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Burkert's London Stage Datatbase project featured in CAS Connection

Excerpted from June 9 CAS Connection, story by Jenny Brooks — Going to the theater in London in the 18th century was a good time—and a transformative time. Playhouses across the city were bursting with activity as crowd-pleasing favorites from the heyday of Shakespeare mixed with slapstick entertainments and boundary-pushing artistic experimentation. These shows drew lively, often raucous audiences from a mix of social and economic classes that seldom crossed paths elsewhere. 

New CSWS fellowship offers a course release for research on gender

For AY 2026-27, the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) is launching a new research fellowship that provides University of Oregon faculty with one course release for a term of reduced or no teaching to pursue work on any aspect of the study of women and/or gender.

Guillemin named as 'Emerging Inventor'

From Oregon NewsCSWS affiliate Karen Guillemin, Biology, has been named to the National Academy of Inventors, a designation that recognizes visionaries and innovators whose technologies brought, or aspire to bring, a real impact on society.

Faith Barter explores antebellum Black authorship in new book

A new book by CSWS affiliate Faith Barter, assistant professor of English at the UO, explores Black writers as architects of legal possibility in the antebellum South. Her book, Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature (2025) was published by University of North Carolina Press. She received a 2019-20 CSWS Faculty Research Grant for this project.

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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.

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
Publication Year
2024

UO researchers to study the health effects of homelessness

Editor's note: Seed funding for Weaver's research was provided by a CSWS faculty research grant. 

From Around the O—As cities of all sizes struggle with rising homelessness, researchers at the University of Oregon are studying the link between stress and long-term health conditions among people without housing and how it drives health inequity.

2023 Annual Review

  • Women’s Visual Protest Movements in Iran: A Conversation with Parichehr Kazemi by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
  • Haunting Ecologies by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English
  • An Invitation from the Director of CSWS by Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies
  • Reflections on Gender, Sexuality, and Power
  • New Faculty Reception
Publication Year
2023