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UO professor to open international literary conference | Around the O

Barbara Mossberg, humanities professor in the Clark Honors College
December 7, 2015—“Barbara Mossberg, a humanities professor in the Clark Honors College, has been chosen to contribute to the 2015 Abroad Writers’ Conference this month in Dublin, Ireland — which was honored as UNESCO’s fourth ‘City of Literature’ in 2010.
“The annual conference is an international summit that features acclaimed […]

“G-Men Masculinity: The FBI’s War on Broadcasting,” a CSWS Noon Talk with Carol Stabile

[ January 13, 2016; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] VENUE CHANGE: Knight Library Collaboration Center, Room 122
1501 Kincaid St., UO campus

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Carol Stabile, interim director of CSWS, will talk about her research, followed by discussion. A professor in the UO School of Journalism and Communication and head of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, she is the author of Feminism and the Technological […]

Medical Research Foundation of Oregon honors UO’s Judith Eisen

Judith Eisen
Source: Medical Research Foundation of Oregon to honor UO’s Eisen and Nolen | Around the O
Nov. 12, 2015—Biologist Judith Eisen received the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon’s Discovery Award during its annual banquet “for her seminal work in transforming the aquatic vertebrate model, the zebrafish, into a groundbreaking research model for biomedical science.”
Around the […]

Reading with Lauren Kessler: Raising the Barre

[ November 30, 2015; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Global Scholars Great Hall
1710 E. 15th Ave.
UO campus

The UO Bookstore presents a reading, signing and reception with Lauren Kessler, featuring her latest book, Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker. The event also includes a short performance by The Eugene Youth Ballet.

Kessler is a professor in the […]

Two Chosen as Graduate Interns for Fembot

November 10, 2015—The Fembot Collective has selected two University of Oregon graduate students as graduate interns to help work on Fembot projects, with special project funding awarded by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS). Jeremiah Favara and Tara Keegan will travel to Los Angeles in March for the event “Ms. […]

Now Available, Fembot’s ADA, Issue 8: Globalization, Gender and the Digital

From the CSWS Fembot Special Project
We are delighted to announce the publication of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, Issue 8, Globalization, Gender and the Digital, edited by Roopika Risam. Please share with your lists, tweet, post, and pin.

Contents
Issue Introduction: Globalization, Gender and the Digital, by Roopika Risam [@roopikarisam]
http://ada.fembotcollective.org/2015/11/issue8-risam
#digitalhumanities, #gender, #globalization, #intersectionality, […]