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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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

Thi Bui’s graphic memoir The Best We Could Do movingly tells personal and political histories of the war in Vietnam and its aftermath for her family of refugees. Since this Cold War exodus, however, the United States has increasingly enacted restrictions for granting asylum to populations fleeing wars in those places to which the United States pledged freedom (often through sanction, bomb, and drone). Join us for a public talk in conversation with UO's 2018-2019 Common Reading Book, The Best We Could Do.

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/

Critical Intersections in the Practice and Theorization of Experimental Filmmaking since the 1970s

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

CSWS invites you to join us to learn -- or refresh your knowledge of — how to be a part of The Resistance with TWO days of trainings!

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.

Walidah Imarisha describes herself as an historian at heart, reporter by (w)right, and rebel by reason. Winner of a 2017 Oregon Book Award for creative nonfiction for Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption, she also has edited two anthologies, authored a poetry collection, and is currently working on an Oregon Black history book.

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.

Join us for Chandan Reddy's “Convergence, Dissymmetry, Duplicity: Enactments of Queer of Color Critique in the Era of Administrative Violence” Queer Studies Lecture. Chandan Reddy is an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington.

Prof. Lani Teves’ book release, Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance

Knight Library      Browsing Room      1501 Kincaid St.    UO campus

Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium

“The Sequelae of Black Life in Brazil and the US: Violence, Gender, Space and Time” , Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology University of Texas at Austin

Raka Ray is professor of sociology and South and Southeast Asia studies, and the present Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her AB from Bryn Mawr College, and her PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Professor Ray’s areas of specialization are gender and feminist theory, domination and inequality, the emerging middle classes, and social movements.

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

Sally Miller Gearhart Lecture in Lesbian Studies

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”