Braun and Raiskin earn mentorship awards for work with students
Editor's Note: This article was published in Around the O on June 5, 2020. Yvonne Braun and Judith Raiskin are CSWS faculty affiliates.
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Ninth Circuit Court hears appeal in Freyd's gender discrimination case
Three years ago, professor Jennifer Freyd sued the University of Oregon for violating federal law by paying her less than her male colleagues in the Psychology Department. In May 2019, a federal judge granted the University’s request to dismiss the case without trial.
Research productivity and gender in the time of COVID
How has the COVID-19 crisis impacted research productivity?
Caribbean Women Healers project completes first phase
On April 22, the Caribbean Women Healers: Decolonizing Knowledge in AfroIndigenous Traditions Digital Humanities Project launched the first phase of their website to an enthusiastic online audience. The project's social media reached around 5,000 people in one day and RSVPs to the Zoom launched after only five days of publicity were in the hundreds and from all over the world, exceeding all expectations.
News, awards, book and film publications needed for 2020 CSWS Annual Review
CSWS is now collecting materials for our 2020 edition of the Annual Review.
Goodman receives NHC fellowship
Professor Bryna Goodman, history, has been awarded a residential fellowship grant from the National Humanities Center (NHC) in North Carolina for her book project, Finance and Fortune: Economics, Calculation, and the Fate of the Chinese Republic.
UO Research Awards go to 23 faculty scholars
NOTE: This story was originally published April 20, 2020, in Around the O. CSWS congratulates awardees who are also our Faculty Affiliates and/or Research Grant recipients!
UO researchers and scholars examining everything from international indigenous activism to creative aging to the creation of original electroacoustic music have received 2020 Faculty Research Awards.
CSWS announces research grant awardees for AY 2020-21
The Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) is pleased to announce awards of more than $86,000 for scholarship, research, and creative work on women and gender for AY 2020-21.
CSWS to update website, seeks feedback
How do you get information about CSWS news and events? What changes would make the website more useful to you?
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.
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.
Escallón awarded NEH fellowship
Assistant professor Maria Fernanda Escallón, anthropology, was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to complete her book project Excluded: Black Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Diversity in Colombia.
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.
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’
Editor’s Note: Ernesto Martínez is a member of the CSWS Advisory Board. His creative work has been supported in part through CSWS Faculty Research Grants and CSWS Special Project funding.
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).
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
330 Hendricks Hall
Jane Grant Conference Rm
1408 University St.
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.
CSWS to host research grant info session Dec. 3
University of Oregon faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to attend an information session about research grants and fellowships available from the Center for the Study of Women in Society.
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 (one vote per 24 hours). You could also watch the film at this site: https://www.imagen.org/vote/short-films/
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
Gerlinger Alumni Lounge, Gerlinger Hall
1468 University Street, UO 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.