Editor's Note: Six feminist scholars are among those who will receive OVPRI’s 2019 Faculty Research Awards. They are Sangita Gopal, Deborah Green, Jocelyn Hollander, Lamia Karim, Judith Raiskin, and Lesley Jo Weaver.
CSWS Operations Manager Dena Zaldúa recently accepted a position as the new Development Director for the MRG Foundation, which works for a more just and joyful Oregon by making grants to radical, cutting edge, and grassroots social justice groups across the state.
Fleeing rural violence: Mam women seeking gendered justice in Guatemala and the U.S.
by Lynn Stephen. Journal of Peasant Studies, 46(2): 229-257. January 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2018.1534836
Editor’s Note: Tannaz Farsi is a CSWS faculty affiliate. The following announcement comes from the UO College of Design website.
February 20, 2019—Ernesto Javier Martínez has been awarded a $5,000 NFA Artist Grant from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC). An associate professor in the UO Department of Ethnic Studies, Martínez is also a member of the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Advisory Board.
February 19, 2019—The Center for the Study of Women in Society selected four UO graduate students—Quinn Akina, Tara Keegan, Maggie Newton, and Carla Osorio-Veliz—as the recipients of our 2018-19 CSWS Travel Grants. All four will be presenting papers at conferences and will receive $300 each to support their travel expenses.
Room 240C McKenzie Hall UO campus
A public lecture by , Oxford Brookes University
"Inocencia y experiencia: infancias diferentes en Estiu 1993 (Clara Simó) y Pa negre (Agustí Villaronga)"
Public lecture and QA: Wednesday March 6, 2019 3:30-5pm at 240C McKenzie
Additionally, there will be a workshop with graduate students and faculty: Wednesday March 6, 2019 12pm-1pm at Friendly 109.
Room 240C McKenzie Hall
Public lecture with Q&A: Steven Marsh, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Cast Adrift: Zama as an Historical Film of Non-Arrival”
Public lecture and QA: Thursday March 7, 2019 3:30-5pm at 240C McKenzie
Workshop with graduate students and faculty: Thursday March 7, 2019 10am-11am at Friendly 109
Sponsored by Department of Romance Languages; cosponsored by CSWS and other UO units.
Luk Receives Matei Calinescu Prize from the Modern Language Association
182 Lillis 955 E. 13th Ave. UO campus
For full information about the symposium: https://library.uoregon.edu/women_media_symposium
Location: Browsing Room, Knight Library
Miriam Abelson returns to the University of Oregon for a colloquium, with a panel of commentators, to discuss her forthcoming book, Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America, due out in March from the University of Minnesota Press. This book is based on her PhD research.
Alder Building, Conference Room, 818 E. 15th Ave., UO campus
Book Celebration: Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan
this will include a panel discussion
330 Hendricks Hall, 1408 University St., UO campus
Laura Strait, a Ph.D. candidate in Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communication, will give a talk about her dissertation research, “Occupying a Third Place: Pro-Life Feminism, Legible Politics, and the Edge of Women’s Liberation,” on May 30, 2019, in the Jane Grant Conference Room at CSWS, 330 Hendricks Hall. Strait is the recipient of CSWS’s 2018-19 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship.
For full information, go to: https://gerscan.uoregon.edu/conferences/film-conference-2019/
PLC 348
Join the International Studies Community for a discussion at the INTL Lunch Talk Next Friday, May 10 @ 12 p.m. in PLC 348
The Uneven Impacts of Violence against Women Reforms in Guatemala: Intersecting Inequalities and the Patchwork State
Presented by Dr. Erin Beck
EMU 145: Crater Lake South. University of Oregon
New Directions in Black Feminist Studies Speaker Series
Ethnic Studies Speaker, Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture Speaker
Speaker: Dr. Erica Edwards (Rutgers) “Counterplanning from the Kitchen Table: June Jordan and the Domestic Literary Enterprise, 1979-1985”
Downtown Eugene Public Library
100 W. 10th (10th & Olive)
Eugene, OR 97401
Free & open to the public
A talk by the author of the acclaimed book What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape, examining sexual assault and the global discourse on rape from the perspective of a survivor, former counselor, and activist.
