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CSWS Noon Talk: “The One Laptop Per Child Project in Ghana,” Leslie Steeves

Jane Grant Rm 330 Hendricks 1408 University St. “Technology, Gender and Education for Development: The One Laptop Per Child Project in Ghana” Leslie Steeves, Professor, UO School of Journalism and Communication, will talk about her research and show a clip…

UO Today #478: Theresa May and Gordon Bettles

UO Today #478: Theresa May and Gordon Bettles   Gordon Bettles, steward of the UO’s Many Nations Longhouse and member of the Klamath tribe, appears with Theresa May, Theatre Arts and codeveloper of the play “Salmon is Everything.” They talk…

“Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes”—Courtney Thorsson

330 Hendricks Hall Jane Grant Room UO campus FITF Works-in-Progress Series “Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes” Abstract: Professor Thorsson will be discussing her work in progress, “Revolutionary Recipes: Foodways and African American Literature.” “Revolutionary Recipes” argues that a group of African…

“The Tempest, Europe, & Maritime Modernity”—Ania Loomba

Alumni Lounge Gerlinger Hall 1468 University St. A free public lecture by Professor Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania. Professor Loomba researches and teaches early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and contemporary Indian literature and…

Sheryl WuDunn: 2011 Lorwin Lecture

“Half the Sky: The Greatest Unexploited Resource in the World Today Isn’t Oil or Gold or Wind. It’s Women.” —Sheryl WuDunn 2011 Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Erb Memorial Union Ballroom University of Oregon…