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Dena Zaldúa

CSWS Operations Manager Dena Zaldúa takes new post

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.

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Mam women flee rural violence, seek gendered justice

Dr. Stephen’s uses the concept of gendered embodied structures of violence as the analytical framework for illustrating how in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala, historical and contemporary structures and processes of violence which center the normalization of multiple forms of implied or actual physical and sexual violence against women (and often other men and children) continue to undermine efforts to strengthen women's rights and provide access to safety and justice for women.

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Priscilla Peña Ovalle

Priscilla Peña Ovalle named 2019 president-elect for SCMS

March 21 – Priscilla Peña Ovalle, associate professor and department head in the Department of Cinema Studies, has been chosen as the 2019 president-elect for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. SCMS seeks to further media study within higher education and serves as a resource.

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Ernesto Martínez

NALAC awards artist grant to Ernesto Martínez

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.

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Four UO graduate students awarded CSWS Travel Grants

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.

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Steven Marsh: “Cast Adrift: Zama as an Historical Film of Non-Arrival”

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.

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Sharon Luk

Sharon Luk honored with book prize for “The Life of Paper”

Sharon Luk, assistant professor in the UO Department of Ethnic Studies, has been awarded the Matei Calinescu Prize for her book, The Life of Paper: Letters and Poetics of Living Beyond Capacity. The award is given by the Modern Language Association, which works to strengthen the study and teaching of languages and literature.

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The Hypatia team

CSWS welcomes Hypatia team

After an extensive search, a new editorial team for Hypatia has been enthusiastically and unanimously accepted by the search committee and the newly reconstructed nonprofit board. The new coeditors are: Bonnie J. Mann, Erin McKenna, Camisha Russell, and Rocío Zambrana, all of the University of Oregon. Sarah LaChance Adams from the University of Wisconsin – Superior, will take on the role of managing editor. Their five-year tenure will begin January 1, 2019.

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Mimi Nguyen

Mimi Nguyen: Of Gifts, Debts, and Threats

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.

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Samantha Irby

Samantha Irby, Keynote Speaker: Women in Media Symposium

Samantha Irby is a popular comedian and author who writes a blog called Bitches Gotta Eat. Her first book, Meaty, follows Irby through failed relationships, taco feasts, struggles with Crohn’s disease, poverty, blackness and body image. Meaty is currently being adapted for television. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life (2017) quickly cracked the Top 10 on the New York Times Nonfiction Bestseller list.

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Miriam Abelson: Book Colloquium

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.

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Laura Strait

2018-19 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship winner Laura Strait to talk about her research

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.

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International Conference on Feminism/Theory/Film

This interdisciplinary conference focuses on the rich intersections and critical conversations between feminist film theory and experimental filmmaking in the German-speaking world and beyond since the 1970s. Scholars from a variety of disciplines will trace the emergence of an intersectional feminist activism as it finds expression in experimental films that reflect on the imbrication of issues of gender, sexuality, race, and subjectivity with new technologies, media, and their global infrastructures.

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Erin Beck: The Uneven Impacts of Violence against Women Reforms in Guatemala

This talk explores the passage of such agenda-setting reforms and analyzes their impacts. It demonstrates that the reforms' impacts are unevenly felt, with those who are already the most marginalized benefiting the least. It explains these uneven effects by drawing on a historical intersectional analysis of gender violence and an an analysis of state-society relations at their local instantiations where reforms do (or do not) affect state officials’ behavior and individuals’ expectations and experiences of the “reformed” state.

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CSWS End-of-Year Celebration

The Center for the Study of Women in Society invites you to an end-of-year celebration. Come to close out the academic year, congratulate our newly promoted colleagues, new books and prizes, and wish bon voyage to those departing for other shores. Light refreshments will be served.

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Poster for Sharon Luk's book talk.

Sharon Luk: OHC Books-in-Print Talk

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.

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Poster for “The Home Planet," a play directed by Theresa May.