Redwood Room
Erb Memorial Union
1222 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus
The Center for the Study of Women in Society
invites you to an end-of-year celebration.
Wednesday, February 27th
4:30 - 6:00 PM
Straub Hall, Room 156
Free & open to the public
Sharon Luk, an assistant professor of ethnic studies, will present “The Life of Paper: Letters and Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity” on May 10 at noon, in Room 159, Prince Lucien Campbell Hall. Luk’s talk explores the “evolution of racism and confinement in California history,” including the early detention of Chinese migrants, the internment of Japanese Americans and the mass incarceration of African Americans.
Sponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center.
Robinson Theatre, University of Oregon
May 24, 25, 31. June 1, 7, 8 @ 7:30 p.m. June 2 @ 2:00 pm.
General Admission: $10 Adult | $8 Seniors 65+ | $8 UO Faculty/Staff | $8 Non-UO Students Free for University of Oregon students
UO geographer Yi Yu, the 2017-18 CSWS Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow, will give a presentation on her research titled “Prison of Love:” Exploitation and the promotion of “care ethics” for female care workers in China. The talk will take place on Wednesday, January 23 at 4 pm in the EMU Miller Room.
Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
“Convergence, Dissymmetry, Duplicity: Enactments of Queer of Color Critique in the Era of Administrative Violence”
Queer Studies Lecture: Chandan Reddy
CSWS Jane Grant Conference Room (330)
Hendricks Hall
Free & open to the public
Registration required: zambrana@uoregon.edu
Limited capacity: 15 people
“Anticapitalist Feminisms” Workshop
A Feminist Reading of Debt: A conversation with
Verónica Gago and Luci Cavallero
Knight Library Browsing Room
Mignon Moore, Professor of Sociology and Department Chair, Barnard College and Columbia University
CRATER LAKE ROOM SOUTH, EMU
Romance Languages: 2019 Spring Speaker Series “Misogyny”
ROOM CHANGE -- EMU 023 (Lease Crutcher Lewis Room), 12pm
Join us on Monday, May 20th for a much-anticipated talk by Dr. Jennifer C. Nash of Northwestern University! Dr. Nash's talk is the next installment in the 2018-2019 New Directions in Black Feminist Studies Speaker Series, organized by Dr. Shoniqua Roach.
Dr. Jennifer C. Nash (Northwestern)
Please be sure to download guidelines and read them before filling out your application.
The deadline for application for all 2019-20 faculty, staff, graduate, and undergraduate research grants is January 28, 2019, by 5 p.m.
Faculty/staff Research Grant Guidelines
Talk: What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape
Author: Sohaila Abdulali, writer/activist
Date and Time: Thursday, April 18 from 4-6 PM, Straub Hall 156, 1451 Onyx St., UO campus
SASS: a confidential advocate from Sexual Assault Support Services (SASS) will be present and the confidential/decompress room will be available in Straub Rm 231.
156 Straub Hall, 1451 Onyx St., UO campus
Free & open to the public
Justice and Reparation in Guatemala: Challenges and Possibilities
CLLAS Inaugural Lecture in Latinx and Latin American Studies
Must pre-register for these workshops. For full details, see also: https://csws.uoregon.edu/ally/
Trainer, Dena Zaldúa
CSWS Operations Manager
Feb. 11 10 am - 12:30 pm Allyship 101
Feb. 12 9:30 am - 12 pm Allyship 101
Feb. 12 12:30 pm - 3 pm Allyship 201
Editor’s note: CSWS is one of several UO units that awarded research funds to Prof. Ernesto Javier Martínez in support of this creative work.
A new book and film have a University of Oregon professor singing a happy tune.
