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Mary Rothbart honored for her career in personality psychology

Mary K. Rothbart
Mary Rothbart honored for her career in personality psychology | Around the O.
Mary K. Rothbart, professor emerita of psychology at the University of Oregon, has won the 2014 Block Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. The award is the society’s principal recognition for research accomplishment in the field of personality […]

Fembot’s September BAD Interview: Technomobility in China

September 5, 2014—Books Aren’t Dead: Technomobility in China: Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones
In this month’s BAD interview, Fan Mai (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Virginia) talks with Cara Wallis (Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University), author of Technomobility in China (New York University Press, 2013).

Fembot is a special project of the UO Center for the Study of […]

Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship: An Interview with 2014 Fellow Kathryn Allan

Kathryn Allan (l) chats with Jenée Wilde, then-CSWS development GTF, at the CSWS 40th Anniversary Celebration in Nov. 2013 / photo by Jack Liu.
Editor’s Note: The deadline for the 2014-15 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship is September 5, 2014. This interview appears in the 2014 CSWS Annual Review.

“‘The Other Lives’—Locating Dis/Ability in Utopian Feminist […]

Gabriela Martinez, “Collective Memory: The Role of Media Makers”

[ February 4, 2015; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_21414" align="alignright" width="170"] Gabriela Martinez[/caption]

141 Allen Hall
1020 University St.
UO campus

“Collective Memory: The Role of Media Makers”

A public lecture by Gabriela Martínez, 2014-15 Wayne Morse Resident Scholar and associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. Dr. Martínez is also the associate director of the Center for the Study […]

Speakers urge UO to do more to prevent sexual assaults

Speakers urge UO to do more to prevent sexual assaults | Around the O.
August 27, 2015—A crowd of about 50 gathered for the first public forum at the University of Oregon by the President’s Review Panel, which heard thoughts and comments from a dozen people. Read more in this report from Around the O.

Scholar Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Headlines UO Disability Studies Forum

[ October 30, 2014; 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Keynote Luncheon (must RSVP), held 11-1,
Ford Alumni Center
Community Conversation, 3-5 pm, Gerlinger Lounge
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Professor Rosemarie Garland-Thomson of Emory University, one of the most influential and respected figures in disability studies, will present her current research on the bioethics of technology at the second annual UO Disability Studies Forum. The forum consists of two events this […]