Math website.

Sutton, Barbara. 2010. Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press).

News: Local | "Students examine nature of beauty" | The Register-Guard | Eugene, Oregon.

Click on the above link to read an article about a Women’s History Month presentation in a Eugene School District 4J middle school by UO graduate student Mickey Stellavato.  The talk was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society through its graduate Road Scholars Program.

Browsing Room, Knight Library A moderated talk and book celebration with authors Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt