Month: January 2015

CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium

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;…

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…

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…

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

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…

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

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…

Spiderwoman Theatre Residency

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…