Month: December 2015

“Imaginactivism”: Scholar Joan Haran to Spend Two Years at CSWS as the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow

December 9, 2015—December 1 marked the starting date of scholar Joan Haran’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship at the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon. Dr. Haran will be tracking attempts to adapt Starhawk’s…

Missa Aloisi: “Architecture Without Ego”

Eugene Location: Monday, February 8, 2016 5:30 p.m. 206 Lawrence Hall 1190 Franklin Boulevard Portland Location: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 5:00 p.m. White Stag Block 70 NW Couch Street, Rm 150 STAnDD Lecture / University of Oregon Department of Architecture…

adrienne maree brown chosen as 2015-16 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow

December 4, 2015 Eugene, OR—adrienne maree brown, an independent science fiction scholar and a social justice activist, has been chosen as the 2015-16 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow. Brown lives in Detroit, Michigan, and is the coeditor of Octavia’s…

UO Feminist Scholar Lamia Karim Wins Prestigious Fellowship

November 17, 2015—Lamia Karim, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, has been named a 2016-17 Fellow at the International Research Center “Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History” at Humboldt University in Berlin…

CSWS Research Matters Fall 2015: Ana-Maurine Lara’s “Landlines” explores the ideas of home and homeland

Fall 2015: CSWS Research Matters   See also: A Public Performance “LANDLINES” by Ana-Maurine Lara, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Department of Anthropology LANDLINES is a performance poetry project funded through the Oregon Arts Commission, and which explored ideas of home…