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
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).
EMU Ballroom 1222 E. 13th Ave. University of Oregon
Lorane Valley, Oregon—wine countrya
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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.
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, TexasCondon 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 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 LatinaUO 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
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
