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CSWS postpones spring 2020 events
Given the serious nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) has cancelled its Spring 2020 lecture series. Events will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21.
“While we have thoroughly enjoyed hosting our speakers for the Lorwin lectures, and our Race, Ethnicities and Inequalities colloquium, we have postponed these and other lectures until the fall,” said CSWS Director Michelle McKinley.
Research Matters dives into big data projects, management services at UO
After a three-year hiatus, Research Matters is back in print with a fresh approach to the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s mission to create, fund, share, and support research on gender.
Rather than sharing the end results CSWS faculty affiliate research, the new issue aims to support faculty and graduate students at the beginning of their projects by looking into the challenges and opportunities of “Diving into Big Data.”
Alicia Garza talk postponed, new date TBA
Note: This event will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21.
“Alicia Garza is an Oakland-based organizer, writer, public speaker and freedom dreamer who is currently the Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United States.
Postponed: Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Queer Studies Lecture
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes lists his main research interests as queer/LGBT Hispanic Caribbean (Cuban, Dominican, Puerto Rican) studies, U.S. Latina/o, and Latin American literary, cultural, and performance studies.
In his first book, Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), he analyzes portrayals of migration, sexual diversity, and gender nonconformity in Puerto Rican cultural productions (such as cartoons, dance theater, film, literature, and performance art) both on the island and in the United States.
Postponed: John Collins, "Recent Crises in Representation and Racialized Mediation"
Since the mid-1990s, John Collins has conducted ethnographic research on UNESCO world heritage sites, urban restoration programs, and their relationships to national histories and racial politics in Brazil. This gave rise to his first book, Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian 'Racial Democracy.'
Postponed: Christina Sharpe, “Black. Still. Life.”
Christina Sharpe, one of the most important contemporary scholars in Black Diaspora Thought and Cultures, is professor of humanities at York University.
Celona awarded Oregon Literary Fellowship
Assistant professor Marjorie Celona, creative writing, has received an Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship for her fiction writing. The award was part of the 2020 Oregon Literary Fellowships Program, which helps Oregon writers initiate, develop, or complete literary projects.
Petition to support Freyd’s pay inequity complaint
Faculty and staff are invited to add their signatures to an open letter in support of psychology professor Jennifer Freyd's pay equity complaint against the University of Oregon.
Professor Dare Baldwin, Department of Psychology and Clark Honors College, posted the letter as a petition on change.org. “We are hoping to garner a groundswell of support within UO and across the county,” she said.
Podcast features Diana Garvin's research on fascism and misogyny in the Italian far-right
A recent podcast highlights the research of Diana Garvin, Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Studies in the Department of Romance Languages at the UO.
CSWS Jane Grant Fellow Celeste Reeb publishes research article
Celeste Reeb, a PhD candidate in the Department of English and the 2019-20 CSWS Jane Grant Fellowship awardee, published an article related to her dissertation research in the summer issue of Disability Studies Quarterly.
Amicus Brief sign-ons invited for Jennifer Freyd’s challenge of unequal pay & gender-based pay discrimination
Equal Rights Advocates and Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein invite you to join with fellow women’s, civil rights, and worker justice organizations in signing onto an amicus brief that will be filed in support of Plaintiff Jennifer Freyd in Freyd v. University of Oregon, seeking reversal of the attached Order of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon granting summary judgment on her Equal Pay Act, Title VII, and related state law claims.
Librarian Tatiana Bryant coauthors article based on CSWS-supported research
Tatiana Bryant, then at UO Libraries, received a 2017-18 CSWS Faculty Grant Award as well as a CSWS Travel grant in support of research for the project “Gender Performance and Identity in Librarianship.”
She recently coauthored an article that is the first in a series based on the study this grant supported. Bryant is now an assistant professor, University Libraries, at Adelphi University.
Karla Holloway: “From Fact to Fiction: A Colored Life in Letters”
Karla FC Holloway, James B. Duke Professor Emerita of English at Duke University, will visit the University of Oregon campus March 3 - 5. Her featured lecture is titled “From Fact to Fiction: A Colored Life in Letters.” She will participate also in a series of other related events. Holloway is the author of the upcoming novel, A Death in Harlem, which will be the subject of a reading group sponsored by CSWS in the fall. Another CSWS-sponsored reading group will focus on Holloway’s book Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literatures.
