Month: December 2012

Celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month by Writing Women into Wikipedia!

Celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month by teaching and encouraging our community members to become Wikipedians and by adding women to Wikipedia’s content. Friday, March 8, 3-5 pm, Knight Library Browsing Room: Sarah Stierch, who trained as a…

“Conjugal Chains” — Michelle McKinley — Works-in-Progress Talk

Knight Law School Faculty Lounge UO campus Discussion of Michelle McKinley’s work-in-progress. McKinley is an associate professor of law, UO School of Law, and a member of the CSWS Advisory Board. Commentators are: Carlos Aguirre, professor of history, University of…

Fembot Launches Books Aren’t Dead, a New Monthly Podcast Interview

December 3, 2012—The Fembot Collective today launched its new monthly podcast interview, Books Aren’t Dead (BAD). BAD is Fembot’s series of monthly interviews with feminist authors of recent books on media, science, and technology. Fembot’s first BAD podcast is with…

“Bachelors, Boxing, and Boy-ology: American Catholicism in the ‘City of Men’, 1880-1930”

375 McKenzie 1101 Kincaid St. UO campus Professor Amy Koehlinger’s lecture derives from her forthcoming book, Rosaries and Rope Burns: Boxing and Manhood in American Catholicism, 1890-1970. Koehlinger holds a Ph.D in religious studies from Yale and an M.A. in…

“Athletes, Geeks, and Gamers: Exploring Gender and Professional E-sports”

Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. T.L. Taylor is an associate professor of  Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the co-author of Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method (with T. Boellstorff, B.…