UO Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Best-selling journalist and memoirist Novella Carpenter will talk about her urban farm experience in downtown Oakland, California in a conversation moderated by award-winning food blogger Jennifer Burns Bright (UO Departments of English…
Month: January 2015
NWWS: The Language of Baklava, a panel discussion with and about Diana Abu-Jaber
UO Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. “Diana Abu-Jaber’s vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father with talks of Lake Ontario cookouts and feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert. These sensuously…
Diana Abu-Jaber At Large | Jefferson Public Radio
“We’re still trying to figure out what Diana Abu-Jaber does NOT do; she’s good at so many things. Novelist, cookbook author, teacher, speaker… and there…” You can listen to this May 6 interview with Diana Abu-Jaber at: http://ijpr.org/post/diana-abu-jaber-large / Source:…
Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, Issue 6, Hacking the Black/White Binary
January 5, 2015—The Fembot Collective released the latest edition of its online open-access, peer-reviewed journal. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, Issue 6: “Hacking the Black/White Binary” was edited by Brittney Cooper and Margaret Rhee. Fembot is…
Cuban science fiction scholar Yasmín S. Portales Machado to speak at CSWS
Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall 1408 University St. printable flyer PDF “In Search of Estraven III: Homophobia, Feminism & (Homo)Sexualities in Cuban Science Fiction of the 21st Century” A science fiction scholar and gay rights activist, Yasmín S.…
“To Gain Title to Our Bodies: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance in the Civil Rights Era,” a lecture by Danielle McGuire
375 McKenzie Hall 1101 Kincaid St. UO campus Free public lecture Danielle McGuire argues that Black women’s protests against sexual assault and interracial rape fueled the modern civil rights movement and that even the most well-known movement campaigns — the…
