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Sally Miller Gearhart “Worlds Beyond World” Symposium: Feminist Utopian Thought

[ November 9, 2013; ] EMU Ballroom
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Full schedule PDF. For more information about 40th anniversary events, go to: http://csws.uoregon.edu/?page_id=8612 
Sally Miller Gearhart “Worlds Beyond World” Symposium: Feminist Utopian Thought
In this symposium, authors and cultural critics explore feminist creative production and the roles of speculative fiction and utopian ideas in imagining feminist futures.

Friday, Nov. 8

6:30-8:30 p.m. – “A Conversation with […]

“Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives” Symposium — 40th celebration

[ November 8, 2013; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_16817" align="alignright" width="240"] Painting by Miriam Johnson / courtesy of Ben Johnson[/caption]

Ballroom
Erb Memorial Union
1222 E. 13th Ave.
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PDF of Event Schedule

Friday, Nov. 8, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., the “Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives” Symposium explores four decades of feminist research and activism through five interwoven themes: women’s rights, violence against women, women’s health, activism and […]

“The Right to Culture as a Human Right: Noise, Gender Violence, and the Cultural Defense”—Alison Dundes Renteln

[ January 29, 2014; 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm. ] Ben Linder Room
Erb Memorial Union
1222 E. 13th Ave.

Presented by Alison Dundes Renteln, Professor of Political Science, Anthropology, Law, and Public Policy, University of Southern California

Immigrants often have to give up their customs to conform to the standards of their new society. But should newcomers to the U.S. be expected to discard their traditions, even though […]

CSWS Knight Library Display Spotlights 40 Years on Campus

[ September 16, 2013 to November 29, 2013. ] Knight Library, 1501 Kincaid St.

“40 Years Strong, A Timeline of Feminist Research, Teaching, and Activism on Campus” is currently on display at the Knight Library on the UO campus.  Researched by Jenée Wilde, a PhD candidate in English (Folklore) and CSWS development fellow, the display was developed in collaboration with Cristian Boboia, Image Services, UO Libraries, […]

“Degrees of Freedom: Intimacy, Slavery, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Latin America” with Professor Michelle McKinley

[ January 27, 2014; 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Lewis Lounge, Knight Law Center
1515 Agate St.
UO campus
The University of Oregon School of Law presents the Bernard B. Kliks Professorship lecture:
“Degrees of Freedom: Intimacy, Slavery, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Latin America,” with Professor Michelle McKinley

How could enslaved women assert legal claims to personhood, wages, and virtue, when the law regarded them as mere property? […]

UO’s Richmond appointed presidential chair

Geri Richmond
“University of Oregon chemist Geraldine ‘Geri’ Richmond, who was named last year to the 25-member National Science Board, has been appointed to serve as the UO’s second-ever presidential chair. Richmond will serve as the UO’s presidential chair in science. She specializes in chemistry, materials science and chemical reactions on liquid surfaces.”
Read more: UO’s Richmond […]