Category: Community Outreach

2016 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium (NWWS)

campus location: Knight Library, Browsing Rm community location: downtown Eugene Public Library #crossingborders for live tweeting at some events FULL SCHEDULE: http://csws.uoregon.edu/events-2/2014-nwws/2016-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium/ 5th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “Crossing Borders: Women’s Stories of Immigration, Migration, and Transition” The fifth…

NWWS documentary premiere “Sad Happiness: Cinthya’s Transborder Journey” with director Lynn Stephen

Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. Eugene, OR  97403 UO campus Opening event of the 2016 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium Documentary Film Premiere:“Sad Happiness: Cinthya’s Transborder Journey,” followed by Q&A with the director. Browsing Room, Knight Library. Directed…

Sexual violence prevention, guest lecture with David Lisak

The UO Organization Against Sexual Assault (UO OASA) is bringing renowned sexual violence researcher and prevention advocate David Lisak to the University of Oregon on May 26. Lisak will host two public talks. The first will explore sexual predators and…

CSWS Research Matters Fall 2015: Ana-Maurine Lara’s “Landlines” explores the ideas of home and homeland

Fall 2015: CSWS Research Matters   See also: A Public Performance “LANDLINES” by Ana-Maurine Lara, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Department of Anthropology LANDLINES is a performance poetry project funded through the Oregon Arts Commission, and which explored ideas of home…

LANDLINES: A public performance by poet Ana-Maurine Lara

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…

Breeze Harper’s Kale Smoothie Recipe for “Racial Tension Headaches in a ‘Post-Racial’ USA”

From the ASUO Women Center’s recent issue of The Siren, here’s a Kale Smoothie Recipe for “Racial Tension Headaches in a ‘Post-Racial’ USA” from Dr. Amie “Breeze” Harper, who will be delivering a lecture, participating in a panel discussion, and…