The CSWS Symposium “Women’s Activism, Women’s Rights” brought together two scholars and two activists to a round-table discussion on women’s labor organizing issues from global and national perspectives. The symposium was held Monday, February 28, 2011. Dr. Vandana Shiva, the…
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Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WWII
150 Columbia University of Oregon a In 1942, when computers were human and women were underestimated, a group of female mathematicians helped win a war and usher in the computer age. Screening of “Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of…
Fighting Impunity in National Courts: Human Rights & Transitional Justice in Latin America
Knight Library, Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus This talk addresses critical issues in the efforts to bring to court human rights violators in Latin America. It discusses two types of national courts litigation: first, when litigation is available…
“Terrorizing Women: Feminicide and Gender Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands”—Cynthia Bejarano
UO Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. This lecture is cosponsored by Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies. Dr. Cynthia Bejarano is the Stan Fulton Endowed Chair in…
Symposium: “Place and Displacement in African American Literature”
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Eve Dunbar (Vassar), “Place and Displacement in the Ethnographic and Literary Writings of Zora Neale Hurston” Courtney Thorsson (U Oregon), “Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes” Emily Lordi (U Mass), “’Move’: Literary Historiography and the…
Addressing Violence: In the Lives of South Asian Women
a a Lillis Building, Room 111 UO campus Free and open to the public Film Presentation and Panel Discussion
