Category: Lectures

Road Scholars Presentation: Queens and Amazons in Renaissance Art and History

7/31/15 Queens and Amazons in Renaissance Art and History This CSWS Road Scholars presentation offers 16th- and 17th-century literature and music—together with visual images of paintings, engravings, and sculptures —that portray women forcefully as queens and Amazons. he women in…

Yvonne Braun lecture: “Networking for Women’s Rights: Transnational Organizing in Southern Africa”

Browsing Rm, Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Fall African Studies Lecture Series: Women and Gender in Africa “Networking for Women’s Rights: Transnational Organizing in Southern Africa” Dr. Braun is an associate professor in the Departments of Women’s and…

“‘Who is Marjorie Mensah?’ The Educated Woman and the Formation of a Modern West African Nation”

Browsing Room, Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus African Studies Lecture Series, Fall 2014: Women and Gender in Africa “’Who is Marjorie Mensah?’ The Educated Woman and the Formation of a Modern West African Nation” Dr. Prais is the…

“The Longest Unwritten Chapter”: Interrelated Histories of African and Native America

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Department of Ethnic Studies presents Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture Professor Tiya Miles—“The Longest Unwritten Chapter”: Interrelated Histories of African and Native America Professor Tiya Miles is the Elsa Barkley Brown Collegiate Professor of…