Month: January 2019

Sharon Luk honored with book prize for “The Life of Paper”

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Luk Receives Matei Calinescu Prize from the Modern Language Association Sharon Luk, assistant professor in the UO Department of Ethnic Studies, has been awarded the Matei Calinescu Prize for her book, The Life of Paper: Letters and Poetics of Living…

CSWS welcomes Hypatia team

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New Editorial Team Chosen for Hypatia (adapted from the Department of Philosophy website)—After an extensive search, a new editorial team for Hypatia has been enthusiastically and unanimously accepted by the search committee and the newly reconstructed nonprofit board. The new…

Mimi Nguyen: Of Gifts, Debts, and Threats

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A public talk in conversation with UO’s 2018-2019 Common Reading Book, The Best We Could Do Thi Bui’s graphic memoir The Best We Could Do movingly tells personal and political histories of the war in Vietnam and its aftermath for…

Samantha Irby, Keynote Speaker: Women in Media Symposium

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182 Lillis 955 E. 13th Ave. UO campusFor full information about the symposium: https://library.uoregon.edu/women_media_symposium Samantha Irby is a popular comedian and author who writes a blog called Bitches Gotta Eat. Her first book, Meaty, follows Irby through failed relationships, taco…

Miriam Abelson: Book Colloquium

Location: Browsing Room, Knight Library Miriam Abelson returns to the University of Oregon for a colloquium, with a panel of commentators, to discuss her forthcoming book, Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America, due out in March…

Book Celebration: “Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics”

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Alder Building, Conference Room, 818 E. 15th Ave., UO campus Book Celebration: Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan this will include a panel discussion Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics, edited by Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan (University of…