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Upcoming Events

Apr 8

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Info Session: Research Interest Groups (RIGs)

Graduate students and faculty are invited to apply for up to $1,000 in funding to organize CSWS Research Interest Groups (RIGs) for the 2026-27 academic year. An info session for prospective and returning RIG applicants will be held 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 8 in the CSWS Acker Room (340A Hendricks Hall).

Apr 08 - 4:00pm

Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

Apr 22

Salar Mameni Workshop: War and Ecology

Salar Mameni, associate professor of ethnic studies at UC Berkeley, will be leading a graduate student reading group on the theme of "war and ecology." Participants will read Mameni's book Terracene in connection with Munira Khayyat's book A Landscape of War and a short essay by the artist Jumanna Manna titled "Where Nature ends and Settlements Begin."

Registration deadline is 5 p.m. Monday, March 16 and is limited to first come, first served. Materials and lunch will be provided to registered participants.

Apr 22 - 12:00pm

Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

Apr 29

Noon Talk: Joyce Wei-Jo Chen

Joyce Wei-Jo Chen, Assistant Professor, School of Music and Dance, “Cherchez la femme: Music by Baroque Women Composers.”

Apr 29 - 12:00pm

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Mar 30, 2026

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Affiliates featured in media stories on empathy bias, NEH cuts

University of Oregon faculty and CSWS affiliates Mattie Burkert and Sara Hodges were interviewed recently for media stories related to their research.

Mar 18, 2026

Alisa Freedman teaches her Japanese Popular Culture class at the UO.

Alisa Freedman featured in CAS Connection

Japanese Popular Culture and the World is a well-attended class in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) taught by Alisa Freedman, professor of Japanese literature and culture and CSWS faculty research fellow. She created the class a decade ago to help students better understand the trends they love, their culture and social meanings, and the patterns of globalization they represent.

Mar 18, 2026

RIG info session set for April 8

Graduate students and faculty are invited to apply for up to $1,000 in funding to organize CSWS Research Interest Groups (RIGs) for the 2026-27 academic year. An info session for prospective and returning RIG applicants will be held 4–5 p.m. Wednesday, April 8 in the CSWS Acker Room (340A Hendricks Hall).

Mar 9, 2026

CSWS announces 2026-27 faculty research fellowships

CSWS is pleased to announce that Smadar Ben-Natan, assistant professor of global studies, and Hannah Thomas, assistant professor of dance, are the first recipients of a competitive new Faculty Research Fellowship that provides one course release for 2026-27 to pursue work on any aspect of the study of women and/or gender.

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Feminist Reading of Debt

Info Session: Research Interest Groups (RIGs)

Salar Mameni Workshop: War and Ecology

Noon Talk: Joyce Wei-Jo Chen

Affiliates featured in media stories on empathy bias, NEH cuts

Alisa Freedman featured in CAS Connection

RIG info session set for April 8

CSWS announces 2026-27 faculty research fellowships