Author: alicee

Shannon Elizabeth Bell Interviewed for Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead Podcast

Fembot’s February Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview couldn’t come at a more important time, especially in light of last month’s Elk River chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia.
In this BAD interview Sue Dockstader (MS, University of Oregon) talks with Shannon Bell (assistant professor, University of Kentucky), author of Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian […]

Screening of the CSWS Documentary “Agents of Change”

[ April 23, 2014; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Fenton 110
1021 E. 13th Ave., UO campus
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Screening of documentary followed by Q & A with director Gabriela Martínez and co-producer Sonia De La Cruz. Free and open to the public.

Agents of Change: A legacy of feminist research, teaching, and activism at the University of Oregon, by Gabriela Martínez and Sonia De La Cruz (Creative Commons, […]

Brown Bag Discussion: “Feminist Approaches to Mandatory Reporting of Sexual Violence”

[ April 23, 2014; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Jane Grant  Room
330 Hendricks Hall
1408 University St.
A Brown Bag Discussion: “Feminist Approaches to Mandatory Reporting of Sexual Violence”
According to UO President Gottfredson’s message dated Dec. 7, 2012, “Oregon law requires that all University employees with credible evidence that any form of prohibited discrimination by or against students, faculty or staff is occurring have a duty […]

Ruth Milkman — “Gender and Labor: Comparing the Great Depression and the Great Recession”

[ April 23, 2014; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_19101" align="alignright" width="136"] Professor Ruth Milkman[/caption]

Living Learning Center
Room 101
Free & open to the public

A talk by Ruth Milkman, professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Professor Milkman’s talk and her current research revisit a topic she explored early in her career: the impact of economic crisis on women […]

Conference: Academia//Activism: Reimagining Education Without Gender Discrimination

[ April 18, 2014; 10:30 am to 3:15 pm. ] Allen Hall 221
1020 University St.
UO campus

Calling undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff to engage in a collaborative conference to create interdisciplinary solutions to gender discrimination.
Conference Schedule
10:30am-11:30am  “Women’s Experiences of Violence in Higher Education: Considerations for Preventive Intervention.”  Format: Introduction and Roundtable.
Presenters:
Krista Chronister, Leah Heng, Harpreet Bahia, Kelsey South, Anjuli Chitkara, Colleen McCarthy, Anna Reichard, Yolanda Valenzuela, and Catherine Woods
Refreshments: […]

CSWS Noon Talk: Megan Burke, “Heterosexuality, Sexual Violence and the Temporality of Femininity”

[ January 21, 2015; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Jane Grant Rm
330 Hendricks
1408 University
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“Heterosexuality, Sexual Violence and the Temporality of Femininity”
PhD candidate Megan Burke (philosophy) will give a lunch-time talk related to her dissertation research. This talk will examine the way in which sexual violence is integral to the production and lived experience of gendered subjectivity by focusing on the philosophical question of […]