Applications for Academic Year 2020-21 research grants, including the prestigious Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship, are due Jan. 27, 2020.

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.

The Center for the Study of Women in Society invites applications for grants that provide partial support for travel expenses for University of Oregon graduate students for a presentation at a conference or a workshop related to women and gender.

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.

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.

Noon talk, Jane Grant Room, Hendricks 330
Celeste Reeb, English, 2019-20 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow

Knight Library, Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St., UO campus

Lorwin Lectureship Series 

“Finding ‘Light born in darkness:’ The Urgency of Feminist Activism in These Times”

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/

Editor’s Note: Congratulations to CSWS faculty affiliates Krista Chronister, Ellen Hawley McWhirter, and Linda Forrest.

Erb Memorial Union EMU 230, Swindells Room

Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium

Speaker: Renisa Mawani, Professor, Sociology Chair, Law and Society Minor Program, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia

Gerlinger Alumni Lounge, Gerlinger Hall
1468 University Street, UO campus

Hendricks Hall 330
Jane Grant Conference Room
UO campus

CSWS Noon Talk
Subject: Women’s Mosque Movement of the 21st Century
Speaker: Dr. Irum Shiekh, Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies; Clark Honors College, University of Oregon

Congratulations to all faculty, and especially to our CSWS faculty affiliates and WOC affiliates who received promotions, with several earning tenure. They include:

Gerlinger Lounge, 1468 University St.

Lorwin Lectureship Series

Caroline Forell, Professor Emerita, UO School of Law, received the 2019 UO Law School Meritorious Service Award at law school graduation. 

Knight Library
Browsing Room

https://around.uoregon.edu/content/faculty-books-be-featured-uo-authors-book-talks-series

Around the O, October 17, 2019—Kristin Yarris will be the first faculty member featured in the inaugural “UO Authors, Book Talks” series that begins next month.

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.

Knight Library, Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus

Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium

“The When and Where of Our Talk:
The Shoals of Black and Native Feminisms”
Tiffany Lethabo King, Georgia State University

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

253 Straub Hall

“Making a Case for Ecofeminist Theology in Islam:
The Process and Application of Synthesizing Islam Feminist Longings and Ecological Concerns”

by Nayawiyyah U. Muhammad

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”

https://provost.uoregon.edu/2019-distinguished-teaching-awards#michelle-mckinley

Thomas F. Herman Award for Specialized Pedagogy in Undergraduate Legal Studies

Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity, by Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)

Joseph E. Lowndes is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oregon.

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.

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.

2019-20 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship

• Celeste Reeb, Department of English, “Closed Captioning: Reading Between the Lines.”

2019-20 Graduate Research Awards

Recipients of the 2019 Oregon Literary Fellowship include UO assistant professor Ana-Maurine Lara, a CSWS faculty affiliate, in the category of fiction. Oregon Literary Arts said their out-of-state judges spent several months evaluating the 400+ applications they received, and selected thirteen writers and two publishers to receive grants of $3,500 each.

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.

New journal article by Lynn Stephen

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

New Editorial Team Chosen for Hypatia