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Rhaisa Williams, “Screaming to Dream: Toni Morrison, Emmett Till, and Black Maternal Grief”
Caroline Forell receives the highest award given by the law school
Caroline Forell, Professor Emerita, UO School of Law, received the 2019 UO Law School Meritorious Service Award at law school graduation.
Kristin Yarris featured in the inaugural “UO Authors, Book Talks” series
Knight Library
Browsing Room
https://around.uoregon.edu/content/faculty-books-be-featured-uo-authors-book-talks-series
Around the O, October 17, 2019—Kristin Yarris will be the first faculty member featured in the inaugural “UO Authors, Book Talks” series that begins next month.
Celebrating Asian American Feminisms
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 L. King, “The When and Where of Our Talk: The Shoals of Black and Native Feminisms”
Knight Library, Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus
Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium
“The When and Where of Our Talk:
The Shoals of Black and Native Feminisms”
Tiffany Lethabo King, Georgia State University
CLLAS Poetry Slam & Teach-In with Melissa Lozada-Oliva
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
“Making a Case for Ecofeminist Theology in Islam” — Nayawiyyah U. Muhammad
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
A talk by Sangita Gopal, OHC Work-in-Progress Series
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”
Jan. 3 deadline for Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship

A 2019 Thomas F. Herman Award goes to Michelle McKinley
https://provost.uoregon.edu/2019-distinguished-teaching-awards#michelle-mckinley
Thomas F. Herman Award for Specialized Pedagogy in Undergraduate Legal Studies
“Producers, Parasites, Patriots” — a new book by Daniel HoSang & Joseph Lowndes
Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity, by Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)
Joseph E. Lowndes is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oregon.
Celeste Reeb Selected as the 2019-20 CSWS Jane Grant Fellow
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.
2019-20 CSWS Research Grant Awardees
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
Ana Lara receives a 2019 Oregon Literary Fellowship in fiction
Recipients of the 2019 Oregon Literary Fellowship include UO assistant professor Ana-Maurine Lara, a CSWS faculty affiliate, in the category of fiction. Oregon Literary Arts said their out-of-state judges spent several months evaluating the 400+ applications they received, and selected thirteen writers and two publishers to receive grants of $3,500 each.
The 2019 Faculty Research Awards go to 24 UO scholars
Editor's Note: Six feminist scholars are among those who will receive OVPRI’s 2019 Faculty Research Awards. They are Sangita Gopal, Deborah Green, Jocelyn Hollander, Lamia Karim, Judith Raiskin, and Lesley Jo Weaver.
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.
Mam women flee rural violence, seek gendered justice
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
Tannaz Farsi named 2019 Bonnie Bronson Fellow
Editor’s Note: Tannaz Farsi is a CSWS faculty affiliate. The following announcement comes from the UO College of Design website.
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.
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.
Alberto Mira: "Inocencia y experiencia: infancias diferentes en Estiu 1993 (Clara Simó) y Pa negre (Agustí Villaronga)"
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.
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.
Sharon Luk honored with book prize for “The Life of Paper”
Luk Receives Matei Calinescu Prize from the Modern Language Association
Mimi Nguyen: Of Gifts, Debts, and Threats
A public talk in conversation with UO's 2018-2019 Common Reading Book, The Best We Could Do
Samantha Irby, Keynote Speaker: Women in Media Symposium
182 Lillis 955 E. 13th Ave. UO campus
For full information about the symposium: https://library.uoregon.edu/women_media_symposium
Miriam Abelson: Book Colloquium
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.
Book Celebration: “Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics”
Alder Building, Conference Room, 818 E. 15th Ave., UO campus
Book Celebration: Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan
this will include a panel discussion
2018-19 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship winner Laura Strait to talk about her research
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.
International Conference on Feminism/Theory/Film
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
Erin Beck: The Uneven Impacts of Violence against Women Reforms in Guatemala
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
“Counterplanning from the Kitchen Table: June Jordan and the Domestic Literary Enterprise, 1979-1985”
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”
Author Sohaila Abdulali at Eugene Public Library
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.
CSWS End-of-Year Celebration
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.
CANCELLED due to weather: Walidah Imarisha returns to campus to talk about black history in Oregon
EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
“Why Aren’t There More Black People in Oregon?: A Hidden History”
an interactive lecture with Walidah Imarisha
Wednesday, February 27th
4:30 - 6:00 PM
Straub Hall, Room 156
Free & open to the public
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.
“The Home Planet," a play directed by Theresa May
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
