Author: alicee

CSWS Noon Talk—“An Army of Some: Recruiting for Difference and Diversity in the U.S. Armed Forces”

[ December 2, 2015; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Jane Grant Room, 330 Hendricks Hall
1408 University St.
Flyer PDF

“An Army of Some: Recruiting for Difference and Diversity in the U.S. Armed Forces” is the title of a CSWS noon talk scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, to be given by Jeremiah Favara. Jeremiah Favara is a graduate teaching fellow in the Department of Women’s and […]

New survey on sexual climate suggests more awareness of services is needed

Source: New survey on sexual climate suggests more awareness of services is needed | Around the O
August 21, 2015—A new survey on sexual victimization issues at the University of Oregon reaffirms previous findings that there is a need to increase awareness about available services, while decreasing negative perceptions of institutional support.
Psychology professor Jennifer Freyd provided […]

Tiptree Symposium | UO Libraries

[ December 4, 2015 to December 5, 2015. ] [caption id="attachment_22864" align="alignright" width="325"] Alice Sheldon aka James Tiptree, Jr.[/caption]

 

Lillis Auditorium
Room 182
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Source: Tiptree Symposium | UO Libraries

The University of Oregon Libraries will celebrate the acquisition of the James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon) literary papers with a two-day symposium on December 4-5, 2015. James Tiptree, Jr. was the pen name of Alice Sheldon, […]

Highlighting the 2014-15 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellows

Andrew Ferguson, Le Guin Fellow
Editor’s Note: The 2015-16 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship is currently open for applications, with a deadline of October 1, 2015.
When Andrew Ferguson came to campus to explore UO’s superb collection of feminist science fiction, he wasn’t expecting to uncover the original manuscript of Ursula Le Guin’s Tehanu hidden away […]

LANDLINES: A public performance by poet Ana-Maurine Lara

[ August 22, 2015; August 23, 2015; ] [caption id="attachment_20646" align="alignright" width="166"] Ana-Maurine Lara[/caption]

Eugene, OR—On Saturday August 22 and Sunday August 23, 2015, Ana-Maurine Lara, winner of the Oregon Arts Commission Joan Shipley Award, will perform LANDLINES, a public event exploring the ideas home and homeland in Eugene. The Sephardic Jewish notion of kasa inspires two public processions that reflect on what home […]

Audra Simpson, “We are Not Red Indians”: The Gender of Anticolonial Sovereignty Across the Borders of Time, Place and Sentiment

[ November 17, 2015; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
UO Campus

Audra Simpson is an associate professor of anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke University Press, 2014), winner of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association’s Best First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize, the […]