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2025 STEAM Fellows: Sophia Foerster Jan 26, 2026

Gender as Target: US 2024 Elections and Aftermath Jan 28, 2026

2024 CSWS Research Fellows Jan 28, 2026

CSWS Spotlight: Valerie Sahakian Jan 28, 2026

2025 STEAM Fellowship Research Focus: Sophia Foerster Jan 1, 2026

2025 STEAM Fellowship Impact: Sophia Foerster Jan 1, 2026

CSWS Spotlight: Stephanie Mastrostefano Nov 12, 2025

CSWS Spotlight: Jina Kim on 2024 Nobel Laureate Han Kang Sep 18, 2025

CSWS Spotlight: Michael Kuhn on 2023 Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin Sep 18, 2025

Interview with 2023 Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecturer, Dr. M Murphy Sep 8, 2025

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Upcoming Events

Feb 13

CSWS Open House & Dark Valentine Party

CSWS celebrates the concurrence of Friday the 13th and Valentine's Day with a "Dark Valentine" party!

Join us Feb. 13 from 3–5 p.m. in the CSWS Jane Grant Room for libations, speculations, ruminations, declarations, agitations, and other discourses indulged in by off-the-clock academics. Come dressed to kill in your best Dark Valentine interpretive outfit!

Seriously though, our open houses are a great time to meet like-minded folks across campus and catch up with old friends, with sweet treats sure to indulge your senses!

Feb 13 - 3:00pm

Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

Mar 4

Noon Talk: Nishat Parvez

Nishat Parvez, Doctoral Candidate, School of Journalism and Communication, “The Cha (Tea) Connection: Informal Political Space in Bangladesh.” What can a cup of tea tell us about democracy

Mar 04 - 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.” Description: "This talk explores how music by Baroque women composers comes to life through performance, teaching, and collaboration. Drawing on concerts I have hosted this year with Collegium Musicum and my own studio teaching, I reflect on programming works by composers such as Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, and Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre.

Apr 29 - 12:00pm

TBD

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Jan 28, 2026

Students and faculty mentors invited to Feb 18 info session

CSWS is hosting an Information Session for students an faculty mentors interested in applying for our newest research initiative—the CSWS Undergraduate STEAM Summer Fellowship.

Over summer, undergraduate fellows collaborate with University of Oregon faculty mentors to develop interdisciplinary research and creative projects that engage with STEAM fields—science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. Our STEAM fellows approach their inquiry with gender and intersectionality as an analytical framework.

Jan 26, 2026

Tien-Tien Yu spends a lot of time at the blackboard.

CSWS affiliate Tien-Tien Yu investigates dark matter

Research by University of Oregon particle physicist and CSWS affiliate Tien-Tien Yu is featured in Oregon News this week. Yu is investigating the mysterious material known as dark matter. She co-founded an experiment called SENSEI, which uses highly sensitive detectors similar to those found in digital cameras to look for dark matter candidates and interactions.

Jan 5, 2026

Bayerl featured in CHC Newsletter

Teaching secrets: Tapping into our innate curiosity and affinity for sharing coded messages, award-winning CHC instructor and CSWS Faculty Research Grant Fellow Corinne Bayerl leverages her research on cryptography to engage students and create community in the classroom.

Nov 17, 2025

New NW comics art exhibit curated by Kate Kelp-Stebbins

CSWS affiliate Kate Kelp-Stebbins, associate professor of English and director of comics and cartoon studies, has curated the grand opening exhibit for the new Northwest Museum of Comic Arts (NWMOCA) in Portland.

According to NWMOCA, the Pacific Northwest is recognized as one of the most vital comics hubs in the United States. Portland has one of the highest population of professional cartoonists per capita of any major city, and its status as a cartoon capital has grown steadily since the early 2000s.

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CSWS Open House & Dark Valentine Party

Noon Talk: Nishat Parvez

Noon Talk: Joyce Wei-Jo Chen

Students and faculty mentors invited to Feb 18 info session

CSWS affiliate Tien-Tien Yu investigates dark matter

Bayerl featured in CHC Newsletter

New NW comics art exhibit curated by Kate Kelp-Stebbins