Month: January 2015

“Internal or Transnational? Zapotec Women’s Migration Dilemmas,” a CSWS Noon Talk with Iván Sandoval Cervantes

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[ April 22, 2015; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_21598" align="alignright" width="300"] photo by Iván Sandoval Cervantes[/caption]

 

 

Jane Grant Room
330 Hendricks Hall
UO campus
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For women of the Zapotec community of Santa Ana Zegache, discussing migration presents gender specific dilemmas. In this presentation, Iván Sandoval Cervantes provides an historical analysis of the different migration movements in which women from Santa Ana Zegache have participated: Zegacheñas […]

Science envoy Richmond now in Southeast Asia on official visit

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January 7, 2015—Science envoy Richmond now in Southeast Asia on official visit | Around the O.

Geri Richmond is making stops in Thailand and Vietnam this month in her first official trip as a U.S. science envoy.
Richmond, a UO chemistry professor and Presidential Chair, was among four science envoys named Dec. 4 by the U.S. State […]

Road Scholars Presentation: Queens and Amazons in Renaissance Art and History

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7/31/15
Queens and Amazons in Renaissance Art and History
This CSWS Road Scholars presentation offers 16th- and 17th-century literature and music—together with visual images of paintings, engravings, and sculptures —that portray women forcefully as queens and Amazons. he women in these roles display a confident assumption of equivalence with men, strong agency, and loyal friendship and, at […]