Month: March 2014

2014 CSWS Jane Grant Fellowship and Faculty and Graduate Student Grant Awardees

Jenée Wilde
http://csws.uoregon.edu/recent-grant-awardees/
March 31, 2014—The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon recently awarded almost $80,000 in graduate student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender during the 2014-15 Academic Year. Research projects funded include a documentary film focused on the daily difficulties of an extended […]

Feminist Museum Blog

http://thefeministmuseum.wordpress.com/
This graffiti board was one of several items on display at the Feminist Museum.
CSWS helped support the Feminist Museum’s first pop-up exhibition, on display at LaVerne Krause Gallery in early March 2014.
The Feminist Museum blog site now includes a timelapse video of the installation, a video tour of the space, and photos of paintings, sculptures, […]

Now in print: “Gender, Sex, Love in Poetic Dialogues of the Early Twentieth Century” by Dorothee Ostmeier

A CSWS-supported book project by Dorothee Ostmeier, University of Oregon professor of German and Folklore, is now in print.
Here is a short summary of its content:
The book “Gender, Sex, Liebe in poetischen Dialogen des frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts” (Gender, Sex, Love in Poetic Dialogues of the Early Twentieth Century) puts actual poetic dialogues—poems exchanged between lovers […]

Road Scholars: Documentary Filmmaker Gabriela Martínez to present “Agents of Change”

[ March 18, 2015; 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] George S. Turnbull
Portland Center
Shirley Papé Forum
70 NW Couch St., Floor 3R
Portland, OR 97209

A CSWS Road Scholars Presentation
printable poster PDF

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Gabriela Martínez will present Agents of Change: A Legacy of Feminist Research, Teaching and Activism at the University of Oregon, a film she produced with Sonia De La Cruz. The film, developed for the […]

Karen Joy Fowler Wins PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize

Karen Joy Fowler / photo by Brett Hall Jones
Karen Joy Fowler Wins PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize – NYTimes.com.
April 2, 2014—Best work of fiction by an American in the past year! Congratulations to author Karen Joy Fowler, who will headline this year’s CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium. Fowler is the 2014 winner of the PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize.
Fowler’s […]

“Don’t Shout Too Loud” screening for grad students

[ March 13, 2015; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Digital Scholarship Ctr
Knight Library
Room 142

CSWS’s Globalization and Alterity Research Interest Group is pleased to invite UO graduate students to its inaugural event, a screening of the documentary Don’t Shout Too Loud this Friday, March 13 at 6PM in the Digital Scholarship Center: Knight Library Room 142 (see film synopsis below).

Don’t Shout Too Loud (2013, dir. […]