Ernesto Martínez wins Imagen Award for short film ‘La Serenata’
Ernesto Javier Martínez, an associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of Oregon, won a prestigious Imagen Award for a short film he wrote, “La Serenata.”
Feb. 13: Annie Isabel Fukushima, “Witnessing Violence in These Migratory Times”
Dr. Annie Isabel Fukushima is an assistant professor in the Ethnic Studies Division of the School for Cultural & Social Transformation at University of Utah. Prior to joining the faculty in Utah, she earned her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies at University of California, Berkeley and was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University (2013 - 2015).
Feb. 17: Tina Campt, “The New Black Gaze”
Tina M. Campt is Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University. She is a founding member of the Practicing Refusal Collective, and the author of three books: Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich (2004), Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe (2012), and Listening to Images (2017).
Javed to talk about honor killings in Pakistan March 9
In Pakistan, approximately 500 men and women are killed every year in the name of “honor.” In this talk, economics PhD student Amna Javed aims to improve our understanding of honor-based crimes by examining the effects of income shocks on honor killings. She received a CSWS Graduate Student Research Grant for this project.
Jane Nam to discuss Radical Korean Feminism at Jan. 30 noon talk
On Jan. 30, Philosophy graduate student Jane Nam will present a noon talk entitled, “Escape the Corset: Radical Korean Feminism.” Nam received a 2019-20 graduate student research award for her work from the Center for the Study of Women in Society.
Women Voters: Race, Gender, and Dynamism in U.S. Presidential Elections
On Wednesday, Feb. 5, Jane Junn, University of Southern California, will be giving a talk on "Women Voters: Race, Gender, and Dynamism in U.S. Presidential Elections" from 6:30–8 p.m. in the William W. Knight Law Center, Room 175, 1515 Agate Street, Eugene.
CSWS Research Grant Info Session
Join CSWS Director Michelle McKinley as she discusses the grant application process for CSWS faculty and graduate student research grants, including the Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship.
Light refreshments will be provided.
CSWS to host research grant info session Dec. 3
On Tuesday, Dec. 3, join CSWS Director Michelle McKinley as she discusses the application process for all research grants, including the prestigious Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship. The info session will be held 4–5:30 p.m. in the Jane Grant Conference Room, 330 Hendricks Hall.
Moans, Groans, Slurping: The Politics of Captioning Pornography
In this talk, English PhD student Celeste Reeb examines the Pornhub CC archive to understand how it helps to construct and normalize certain pleasures over others while offering ways to challenge dominant discourses of pleasure. Captioning is an important factor in pleasure which requires rethinking who watches porn and where pleasure is found. This talk uses feminist disability frameworks to examine CC for pornographic media and investigates the labor performed by female actresses, the way pleasure is derived from online pornography, the rhetoric surrounding disability and pleasure, and what bodies are presumed to experience pleasure.
Sylvanna M. Falcón, “Finding ‘Light born in darkness:’ The Urgency of Feminist Activism in These Times”
Dr. Sylvanna M. Falcón is an associate professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and the director of the Research Center for the Americas at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching interests are in human rights activism, transnational feminism, racism and antiracism, and transitional justice in Peru.
Ernesto Martínez’s short film a finalist
Ernesto Martínez’s short film, La Serenata, is a finalist in the Imagen Foundation Short Film and Web Series Awards.
You can support this film by voting below and inviting friends and family to vote as well!
Renisa Mawani: Across Oceans of Law
In 1914 the S.S. Komagata Maru left Hong Kong for Vancouver carrying 376 Punjabi migrants. Chartered by railway contractor Gurdit Singh, the ship and its passengers were denied entry into Canada and eventually deported to Calcutta. In Across Oceans of Law (Duke University Press, 2018), Renisa Mawani retells this well-known story of the Komagata Maru.
Welcome Reception for New Women Faculty
The Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Office of the Provost invite you to a reception to welcome new women faculty to campus.
