Month: April 2014

Johanna Crane: Who is Global Health For? Tenacious Assumptions in Global Health Science

Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. A Public Talk Johanna Crane is a medical anthropologist with a background in English whose research brings together history, science, technological studies, medical humanities, bioethics, and global health. Her book Scrambling for Africa:…

CSWS Noon Talk: Jenée Wilde, “Bridging Humanities and Social Science Methods in PhD Research”

Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall, 1408 University St. printable flyer PDF Jenée Wilde discusses the challenges and rewards of mixing ethnographic research methods with approaches to literary and visual media in her interdisciplinary project “Speculative Fictions, Bisexual Lives:…

UO study: Abusive relationships damage girls’ educational pursuits

UO study: Abusive relationships damage girls’ educational pursuits | Around the O. CSWS faculty affiliate Krista M. Chronister, associate professor in the UO Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services in the College of Education, led this study. Chronister’s research…

Give a Laptop, Change the World: The Story of the OLPC in Ghana

Published on Apr 1, 2014 Give a Laptop, Change the World: The Story of the OLPC in Ghana, a documentary by Leslie Steeves, examines the MIT Media Lab’s One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project—which aims to make low cost computers…