Month: July 2018

Barbara Sutton “Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina”

Pictured is Barbara Sutton.

[ October 25, 2018; 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm. ] Gerlinger Alumni Lounge
1468 University Street
UO campus
Free & open to the public

Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina

Barbara Sutton, Associate Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York

Notable: Barbara Sutton is the 2002 CSWS Jane Grant Fellow and a former student of Joan Acker […]

Research project on gendered justice among those receiving OVPRI 2018 Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives awards

Pictured are Erin Beck and Lynn Stephen.

July 16, 2018—Lynn Stephen and Erin Beck, two members of the CSWS Américas Research Interest Group whose research on gender violence in Guatemala and the U.S. is on a yearly basis of support from CSWS, are among those whose research will receive 2018 Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives awards from the Office of the Vice President for […]

Black Latina the Play

[ October 19, 2018; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Hope Theatre
Free admission

UO Latinx Strategies Group, UO Black Strategies Group, and UO Theatre Arts present:

Black Latina the Play on Friday, Oct 19th at 7:30pm at the Hope Theatre

BLACK LATINA IS one STORY OF BEING A BLACK LATINA IN THE U.S.

Performance followed by a conversation with writer and director Ms. Crystal Roman

Event information: blogs.uoregon.edu/blacklatina

Two workshops will be […]

New Directions in Black Feminist Studies: Mireille Miller-Young

Pictured is Mireille Miller-Young.

[ October 19, 2018; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Friday, Oct. 19, 2018
Gerlinger Lounge, 12 p.m.

Black Feminism, Labor, Sex Work

Mireille Miller-Young, PhD, is associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research explores race, gender and sexuality in visual culture and sex industries in the United States. Her book, A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women and Pornography (Duke […]

Michelle McKinley’s “Fractional Freedoms” now out in paperback

Pictured is Michelle Mckinley.

Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600–1700
by Michelle A. McKinley, Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon
Cambridge University Press (Paperback, 2018)
Part of Studies in Legal History
Recently released in paperback, Fractional Freedoms is CSWS director Michelle McKinley’s award-winning book on urban slavery in colonial Latin America. Fractional Freedoms is the winner of the […]

Welcome Reception for New Women Faculty on October 9

Pictured are faculty affiliates at the New Women Faculty Celebration.

[ October 9, 2018; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] Gerlinger Lounge
1468 University St.

The Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs invite you to a reception to welcome new women faculty to campus.

New and current faculty at the University of Oregon are invited to attend this event to welcome new women faculty to campus, which […]