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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.

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"Teaching Queer" by Stacy White

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).

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Priscilla Yamin

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.

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Judith Raiskin and Linda Long look at a video camera.

Lesbian Oral History Project to become part of UO collections

September 10, 2018 (reprinted from Around the O)—The history of Eugene’s lesbian community from the 1960s through the 1990s will be kept alive through video interviews and archival documents of more than 140 women taking part in the UO’s Lesbian Oral History project.

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Michelle McKinley

Upcoming showcase features Michelle McKinley and other Williams Fund Fellows

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. An upcoming showcase will feature a panel of Williams Fund fellows and instructional grant recipients who will share insights and takeaways from their experience enhancing undergraduate education at the UO.

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Yvonne Braun

Yvonne Braun named associate vice provost for academic affairs

August 20, 2018— Yvonne Braun, 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.

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Judith Raiskin and Linda Long collect the stories of the local lesbian community.

Lesbian Oral History Project

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. CSWS awarded a 2019-19 CSWS Faculty Research Grant to Linda Long in support of this project.

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Barbara Sutton

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.

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Lynn Stephen and Erin Beck

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.

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Black Latina the Play Flyer

Black Latina the Play

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.

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Mireille Miller-Young

New Directions in Black Feminist Studies: Mireille Miller-Young

Mireille Miller-Young, PhD, is associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research explores race, gender and sexuality in visual culture and sex industries in the United States. Her book, A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women and Pornography (Duke University Press, 2014) examines African American women’s representation and labor in pornographic media.

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A group of faculty at the new faculty event.

Welcome Reception for New Women Faculty on October 9

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.

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Patricia Matthew

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.”

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Producing Literature & Film for Queer Latinx Youth Launch Poster

Producing Literature & Film for Queer Latinx Youth

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.

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Joane Nagel

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.

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DOLORES Film poster.

DOLORES: Film Screening with director Peter Bratt

Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers unions with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century—and she continues the fight to this day, at 87.

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Reimagining Sustainability • IAMCR 2018 - University of Oregon

The 44th Annual International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference at the University of Oregon will take place from June 20-24, 2018.The conference theme is “Reimagining Sustainability: Communication and Media Research in a Changing World,” which will not only direct attention to environmental and ecological issues, but also address a broader notion of sustainability, which includes social inclusion and equity.IAMCR is the preeminent worldwide professional organization in the field of media and communication research, with members from over 100 countries.

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Dyana Mason

CSWS Advisory Board member publishes article on the Trump administration’s immigration policy

June 15, 2018— Dyana Mason, an assistant professor of planning, public policy and management, recently authored an article for The Conversation on the Trump administration’s effect on immigrant children. The article focuses on the financial and emotional hardships that have come with Trump’s recent immigration regulation changes. Mason opens the article by writing, “The Trump administration is deliberately taking immigrant children away from their parents.”

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Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

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. The panel, titled "Traveling with Joan: A Panel of Global Feminist Scholarship in Honor of Joan Acker," will take place on the final day of the 10th Biennial Gender, Work & Organisation Conference 2018, to be held at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, June 13 – 16.

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Gabriela Martínez

2018 Faculty Promotions & Tenure

The University of Oregon is putting on the 2018 Faculty Promotion Celebration on Tuesday, June 5, to honor all faculty who were promoted and/or received tenure during academic year 2018.  Congratulations to all those being honored.

We would like to especially acknowledge former CSWS associate director Gabriela Martinez, who was promoted to full professor in the School of Journalism and Communication, and former CSWS advisory board member , who was promoted to full professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.

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OVPRI 2018-19 Faculty Research Award recipients include numerous CSWS faculty affiliates & grant awardees

Congratulations to the many CSWS faculty affiliates named as recipients of 2018-19 OVPRI Faculty Research Awards. These include Mary Wood (English), Kristin Yarris (International Studies), Lynn Stephen (Anthropology), Laura Pulido (Ethnic Studies), Kate Mondloch (History of Art & Architecture), Ernesto Martinez (Ethnic Studies), Ana-Maurine Lara (Anthropology), Alai-Reyes Santos (Ethnic Studies), Mai-Lin Cheng (Clark Honors College), Marjorie Celona (Creative Writing), Mayra Bottaro (Romance Languages), and Dare Baldwin (Psychology). Many have been recipients of CSWS Faculty Research Awards in recent years.

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Spring speakers series: “Thinking Authenticity” poster.

Spring speakers series: “Thinking Authenticity”

“Reading Aime Cesaire in the Era of Black Lives Matter,” with Frieda Ekotto; “The Face on Film: Made and Unmade," with Noa Steimatsky; Professor Ignacio Sánchez Prado, “The Invention of ‘Authentic’ Mexican Food: Rick Bayless, Diana Kennedy, Enrique Olvera”

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The Williams Fellows Anita Chari, Claudia Holguin and Michelle McKinley

CSWS director Michelle McKinley named Williams Fellow with two other faculty

Around the O, March 30, 2018—Anita Chari, Claudia Holguin and Michelle McKinley were honored by the Williams Council for their dedication and commitment to innovative undergraduate education. McKinley is the Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law at the UO School of Law and one of the driving forces behind the law school’s undergraduate legal studies program. She is also the director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

In Memory: Ursula K. Le Guin

January 23, 2018—Like so many others, we are saddened to learn of the passing on Monday of the great writer Ursula K. Le Guin. The news came through a breaking news announcement in the New York Times.

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Regina Kunzel

Queer History Lecture features Princeton scholar Regina Kunzel

Regina Kunzel holds the Doris Stevens Chair and is professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. Kunzel’s work focuses on histories of sexuality in carceral spaces, and on the twined histories of sexual deviance and normalcy.   Kunzel’s most recent book, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008), received many awards including the Lambda Literary Award, the American Historical Association’s John Boswell Prize, and the MLA’s Alan Bray Memorial Book Award.

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Priscilla Ovalle

Priscilla Ovalle — “From Black Hair to Black Panther: Collaborative Scholarship and Thinking through Cinematic Blackness”

Join Priscilla Peña Ovalle (UO Cinema Studies) and guest (LMU School of Film and Television) as they discuss their new book projects in a talk titled “From Black Hair to Black Panther: Collaborative Scholarship and Thinking through Cinematic Blackness.” At this CSWS “Works-in-Progress/Author Meets Reader” event, Aldridge and Ovalle will share how production and organizing experience informs their thinking and approaches to collaborative scholarship. Ovalle will then present “Kim Kimble’s Celebrity Hair/Style,” followed by Aldridge's presentation of “Black Panther to Breitbart.”

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