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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.
A Feminist Reading of Debt
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
Mignon Moore: “Towards a Sociocultural History of Black Lesbian Sexuality and Community”
Knight Library Browsing Room
Sally Miller Gearhart Lecture in Lesbian Studies
Mignon Moore, Professor of Sociology and Department Chair, Barnard College and Columbia University
Verónica Gago: Romance Languages Spring Speaker Series
CRATER LAKE ROOM SOUTH, EMU
Romance Languages: 2019 Spring Speaker Series “Misogyny”
Jennifer C. Nash: New Directions in Black Feminist Studies Speaker Series
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)
Judge Yassmin Barrios, “Justice and Reparation in Guatemala: Challenges and Possibilities”
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
Sohaila Abdulali: What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape
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.
CSWS Allyship Trainings
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
CSWS mourns the passing of Tasia Smith
Memorial for COE professor Tasia Smith set for Jan. 18 in EMU
New children's book, movie put a song in professor's heart
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.
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.
When it comes to gender identity, inclusion is more than using the right pronoun | Opinion
This opinion piece is written by , a scholar-in-residence at the Leeway Foundation, an anthropology PhD candidate at Northwestern University, and a predoctoral fellow in the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon.
When it comes to gender identity, inclusion is more than using the right pronoun | Opinion
Sharon Luk wins a book prize from ASA
Annual Awards Ceremony / American Studies Association
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).
What It Means To Be a Black Latina in Higher Education
What It Means To Be a Black Latina in Higher Education by , Associate Professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies posted in Hip Latina, October 20, 2018
“I have been asserting my blackness since I can remember.
CSWS Research Grant Workshop
330 Hendricks Hall Jane Grant Conference Rm 1408 University St.
Join CSWS director Michelle McKinley and operations manager Dena Zaldua as they discuss the grant application process for CSWS faculty and graduate student research grants, including the Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Inclusive Pedagogies Research Interest Group: invitation from a new CSWS RIG
Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall
We are pleased to invite you to the first meeting of the year of the Inclusive Pedagogies Research Interest Group supported by the Center for the Study of Women in Society.
Our first meeting will be Friday, Oct. 12, from 11-1 in the Jane Grant Conference Room at CSWS (Hendricks Hall Rm. 330).
Priscilla Yamin new head of WGSS
Congratulations to Priscilla Yamin, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, now the newly named department head of the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Upcoming showcase features Michelle McKinley and other Williams Fund Fellows
Erb Memorial Union Crater Lake North
Williams Fund Showcase will share innovations in teaching
from Around the O / October, 26, 2018—Every year, the Williams Fund recognizes faculty members from across campus for their insightful approaches to undergraduate teaching.
Yvonne Braun named associate vice provost for academic affairs
Editor’s Note: has served on the CSWS Advisory Board the past two years.
August 20, 2018—, head of the UO’s Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, has been selected for a half-time position as associate vice provost for academic affairs.
Braun, also an associate professor in the Department of International Studies, will continue her research and teaching half time, according to an announcement from the Office of the Provost.
Lesbian Oral History Project
New History for Future Generations
An article in the August 9th edition of Eugene Weekly highlights the work of the Lesbian Oral History Project being carried out by Linda Long, UO Libraries manuscripts librarian, and Judith Raiskin, associate professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Bernice Yeung: “The Invisible #MeToos: The fight to end sexual violence against America’s most vulnerable workers”
Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium. Bernice Yeung is a reporter for Reveal, covering race and gender. Her work examines issues related to violence against women, labor and employment, immigration, and environmental health.
Barbara Sutton “Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina”
This presentation is based on Sutton’s recently published book, Surviving State Terror. Based on oral testimonies of women who survived clandestine detention centers during a period of state terrorism in Argentina (1976–83), this book illuminates the gendered and embodied forms of trauma that women endured while also highlighting their historical and political agency.
Research project on gendered justice among those receiving OVPRI 2018 Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives awards
July 16, 2018—Lynn Stephen and Erin Beck, two members of the CSWS Américas Research Interest Group whose research on gender violence in Guatemala and the U.S. is on a yearly basis of support from CSWS, are among those whose research will receive 2018 Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives awards from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation.
Black Latina the Play
Hope Theatre Free admission
UO Latinx Strategies Group, UO Black Strategies Group, and UO Theatre Arts present:
Black Latina the Play on Friday, Oct 19th at 7:30pm at the Hope Theatre
BLACK LATINA IS one STORY OF BEING A BLACK LATINA IN THE U.S.
Performance followed by a conversation with writer and director Ms. Crystal Roman
Event information: blogs.uoregon.edu/blacklatina
New Directions in Black Feminist Studies: Mireille Miller-Young
Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 Gerlinger Lounge, 12 p.m.
Black Feminism, Labor, Sex Work
Welcome Reception for New Women Faculty on October 9
Gerlinger Lounge 1468 University St.
The Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs invite you to a reception to welcome new women faculty to campus.
New and current faculty at the University of Oregon are invited to attend this event to welcome new women faculty to campus, which will be an opportunity for participants to learn about one another’s research and work, and to inspire collaboration, community, and support across campus.
Patricia Matthew, “Written/Unwritten: On the Promise and Limits of Diversity and Inclusion”
Faculty, administrators, and graduate students have an opportunity to explore issues of faculty diversity with , the editor of Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) at 3:30 pm Wednesday, Oct. 17, in EMU 230, the Swindells room. Her lecture is titled “Written/Unwritten: On the Promise and Limits of Diversity and Inclusion.”
Producing Literature & Film for Queer Latinx Youth
EMU—145 Crater Lake South Room
A Film Discussion and Book Celebration
Join Ernesto Martínez and others for a discussion of the groundbreaking new bilingual queer Latinx children’s book When We Love Someone We Sing To Them, and get a “sneak peak” of our new short film La Serenata. Light refreshments provided.
Native Play Reading Series: "Salmon is Everything: Community-Based Theater on the Klamath Watershed"
Many Nations Longhouse 1630 Columbia Street, Eugene, OR
Joane Nagel: “Gender and Climate Change”
Joane Nagel, University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Anthropology Department at the University of Kansas, is a political and cultural sociologist whose work focuses on ethnicities, genders, and sexualities in the US and the global system and the militarization of gender, science, and global climate change.
DOLORES: Film Screening with director Peter Bratt
Redwood Auditorium Erb Memorial Union (EMU) 1222 E. 13th Ave.
Film Screening & Discussion with film director Peter Bratt: DOLORES
DOLORES HUERTA
Reimagining Sustainability • IAMCR 2018 - University of Oregon
CSWS Advisory Board member Gabriela Martínez is one of the co-organizers of this important media conference.
CSWS Advisory Board member publishes article on the Trump administration’s immigration policy
Editor’s Note: is a member of the CSWS Advisory Board.
Around the O / Professor publishes article on president's immigration policy
Panel at Sydney conference will honor CSWS founder Joan Acker
Two University of Oregon professors will participate this week in a conference panel in Sydney, Australia, that honors the memory of CSWS founder and long-time director Joan Acker.
Unrest in the Aisles, an OQ story about the research of Eileen Otis
Editor’s Note: Through CSWS Faculty Research Grants, CSWS has supported the research of faculty affiliate Eileen Otis.
From Oregon Quarterly—The first time UO sociologist Eileen Otis walked into a Walmart, she was far from home—Kunming, China, to be exact. She was immediately struck by how greatly the Chinese version of the massive retailer differed from its American counterpart.
