Dr. Lamia Karim’s book Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) recently came out in a Korean edition (Maybooks, 2015). The book is a radical critique of the effects of microfinance NGOs, including…
Month: January 2016
Call for papers: open issue Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology
Editor’s Note: Ada is a publication of the Fembot Collective. Fembot is a CSWS Special Project. Call for papers: Open issue Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology | adanewmedia.org Issue 10, forthcoming November 2016 http://fembotcollective.org/blog/2015/09/22/call-for-papers-issue-10-open-call/ Edited by…
Highest honor: Geri Richmond to receive Medal of Science
Editor’s Note: Geri Richmond is a CSWS Faculty Affiliate. December 22, 2015—“Geri Richmond was about to board an airliner Saturday morning in Washington, D.C., to return home to Eugene when she got an email with news from the White House…
2016 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium (NWWS)
campus location: Knight Library, Browsing Rm community location: downtown Eugene Public Library #crossingborders for live tweeting at some events FULL SCHEDULE: http://csws.uoregon.edu/events-2/2014-nwws/2016-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium/ 5th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “Crossing Borders: Women’s Stories of Immigration, Migration, and Transition” The fifth…
The Ancient and The Modern: Customary and Civil Marriage & Family Law in Gabon
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Dr. Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Department of History, University of California-Davis, “The Ancient and The Modern Customary and Civil Marriage & Family Law in Gabon” This lecture is sponsored by the Center for…
Viet Thanh Nguyen: 2016 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in conversation with David Leiwei Li
Straub 156 1451 Onyx St. University of Oregon Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2016 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, will read from The Sympathizer and engage in conversation with David Leiwei Li, Collins Professor of English, University of Oregon. Mr.…
