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Priscilla Ovalle — “From Black Hair to Black Panther: Collaborative Scholarship and Thinking through Cinematic Blackness”

Pictured is Priscilla Ovalle.

[ April 13, 2018; 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. ] McKenzie Hall
Room 375
1101 Kincaid St.
UO Campus

Join Priscilla Peña Ovalle (UO Cinema Studies) and guest Leah Aldridge (LMU School of Film and Television) as they discuss their new book projects in a talk titled “From Black Hair to Black Panther: Collaborative Scholarship and Thinking through Cinematic Blackness.” At this CSWS “Works-in-Progress/Author Meets Reader” event, Aldridge and […]

Laila Lalami columnist for The Nation to headline CSWS NW Women Writers Symposium

Laila Lalami will be our keynote speaker for the 7th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium on April 25. Her keynote talk is titled “The Border and Its Meaning: Forgotten Stories.” Details: http://csws.uoregon.edu/2018nwws/
In an addition to being an award-winning novelist and a Pulitzer finalist, Lalami writes the “Between the Lines” column for The Nation.
Below are […]

Celebrating Research: CSWS Faculty Affiliates

[ May 3, 2018; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ] Erb Memorial Union
Crater Lake North
CSWS Faculty Affiliates at the University of Oregon

Celebrating Research 2018
Alphabetical Listing of Faculty with Book & Documentary Film Publications 2014-2018
sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society in conjunction with the Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs

Monique Balbuena (Robert D. Clark Honors College)
Homeless Tongues: Poetry and […]

On the Frontlines of the Gig Economy: Organizing Taxi Workers under Ubernomics

[ May 2, 2018; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. May 3, 2018; 7:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Portland
7 pm Wednesday, May 2
SEIU 503 Hall, 401 SE Foster Rd.

Eugene
7 p.m. Thursday, May 3
Ford Alumni Center
1720 E. 13th Ave.

Featuring Bhairavi Desai, executive director and found member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance

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Bhairavi Desai is executive director and founding member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. The NYTWA is […]

“Bourgeois Extreme: Genre and Global Flows,” a talk by Sangita Gopal

[ May 11, 2018; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] 300 Villard Hall
1109 Old Campus Lane
University of Oregon

Sangita Gopal, associate professor of cinema studies, will present a talk entitled “Bourgeois Extreme: Genre and Global Flows” as part of the Department of Comparative Literature’s “What Matters To Me” series on Friday, May 11, at 4:00 p.m.

Professor Gopal teaches in the Department of Cinema Studies, the Department […]

Workshop: Get a Life, PhD — led by Tanya Golash-Boza

Pictured is Tanya Golash-Boza.

[ April 6, 2018; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] Jane Grant Conference Room
Hendricks Hall 330
1408 University St.
By invitation only
RSVP: cswsevents@uoregon.edu

A CSWS Work Life Balance event
In this workshop, Tanya Golash-Boza will explain how it is possible to both have a life and be a productive academic. Drawing from her own experience as well as research on creativity and productivity, Professor Golash-Boza will discuss how to […]