In a lecture titled “Brown Skins, White Avatars: Racebending and Straightwashing in Digital Games,” Edmond Chang spoke about how video games like Assassin’s Creed and World of Warcraft “manipulate race and sexuality, reinforce stereotypes, and sometimes lack diversity.” Chang, a…
Month: January 2016
C.J. Pascoe to keynote OSU’s 4th Annual Healthy Masculinities Conference
University of Oregon professor Dr. C.J. Pascoe will be the keynote speaker at Oregon State University’s 4th Annual Healthy Masculinities Conference. Pascoe, a CSWS faculty affiliate, is an associate professor of sociology at UO. The conference will take place on…
Immigration Law Speaker Series: Abigail Molina
Room 141 UO School of Law Knight Law Center Abigail Molina is an immigration law attorney in Eugene, Oregon, who represents clients seeking defense from deportation, applications for citizenship, and petitions for humanitarian immigration relief. She will discuss women &…
Margaret Hallock retires after more than 30 years at UO
CSWS salutes our long-time Advisory Board member and collaborative researcher, Margaret Hallock January 20, 2016—“For more than three decades, Margaret Hallock has served the UO and the broader community by looking at the world through the eyes of workers, women…
Directed by Theresa May, the Pulitzer Prize–winning play “Water by the Spoonful” to debut on campus
Source: ‘Water by the Spoonful’ to debut at Hope Theater | Around the O CSWS faculty affiliate Theresa May directs the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Water by the Spoonful,” which will open at the Hope Theatre in the Miller Theatre…
Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema, a new book by David Li
Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema by David Leiwei Li (Routledge, March 2016, 230 pages) Synopsis CSWS faculty affiliate David Leiwei Li’s book Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema is due out soon and available for preorder. David…
