Month: September 2013

A Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin

[ November 8, 2013; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_16984" align="alignright" width="128"] Ursula K. Le Guin / photo by Dan Tuffs[/caption]

Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
1222 E. 13th Ave.
Eugene, OR, UO campus map
PDF of Event Schedule

Online pre-registration for the 40th Anniversary Celebration is now CLOSED.  Limited first come, first served seating will be available for this keynote event:

 Friday, Nov. 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m. – “A Conversation […]

How to Get Involved in Fembot

[ January 9, 2014; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Digital Scholarship Center
UO Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.

We’d like to invite you to participate in Fembot, an international network of feminist media scholars developed and managed here at the University of Oregon. In the past year, Fembot’s journal, Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, has engaged in (successful!) experiments to transform peer review […]

CSWS 40th Anniversary Airport Exhibit

[ September 1, 2013 to October 31, 2013. ] Eugene “Mahlon Sweet” Airport
First Level Baggage Claim Display Case
40th anniversary
CSWS Airport Exhibit Showcases 40 Years of Feminist Research, Activism, and Creativity
[caption id="attachment_17178" align="alignright" width="300"] CSWS airport exhibit / photo by Amber Andri[/caption]

During the fall, images, documents, artwork, publications, and other historical materials related to four decades of feminist research, teaching, activism, and creativity are on […]

How to Peer-Review Multimodal Content

[ January 17, 2014; 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ] Digital Scholarship Center
Knight Library
& via Google Hang-Out

The nature of peer review is changing, as authors experiment with new modes of knowledge production. On 17 January 2014, 1-3pm PST, the Fembot Collective will host a workshop that explores how we review and peer edit multimodal content.

The session will be led by Alex Juhasz (Pitzer College, issued […]

Renewing Feminisms: Radical Narratives, Fantasies and Futures in Media Studies

Sonia De La Cruz, PhD student, UO School of Journalism and Communication, is a contributor to Section 2, “Lived Feminists identities,” of the newly released book Renewing Feminisms: Radical Narratives, Fantasies and Futures in Media Studies, edited by Helen Thornham and Elke Weissmann (London, New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013).
Sonia De La Cruz recently co-produced with […]

Amanda Powell Receives NEA Translation Fellowship

Amanda Powell
Amanda Powell, senior lecturer in Spanish (Romance Languages) and a CSWS faculty affiliate, was awarded a FY2014 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship of $12,500 to support the translation into English of the groundbreaking novel El gato de sí mismo (working title: “Cat on His Own Behalf”) by Uriel Quesada (Costa Rica, […]