50th anniversary

2024 Annual Review

Anita Hill: Reflections on the 2024 Lorwin Lecture
A Message from the CSWS Director, by Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies
Feminist Futures: Moments from the CSWS 50th Anniversary, by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
Past Lessons, Future Visions: CSWS Alumni Symposium, by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
Q&A: Bryant Taylor, by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English

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2024

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2024 Annual Review

Jul 9, 2024

CSWS seeks input on 50th impact survey

As we conclude this milestone anniversary year, CSWS is entering a period of strategic planning to build on our strengths and identify new opportunities.

Your steadfast support and participation during our 50th anniversary and beyond demonstrates the significance and impact of the Center for the University of Oregon and broader community.  We seek your input as we strategize what “feminist futures” can mean for the coming years and decades.

Apr 12, 2024

Anita Hill Sees Peril and Promise for Feminism

From Oregon Quarterly Spring 2024 Issue, by Matt Cooper.

Pictured are Emily Tanner-Smith, center, and Maria Schweer-Collins, right.

Nov 8, 2023

OVPRI features CSWS in Research News

The Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation (OVPRI) will be featuring the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) in its upcoming Pursuit newsletter. The article, "Gender Research Opens Pathways for Feminist Futures," will help to broaden awareness of the CSWS mission, anniversary events, and DuckFunder campaign to benefit undergraduate research and skill-building in the region.

Aug 11, 2023

Hypatia to host UO conference Sept. 6-9

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy is hosting its 40th anniversary conference at the University of Oregon, Sept. 6-9, 2023. Registration for the conference is free for UO community members.

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Upcoming Events

Jan 21

Wine Chat: “Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities” at Capitello Wines

Kristin Yarris, an associate professor of Global Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, will discuss her edited volume Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities: Engaged Ethnography.

This collection brings together the experiences and voices of anthropologists whose engaged work with im/migrant communities pushes the boundaries of ethnography toward a feminist, care-based, decolonial mode of ethnographic engagement called “accompaniment.”

Jan 21 - 5:30pm

Mar 4

O’Fallon Lecture: Candace Bond-Theriault at Knight Library Browsing Room

Candace Bond-Theriault, JD., LL.M. (she/her/hers) is a Black queer feminist lawyer, professor, writer, mother, and social justice advocate working at the intersections of law, policy, reproductive health rights, racial justice, LGBTQIA+ liberation, economic justice, and democracy reform. She is Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Howard University, and Associate Director for Movement Building at Dēmos: a think tank for the Racial Justice Movement. Bond-Theriault sits on the SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW!

Mar 04 - 4:00pm

May 14

Deepa Iyer: "Reimagining Ecosystems for Social Change" at Knight Library Browsing Room

Deepa Iyer is this year's Lorwin Lecturer. Over the course of two decades supporting social movements, Deepa Iyer has played many roles: weaver, frontline responder, storyteller, and guide. Currently, she is the Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at Building Movement Project where she builds projects, resources, and narratives around transformative solidarity practices. Iyer’s primary areas of expertise include post September 11th policies, civil rights, and Asian American/South Asian histories of community building.

May 14 - 4:00pm

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Nov 8, 2024

CSWS grants info session set for Nov. 18

If your research, scholarship, or creative work engages with the complexities of women’s lives or the complicated nature of intersectional gender identities and inequalities, then you should apply for research funding from the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS).

As the 2025-26 grant funding cycle rapidly approaches, CSWS will be hosting an information session and a grant writing workshop to support graduate students, faculty, and staff through the funding application process.

Oct 9, 2024

In Malayalam soft-porn cinema of the 1990s, female leads were cast as madakarani (sex-siren), a label that symbolized both their narrative role and professional distinction as second-tier contract laborers.

Oct. 25 talk looks at soft-porn in South Asian cinema

Darshana Sreedhar Mini, assistant professor of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be giving a talk Friday, Oct. 25, on "Madakarani as Screen Pleasure: Scandal and Soft-porn Imaginary." The free lecture will be held 3–5 p.m. in 145 Straub Hall, 1451 Onyx St, at the University of Oregon, Eugene.

Oct 9, 2024

Moira Fradinger is author of Antigonas: Writing from Latin America.

Oct. 18 talk to explore a decolonial reading of Antigonas

Yale Professor Moira Fradinger will be presenting "A Decolonial Reading: The Case of Latin American Antígonas" on Friday, October 18, 2024. The event will be held 3–5 p.m. in 182 Lillis Hall, 955 E 13th Ave, University of Oregon.

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50th anniversary

2024 Annual Review

CSWS seeks input on 50th impact survey

Anita Hill Sees Peril and Promise for Feminism

OVPRI features CSWS in Research News

Hypatia to host UO conference Sept. 6-9

Wine Chat: “Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities” at Capitello Wines

O’Fallon Lecture: Candace Bond-Theriault at Knight Library Browsing Room

Deepa Iyer: "Reimagining Ecosystems for Social Change" at Knight Library Browsing Room

CSWS grants info session set for Nov. 18

Oct. 25 talk looks at soft-porn in South Asian cinema

Oct. 18 talk to explore a decolonial reading of Antigonas