Too Sensitive? Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
By Isabella Clark, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology
CSWS Annual Review
Gender Roles in the Testimonial Narratives of Andean Women
by Gloria Macedo-Janto, PhD Student, Department of Romance Languages
The Rise of Witch-Hunting & Witch-Killing in Assam, India
by Daizi Hazarika, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
During the winter of 2023, with the help of a CSWS graduate student research award, I had an opportunity to visit Assam, India, for two months to conduct dissertation research on witch-hunting and witch-killing. During my field trip to Assam, I conducted research in Guwahati (the capital city of Assam) and a village called Dabli, among the Rabha community (a tribal community of Assam) in the Goalpara subdivision of this region. In Guwahati, I interacted with several government officials regarding their perceptions of the current-day witch-hunting in Assam and the steps taken by the Assamese government to combat this practice.
The Songs of Clara Schumann
by Stephen Rodgers, Professor and Edmund A. Cykler Chair in Music, School of Music and Dance
Airing It Out: Women’s Role in Korean Radio Broadcasting
By Jina Kim, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Literatures
A Multi-Stakeholder Analysis of Women’s Houselessness in Eugene, Oregon
by Lesley Jo Weaver, Associate Professor, Department of Global Studies, and Mackenzie VanLaar, PhD, Department of Anthropology
Publishing Books of Women’s Stories: Advice from Women in Japanese Studies
by Alisa Freedman, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures
An Invitation from the Director of CSWS
by Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema Studies
CSWS turns 50 in AY 2023-24! We invite you to a thrilling year of events themed “Feminist Futures” that look to the future while commemorating the past. We will celebrate the cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship on gender and intersectionality that the Center has sponsored and disseminated for five decades, and showcase feminist collaborations across the arts, humanities, sciences, and technology that imagine feminist futures to negotiate the challenges of the next fifty.
Haunting Ecologies
During spring term, CSWS presented Haunting Ecologies: The Past, Present, and Future of Feminist and Indigenous Approaches to Forest Fire. This two-week event series included the 2023 Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture as well as a panel discussion on “Native Ecologies.” Both events were presented in conjunction with Ghost Forest—a photography exhibit by Eugene artist Sarah Grew, featuring Jon Bellona’s sound installation Wildfire.
Women’s Visual Protest Movements in Iran: A Conversation with Parichehr Kazemi
Parichehr Kazemi is a political science PhD candidate at the University of Oregon. She received a 2019 Graduate Student Research Award from CSWS and was the Center’s 2022 Jane Grant Dissertation fellow. Kazemi researches women’s resistance efforts, social media, and social movements across the Middle East, focusing on the ways that women use social media images as a means of protest in Iran. As a CSWS Advisory Board member last year, she drafted the Center’s statement declaring solidarity with demonstrators in Iran who protested the tragic death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iranian morality police.