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CSWS Advisory Board Member Michelle McKinley Named Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law

Michelle McKinley
McKinley named Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law | AroundtheO
Associate professor Michelle McKinley has been named the Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law, University of Oregon School of Law Dean Michael Moffitt announced recently.
The professorship is awarded to law school faculty with demonstrated strength in teaching, high ethical standards and having made significant contributions […]

Cuban Filmmaker Marilyn Solaya to Screen “In the Wrong Body”

[ October 3, 2013; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. October 4, 2013; 9:00 am to 10:30 am. ] “In The Wrong Body” tells the story of Mavi Susel, who underwent Cuba’s first gender reassignment operation in 1988. In addition this documentary explores such timely issues as the meaning of femininity in the macho and patriarchal society of Cuba.

Thursday Oct. 3: 4-5:30 p.m.
Public screening of documentary “In The Wrong Body” (RT 52 minutes) followed […]

Lauren Heidbrink—“Collisions of Debt and Interest: 
Youth Negotiations of (In)debt(ed) Migration 
and the Best Interests of the Child”

[ November 15, 2013; 10:00 am to 11:30 am. ] Lewis Lounge
Knight Law Center
1515 Agate St., UO campus

Américas Research Interest Group presents Lauren Heidbrink

Lauren Heidbrink is an anthropologist and has a joint appointment as assistant professor in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and Public Policy at National Louis University in Chicago, Illinois. She received a doctorate in anthropology from Johns Hopkins University, joint master of […]

The Third Annual Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture

[ November 15, 2013; 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm. ] Browsing Room, Knight Library
1501 Kincaid Street
University of Oregon
The Third Annual Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture, presented by the UO Department of Ethnic Studies
Broken Fragments of the Primitive Life’: Race and Dynamic Psychiatry in the Early Twentieth- Century U.S. —with Martin Summers, National Humanities Center Fellow, cultural historian, and associate professor, Boston College

Martin Summers is a cultural […]

CLLAS Guatemala Collaborative Team Receives Grant from UO Genocide Prevention Initiative

CLLAS Guatemala Collaborative Team Receives Grant from UO Genocide Prevention Initiative | CLLAS.
Photo by Greg Krupa
Editor’s Note: CSWS associate director Gabriela Martinez and advisory board member Michelle McKinley are members of the Guatemala collaborative team awarded this grant. The Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) was incubated within CSWS before becoming an independent […]

Six CSWS Faculty Affiliates among Those Chosen to Receive the Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards

Six CSWS faculty affiliates were among 14 UO faculty chosen to receive the Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards for AY 2013-14.  Each recipient will be awarded $20,000 in recognition for his or her research, teaching and leadership. They are:

Juliet (Jill) Baxter, education studies
Michael Hames-Garcia, ethnic studies
Mary Jaeger, classics
Kate Mondloch, history of art & architecture
Carol Silverman, […]