Category: Lectures

First Acker-Morgen Lecture will honor two UO feminist scholars

Pictured is former CSWS director Sandra Morgen.

Source: First Acker-Morgen Lecture will honor two UO feminist scholars | Around the O
See also: http://csws.uoregon.edu/evelyn-nakano-glenn/
April 17, 2017 – When Joan Acker, who helped found the Center for the Study of Women in Society, and Sandra Morgen, a longtime center director, passed away last year the UO lost two powerful feminist voices.
But their messages will […]

Keywords for Video Game Studies: Nature

[ February 22, 2017; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] Source: Keywords for Video Game Studies: Nature | Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
Keywords for Video Game Studies
Speaker series
Second lecture: Nature

Date: February 22, 2017
Time: 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Location: EMU 023, Lease Crutcher Lewis Room, University of Oregon

WINTER 2017: NATURE

“The Problem of Modeling (and Rendering) Trees” with Alenda Chang

Can you commune with nature in a video […]

Cleaning the House of Broadcasting: Gender, Race, and the FBI Attack on Television

[ February 6, 2017; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] 714 PLC
UO campus

Sociology Colloquium Series

a talk by Carol Stabile, associate dean, CAS, and professor, WGS and SOJC, University of Oregon

Abstract: In June 1950, a group of former FBI agents published a slender volume titled Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television, launching an attack on television that they described as an […]

Evelyn Nakano Glenn to deliver inaugural CSWS Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture

Pictured is Evelyn Nakano Glenn.

[ April 24, 2017; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Knight Library Browsing Rm
1501 Kincaid St., UO campus
Flyer: printable PDF
“Settler Colonial Legacies: Racialized and Gendered U.S. Citizenship”
Evelyn Nakano Glenn, professor emerita of the Graduate School and founding director, Center for Race and Gender, at the University of California, Berkeley, will deliver the inaugural CSWS Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture on April 24, 2017.

Professor Glenn’s books include Forced […]

Juana Maria Rodriguez to deliver Sally Miller Gearheart Lecture

Pictured is Juana Maria Rodriguez.

[ January 27, 2017; 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. ] Crater Lake South
Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
1222 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus
“Feeling Photography, Visualizing Testimony, Imagining Alterity”
Keynote, Sally Gearheart Lecture, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Oregon

Professor Juana Maria Rodriguez, University of California, Berkeley

Abstract: This paper considers two books of photography that document the lives of the residents of a home for elderly sex workers in Mexico […]

“Gender Justice in Guatemala: Advances and Challenges,” with Erin Beck and Lynn Stephen

Pictured is a street vendor selling textiles in Guatemala.

[ January 19, 2017; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
Room 119
UO campus

UO professors Erin Beck and Lynn Stephen will discuss their research in a CLLAS Faculty Collaborative Research talk titled “Gender Justice in Guatemala: Advances and Challenges.” The talk will take place in Room 119 in the Erb Memorial Union on January 19, 2017, at 3:30 p.m.

Presentation Focus
“In Guatemala, a woman […]