“The Home Planet," a play directed by Theresa May

It has been 50 years since humans landed on the Moon. Maybe you remember? In 1969, when astronauts looked back at the Earth from space, they fell in love with “the Blue Planet,” and the photos they sent back changed us all. This collaborative effort on stage exalts the sustaining beauty of that historic moment and the call of our own moment in history.

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Queer Studies Lecture: Chandan Reddy

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.

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Lani Teves

Native American Studies Colloquium: book release celebration for Lani Teves

The Department of Ethnic Studies and Native Studies Program invite you to a special edition of the Native American Studies Colloquium Series to celebrate the publication of Lani Teves’ new book, Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance. This event will take place at the Many Nations Longhouse, January 25th, 2019, from 12:00-1:30 pm. Lunch will be served.

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Raka Ray

Canceled: Raka Ray: 2019 Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture

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.

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"A Feminist Reading of Debt" workshop promotional graphic.

A Feminist Reading of Debt

This workshop is designed to engage faculty and students in the discussion of Verónica Gago and Luci Cavallero’s co-authored book Una lectura feminista de la deuda [A Feminist Reading of Debt] (Fundación Rosa Luxemburgo, 2019; forthcoming in English with Pluto Press). The book provides a theoretical framework to track the impact of debt on women from a novel feminist lens.

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Sohaila Abdulali: What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape

Sohaila Abdulali was born in Mumbai and moved to the United States with her family when she was a teenager. Since then, she has lived in both countries. She has a BA from Brandeis University in economics and sociology and an MA from Stanford University in communication. Her undergraduate thesis dealt with the socioeconomics of rape in India. This talk is also being sponsored by the Eugene Public Library and will take place there on Wednesday, April 17 from 6-8 PM.

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New children's book, movie put a song in professor's heart

December 10, 2018 (from Around the O)—Ernesto Javier Martínez, an associate professor of ethnic studies at the UO, is a scholar of queer ethnic literature and the author of “When We Love Someone We Sing to Them.” It’s a children’s book about a young Mexican-American boy who is learning from his musician father why serenading is such an important tradition in their family.

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Scholar V Varun Chaudhry

Scholar V Varun Chaudhry joins the CSWS staff as research assistant

CSWS welcomes scholar to the staff as pro tem research assistant.

Chaudhry is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University. His work focuses on the institutionalization of “transgender” in nonprofit and funding agencies through ethnographic research in Philadelphia, PA.

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V Varun Chaudhry

When it comes to gender identity, inclusion is more than using the right pronoun | Opinion

“I arrived at the Leeway Foundation office in Center City Philadelphia in the summer of 2016 at age 24. I'm a South Asian trans-identified scholar-in-training and I was looking for a site to conduct my dissertation research. At that point, all I had were research questions about how organizations, specifically foundations and philanthropic entities, support and fund trans and gender-nonconforming people. In every other workspace environment I had ever been in, I served as the de facto brown trans spokesperson amongst coworkers who were predominantly white and cisgender — that is, those who identify with the gender they were assigned at birth.”

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Sharon Luk

Sharon Luk wins a book prize from ASA

October 23, 2018—“The American Studies Association has awarded the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize to Sharon Luk, The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity (University of California Press).

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New Directions in Black Feminist Studies: A Speaker Series Poster

New Directions in Black Feminist Studies: A Speaker Series

Mireille Miller-Young UC Santa Barbara Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 Gerlinger Lounge, 12 p.m. Black Feminism, Labor, Sex Work
Emily A. Owens Brown University Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018 EMU 145–Crater Lake South, 12 p.m. Sexuality, Slavery, Affect
Ethnic Studies Speaker, Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture Erica R. Edwards Rutgers Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019 EMU 145–Crater Lake South, 12 p.m. Feminism, Internationalism, State Power
Jennifer C. Nash Northwestern Thursday, Apr. 18, 2019 EMU 145–Crater Lake South, 12 p.m. Black Feminism, Intersectionality, Contemporary Feminist Politics

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