Month: January 2013

Road Scholar Talk: Carol Stabile, “Black and White and Red All Over: Women Writers and the Television Blacklist”

[ April 3, 2013; 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_16182" align="alignright" width="360"] Carol Stabile / 2013[/caption]

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Baker Downtown Center
975 High St., Eugene, ORa

A CSWS Road Scholar Community Presentation

In June 1950, a group calling itself American Business Consultants published Red Channels: A Report on Communist Influence in Broadcasting, a publication that came to be known as the “bible” of the blacklist. Although […]

Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, Seeks Essays on Feminist Science Ficiton

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Issue 3: Feminist Science Fiction
The third issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology seeks essays on feminist science fiction (as discussed below). We welcome unpublished work from scholars of any discipline and background, including collaborative, nontraditional, or multimodal approaches that can […]

Road Scholar Talk: Alisa Freedman, “Modernism & Fashion in Jazz-Age Tokyo”

[ March 14, 2013; 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm. ] Willamalane Adult Activity Center
215 West C St
Springfield, Oregon
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A CSWS Road Scholar Community Presentation
Modernism and Fashion: Dressing for Work and Play in Jazz-Age Tokyo
My talk examines how women’s fashion defined Jazz-Age Tokyo, representing larger social desires and fears about rapid national modernization. In the 1920s and 1930s, Tokyo emerged as a modern metropolis, […]

SOJC Professor Leslie Steeves Wins a 2013 UO Martin Luther King, Jr., Award

H. Leslie Steeves is one of seven winners of the UO’s 2013 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Award. Steeves, professor  and associate dean of Graduate Affairs and Research, UO School of Journalism and Communication, is also a long-time CSWS faculty affiliate. CSWS has helped fund her case study of the One Laptop Per Child Project […]