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Road Scholar Talk: Alisa Freedman, “Modernism & Fashion in Jazz-Age Tokyo”

Willamalane Adult Activity Center 215 West C St Springfield, Oregon New Book Now Out A CSWS Road Scholar Community Presentation Modernism and Fashion: Dressing for Work and Play in Jazz-Age Tokyo My talk examines how women’s fashion defined Jazz-Age Tokyo,…

SOJC Professor Leslie Steeves Wins a 2013 UO Martin Luther King, Jr., Award

H. Leslie Steeves is one of seven winners of the UO’s 2013 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Award. Steeves, professor  and associate dean of Graduate Affairs and Research, UO School of Journalism and Communication, is also a long-time CSWS faculty…

Upcoming Reading: “The Missing Italian Girl,” by Barbara Corrado Pope

Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. Now out in hardback and available in eBook Formats Online, The Missing Italian Girl (Pegasus Books, February 2013) is the third crime novel in the Bernard Martin mystery series of Barbara Corrado Pope,…

Racial Representations: African American Literature Since 1975

a a Gerlinger Hall Alumni Lounge 1468 University St. UO campus A group of innovative scholars who specialize in African American literature will gather at the University of Oregon to give talks about their research on April 26, 2013 from…

UO Today #526: Brenda Frink

UO Today #526: Brenda Frink | University of Oregon Video. Brenda Frink, research associate at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, talks about pioneer societies and Pioneer Mother monuments in the American West. Dr. Frink lectured…

The Hidden Ways Microfinance Hurts Women

The Hidden Ways Microfinance Hurts Women | Brandeis Magazine. Lamia Karim’s book, Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh, (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) is featured in the Fall 2012/ Winter 2013 issue of Brandeis Magazine. An associate…