Month: August 2011

Mollitude on Vimeo: Molly Barth, flute

Mollitude from BlueDot Productions on Vimeo.
Molly Barth
Grammy-Award winning flutist Molly Barth performs “Mollitude” from the Beta Collide album ‘Psst!Psst!’
The flute piece was composed in 2006 by Frederic Rzewski.
Filmed and produced by Bluedot Productions at the Oregon Coast Heceta Head light and innkeepers house, Spring 2011.
A special thanks to the Oregon Arts Commission, University of Oregon School […]

UO Today #473: Lamia Karim

UO Today #473: Lamia Karim
Lamia Karim
UO Today week of August 8, 2011:
Lamia Karim, Anthropology and Associate Director of CSWS, discusses her forthcoming book Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh, the first feminist critique of the much-lauded microcredit process in Bangladesh. She describes the adverse effects of the microcredit system. Watch it online.
Eugene […]

Consciousness Rising: Unearthing the Tangled Roots of the University’s Feminist Organizations

 
Open publication
The Siren (Summer 2011, published by the ASUO Women’s Center)—an article by Brandy Ota and Jennifer Busby
Brandy Ota is the director of the Associated Students at the University of Oregon (ASUO) Women‘s Center. Jennifer Busby is editor-in-chief of The Siren.

Memoirs of Scandalous Women: edited by Dianne Dugaw

Dianne Dugaw’s Memoirs of Scandalous Women (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), a five-volume annotated edition of life-writings by 18th-century British women, surveys the period from 1740 to 1808 in six narratives that span social class from subaltern to aristocratic milieus. These courtesans and disguised, cross-dressing soldiers, active in Britain, Europe, India, and the Americas used […]