Category: Lectures

CSWS Noon Talk — Jane Grant: A Feminist Legacy

[ October 23, 2013; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Graduate Student Center
Susan Campbell Hall
Room 111

Jane Grant: A Feminist Legacy – This talk tells the story of Jane Grant’s impact on feminist history, from her co-founding of The New Yorker to her activism in early women’s rights movements, and the serendipitous events that brought her legacy to the University of Oregon and the Center for […]

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 […]

Kimberly Theidon — “Speaking of Silences: Gender, Violence and Reparations in Peru”

[ May 9, 2014; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] 204 Condon Hall
1321 Kincaid
University of Oregon
A talk by Dr. Kimberly Theidon (Harvard University)
Kimberly Theidon is a medical anthropologist focusing on Latin America. Her research interests include domestic, structural and political violence; gender studies; human rights and international humanitarian law; the politics of post-war reparations; disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programs for ex-combatants; and US counter-narcotics policy.

Sponsored […]

Public Lecture by Libby Larsen, Composer

[ May 9, 2014; 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_19300" align="alignright" width="137"] Libby Larsen[/caption]

Collier House Living Room
1170 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus

Libby Larsen, composer and co-founder of American Composers Forum, will give a public lecture on her work and experience as one of America’s most performed living composers.

The UO School of Music and Dance has named Larsen a 2014 Robert M. Trotter Visiting Professor, […]

Juan Carlos Areán: “Transforming Men to End Violence Against Women”

[ April 10, 2014; 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Lane Community College
Downtown Center
101 W. 10th Ave., Eugene, OR

Mr. Juan Carlos Areán is an internationally recognized public speaker, trainer and facilitator, published author and documentary film producer. Since 1991, he has worked to engage men across different cultures to become better fathers, intimate partners, and allies to end domestic violence and achieve gender equity. He […]