Irum Shiekh: CSWS Noon Talk
Dr. Irum Shiekh teaches in the UO Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and the Clark Honors College about Muslims living in the U.S., Islam and gender, and Diasporic films of Arabs/Muslims. Her book, Detained Without Cause: Muslim Stories of Detention and Deportation after 9/11, provides oral histories of individuals wrongfully detained in connection with the September 11 attacks. From 2009 to 2011, Dr. Shiekh was a Fulbright scholar in Palestine, where she completed research about arts and resistance and developed a course about Palestinian Cinema. Later, she used her research to produce a photo exhibit titled Palestinians Envision Life Without Occupation.
Priscilla Ovalle named 2019 President-Elect for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
CSWS joins the Department of Cinema Studies in congratulating Priscilla Peña Ovalle, Cinema Studies associate professor and department head, as the 2019 President-Elect for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the leading scholarly organization in the United States dedicated to promoting a broad understanding of film, television, and related media through research and teaching grounded in the contemporary humanities tradi
2019 Faculty Promotions
Congratulations to all faculty, and especially to our CSWS faculty affiliates and WOC affiliates who received promotions, with several earning tenure.
Mathematics professor emerita Marie Vitulli continues to distinguish herself
Marie Vitulli, professor emerita of mathematics, was honored in January as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics, during the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore. The AWM Fellows Program was established “to recognize individuals who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to the support and advancement of women in the mathematical sciences, consistent with the AWM mission: ‘to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences.’”
Rhaisa Williams, “Screaming to Dream: Toni Morrison, Emmett Till, and Black Maternal Grief”
Rhaisa Kameela Williams is assistant professor of Theater and Performance Studies in the Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis. Williams’ research uses mixed-archive methods—spanning across literature, family history, archives, and public policy—to focus on the intersections of blackness, motherhood, affect, and disquieting modes of freedom.
Celebrating Asian American Feminisms
CSWS and the Women of Color Project joined the Department of Ethnic Studies in celebrating Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics, a new anthology edited by Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan. The panel discussion and book celebration took place May 22, 2019, in the Alder Building Conference Room near the UO campus.
Tiffany L. King, “The When and Where of Our Talk: The Shoals of Black and Native Feminisms”
Tiffany Lethabo King is an assistant professor in the Institute for Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. King's research interests include Black Studies, Indigenous Studies, Diaspora Studies, and gender and sexuality. King is the author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies published by Duke University Press this fall.
CLLAS Poetry Slam & Teach-In with Melissa Lozada-Oliva
A teach-in and poetry slam on the UO campus
CLLAS Teach-In: Language and Poetry as Resistance,
October 9, 10am-11am, Knight Library Browsing Room
CLLAS Latinx Heritage Month Poetry Slam by Melissa Lozada-Oliva,
October 9, 4pm-5pm, 240C McKenzie Hall
“Making a Case for Ecofeminist Theology in Islam” — Nayawiyyah U. Muhammad
Nayawiyyah Muhammad is a professor in the department of Religious Studies at California State University, Long Beach and a Ph.D. candidate in the Women’s Studies in Religion program at Claremont Graduate University. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Religious Studies, with an emphasis on Ancient and Medieval Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
A talk by Sangita Gopal, OHC Work-in-Progress Series
OHC Conference Room, 159 PLC
2019-20 Faculty Research Fellow
Sangita Gopal, Cinema Studies
“Coalition as Possession: Gender, Ecology, and the
Indian New Wave Cinema”
Open to the public. Early arrival suggested due to limited seating. Brown bag lunches welcome.
A 2019 Thomas F. Herman Award goes to Michelle McKinley
In recognition of her work creating collaborative and inclusive learning environments across campus, McKinley is a 2019 recipient of the Herman Award for Specialized Pedagogy.
Celeste Reeb Selected as the 2019-20 CSWS Jane Grant Fellow
A committee of feminist faculty members unanimously selected Celeste Reeb as the recipient of the 2019-20 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship, awarded annually by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society to support a PhD candidate already advanced to candidacy in writing their dissertation on women and gender.
2019-20 CSWS Research Grant Awardees
CSWS is pleased to announce the recipients of our 2019-20 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship and our research grants for graduate students, faculty, and staff.