by alicee • • Comments Off on Joy Harjo Interview: UO Today
Oregon Humanities Center Published on Feb 15, 2018 Joy Harjo, an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, is a poet, musician, and author. She is the Professor and Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee at…
by alicee • • Comments Off on New Book by Mai-Lin Cheng: “British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest”
A new book by CSWS faculty affiliate Mai-Lin Cheng “explores the importance to Romantic literature of a concept of human interest.” British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest was published in December 2017 by Bucknell University Press and co-published…
by alicee • • Comments Off on In Memory: Ursula K. Le Guin
January 23, 2018—Like so many others, we are saddened to learn of the passing on Monday of the great writer Ursula K. Le Guin. The news came through a breaking news announcement in the New York Times. Ursula Le Guin…
by alicee • • Comments Off on 7th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium
Free & open to the public 7th Annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “The Border and Its Meaning: Forgotten Stories” Printable Poster PDF Panel Discussion: April 25, 3:00 – 4:30 PM Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) Ford Lecture Hall,…
by alicee • • Comments Off on “Defective and Deficient: Thinking about ‘Bad’ Bodies” — Eli Clare
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Free event Limited seating “All too many people and communities are named defective and deficient in a thousand different ways. Those words are weapons used to create ‘bad’ and disposable body-minds. Through poetry,…
by alicee • • Comments Off on Queer History Lecture features Princeton scholar Regina Kunzel
Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Free & open to the public “In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality” Queer History Lecture Regina Kunzel holds the Doris Stevens Chair and is professor of History and…