Category: Community Outreach

“Too Many P’s”? Personal, Political, Publics and Potatoes — a conversation about the politics of food and kinship with novelist Ruth Ozeki

[ May 9, 2013; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
Fir Room, 1222 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus    FREE & open to the public
“Too Many P’s”? Personal, Political, Publics and Potatoes
Ruth Ozeki will read from her novel, All Over Creation, and will be joined at the table by an interdisciplinary panel of scholars. We will talk about public engagement with agricultural technoscience, genetic […]

WikiWomen Event Media Archives | Fembot Collective

WikiWomen Event Media Archives | Fembot Collective
Fembot WikiWomen Event
Fembot coordinated an effort to write women into Wikipedia. Archived live streams are available on http://fembotcollective.org
The CSWS Fembot Project produces the Fembot website.

Writing Women into Wikipedia

[ March 7, 2014; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. March 8, 2014; 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Allen Hall
Room 221
1020 University St.
UO campus
Eugene, OR

In celebration of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month

Fembot, in collaboration with the ASUO Women’s Center, the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the School of Journalism and Communication and the UO Libraries is hosting events in Eugene, Oregon and online to write women into Wikipedia.

Friday, […]

Women’s advocate to speak | Sheryl WuDunn, co-author of the book “Half the Sky,” will discuss civil rights and economic promise

Women’s advocate to speak | Sheryl WuDunn, co-author of the book “Half the Sky,” will discuss civil rights and economic promise.
May 10, 2011—From the Eugene Register-Guard

Voices of Environmental Justice: A Panel Discussion

[ April 12, 2012; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] John E. Jaqua Academic Learning Center
1615 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus
FREE and open to the public

A panel discussion about environmental justice in Eugene and Lane County.

Moderator: Lisa Arkin, Executive Director of Beyond Toxics
Panelists:

Luis Olmedo, Executive Director of Comité Civico
Caleen Sisk, Chief and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu
Ben Duncan, Chair of the Oregon Governor’s Environmental Justice […]

CSWS Blog: Women’s Rights in a Global World

Have you seen our new CSWS blog, Women’s Rights in a Global World?
This blog accompanies our year-long series of symposia, lectures, and workshops related to the Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and was specifically inspired by the book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof […]