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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Friday, Oct. 19, 2018 Gerlinger Lounge, 12 p.m.
Black Feminism, Labor, Sex Work
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.
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.
Many Nations Longhouse 1630 Columbia Street, Eugene, OR
Redwood Auditorium Erb Memorial Union (EMU) 1222 E. 13th Ave.
Film Screening & Discussion with film director Peter Bratt: DOLORES
DOLORES HUERTA
CSWS Advisory Board member Gabriela Martínez is one of the co-organizers of this important media conference.
Editor’s Note: is a member of the CSWS Advisory Board.
Around the O / Professor publishes article on president's immigration policy
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.
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.
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.
April 9, 2018—The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon recently awarded more than $67,000 in graduate student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender during the 2018-19 academic year. The research being funded includes projects focused in Senegal, Ghana, the Caribbean, and across the country.
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).
May 2 : Knight Library, Browsing Room May 16 & May 23: Willamette 100 Free & open to the public
Spring speakers series: “Thinking Authenticity”
May 16, 2018 Willamette 100 “Reading Aime Cesaire in the Era of Black Lives Matter,” with Frieda Ekotto, University of Michigan
May 23, 2018 Willamette 100 “The Face on Film: Made and Unmade," with Noa Steimatsky, ACLS / Berkeley U
Three University of Oregon faculty members have been awarded 2018-19 Williams Fellowships
April 3, 2018—CSWS advisory board member Andrea P. Herrera was interviewed as a sociologist and parent for one of New York Magazine's current cover stories: “It's a Theyby! Raising the Gender Creative Child.” Her comments appear toward the middle of the article and beyond.
Herrera is a doctoral candidate in the UO Department of Sociology and and an instructor in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
From Around the O
March 22, 2018—UO anthropology professor Lynn Stephen, a renowned scholar of Latin American studies, has been awarded a prestigious Philip H. Knight Chair in the College of Arts and Sciences.
March 6, 2018—Kohnjehr Woman, a book of poetry by , has been nominated as a finalist for the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Awards.
Lara, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon and a CSWS faculty affiliate, is an award-winning poet and fiction writer whose novels include Erzulie’s Skirt (RedBone Press 2006) and When the Sun Once Again Sang to the People (KRK Ediciones 2011).
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.
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Free event Limited seating
“All too many people and communities are named defective and deficient in a thousand different ways. Those words are weapons used to create ‘bad’ and disposable body-minds. Through poetry, storytelling, and history, Eli Clare unpacks the power of ‘defective,’ exploring how it is rooted in ableism and wielded by white supremacy to strengthen racism.”
McKenzie Hall Room 375 1101 Kincaid St. UO Campus
