Month: January 2015

CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium

[ May 7, 2015 6:00 pm to May 9, 2015 5:00 pm. ] For Full Details
“Our Daily Bread: Women’s Stories of Food and Resilience”    May 7 – 9, 2015
The fourth annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium will be held Thursday May 7, 2015, through Saturday May 9, 2015. Diana Abu-Jaber (Crescent; The Language of Baklava; Birds of Paradise) is the keynote author and will be joined by […]

Breeze Harper’s Kale Smoothie Recipe for “Racial Tension Headaches in a ‘Post-Racial’ USA”

From the ASUO Women Center’s recent issue of The Siren, here’s a Kale Smoothie Recipe for “Racial Tension Headaches in a ‘Post-Racial’ USA” from Dr. Amie “Breeze” Harper, who will be delivering a lecture, participating in a panel discussion, and leading a workshop at the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium, which runs May 7 – […]

2015 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship Open to Applicants

Deadline: 5 p.m.

Le Guin Fellowship printable flyer
The deadline for the 2015-16 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship has been extended to 5 pm, Thursday, October 1, 2015. Applications and questions should be sent to csws@uoregon.edu.  The 2015-16 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, […]

Jessaca Leinaweaver: “Collaborative Research on Children, Caregiving, and Migration in Peru”

[ May 14, 2015; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ] Graduate Student Lounge
Susan Campbell Hall
1431 Johnson Lane
A Public Talk
Jessaca Leinaweaver conducts research in cultural anthropology and anthropological demography within Peru and the Peruvian diaspora. She has published on informal child fostering in the urban Andes, aging in Andean Peru, and transnational adoption and migration from Peru to Spain. She is an associate professor of anthropology […]

Laura Fair: “It Takes More Than Profits to Make a Man: Historical Understandings of Success Amongst Tanzanian Entrepreneurs”

[ May 14, 2015; 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm. ] Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.

Talk Title: “It Takes More Than Profits to Make a Man: Historical Understandings of Success Amongst Tanzanian Entrepreneurs”

Dr. Laura Fair is an associate professor of history at Michigan State University. Her current project is a wide-ranging study of commercial cinema in colonial and postcolonial Tanzania. Dr. Fair’s first book was Pastimes […]

Spiderwoman Theatre Residency

[ May 12, 2015; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. May 15, 2015; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. May 16, 2015; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] 5/12    2 pm  Many Nation’s Longhouse: Scholar’s Talk
5/15  7 pm    Spiderwoman Theatre Retrospective – Lecture presentation, Hope Theatre, Miller Theatre Complex, UO
5/16   7 pm  Story-weaving Sharing event — open to public

May 10-16, 2015
Muriel Miguel, co-founder and director of Spiderwoman Theatre Company, the oldest Native women’s theatre ensemble in North America, will be in residence […]