Month: January 2016

Stacy Alaimo, “Acidification and Material Immersion: The Anthropocene at Sea”

[ May 19, 2016; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Browsing Room
Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus

A public talk by Stacy Alaimo

Stacy Alaimo is professor of English and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, Arlington. She is currently working on two books, Protest and Pleasure: The Strange Agencies of Bodies and Places, and Sea Creatures and the Limits of Animal Studies: Science, Aesthetics, Ethics.

Sponsored […]

Dr. Lamia Karim will present keynote at upcoming conference at Santa Clara University

Dr. Lamia Karim will deliver the keynote address at the 43rd Annual Western Departments of Sociology and Anthropology Undergraduate Research Conference. The conference will take place on Saturday, April 23, 2016 at Santa Clara University. This conference is the oldest such conference in the country.  The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum […]

Latina Feminists of the Latina/o Theatre Commons

[ April 14, 2016; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Hope Theatre
1109 Old Campus Lane
University of Oregon campus
FREE! Refreshments at 4:30pm
https://blogs.uoregon.edu/feministlatinas/

Latina / Latinx leadership in the arts has transformed since the days of el movimiento! The powerful art, music & teatro of the Chicano Rights movement of the 60s & 70s inspired generations and the changes just keep coming…

Playwrights, directors, theatre makers: Anne García-Romero, Teresa […]

NWWS documentary premiere “Sad Happiness: Cinthya’s Transborder Journey” with director Lynn Stephen

[ May 6, 2016; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Browsing Room
Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.
Eugene, OR  97403
UO campus

Opening event of the 2016 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium
Documentary Film Premiere:“Sad Happiness: Cinthya’s Transborder Journey,” followed by Q&A with the director. Browsing Room, Knight Library.
Directed by Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon (Anthropology and Ethnic Studies) and codirector of the Center […]

Elizabeth Armstrong, “Sex, Alcohol, & Violence: How Status Competition Creates Risk”

[ April 21, 2016; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Ford Alumni Center
Giustina Ballroom
1720 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus
PDF flyer

College professor Elizabeth A. Armstrong spent five years inhabiting a dorm room on the Indiana University campus while studying the party culture that dominates student social life. In a public lecture titled “Sex, Alcohol, and Violence: How Status Competition Creates Risk,” Dr. Armstrong will talk about what […]

Yeti Campus Stories & Sexism in the Digital College Party Scene

[ April 19, 2016; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Allen Hall 141
1020 University St.
UO campus

SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH

Yeti Campus Stories & Sexism in the Digital College Party Scene

Jeremiah Favara is a Graduate Teaching Fellow in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and a doctoral candidate in the School of Journalism and Communication. Focusing on representations of college party culture on Yeti: Campus Stories, […]