Category: Events

LET’S TALK FOOD Conversations with Oregon Food Writers: Jennifer Burns Bright

Pictured is Jennifer Burns Bright.

[ March 16, 2017; 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm. ] Join the Museum of Natural and Cultural History for Let’s Talk Food, a new series exploring food and culture in Oregon and beyond. Sponsored by Oregon Humanities. The conversations are included with museum admission; free for members and UO ID card holders. Third Thursdays in spring at 5:30 p.m. Fish Tales: Traditions and Challenges of […]

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 […]

“Gender, Sexuality, and Leisure in Africa” Symposium

[ February 24, 2017; 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. ] Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus

The symposium will bring together a group of multi-disciplinary scholars who work on different regions of Africa to present works-in-progress for an edited volume focused on issues of leisure and expressive culture in the everyday lives of women and men in Africa and the Diaspora. The symposium will consist of […]

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 […]

Imaginactivism: Author & Activist Starhawk on Social and Environmental Justice

[ April 27, 2017; 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm. 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Two appearances in two different locations.
1) Imaginactivism: An afternoon conversation with Renowned Author and Activist Starhawk about Social and Environmental Justice
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Browsing Room, Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St., UO campus

In this afternoon event Starhawk will be in conversation with Professor Erin Moore, Department of Architecture; Dr Joan Haran, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, Center […]

CSWS Research Grant Proposals due January 30

Pictured is a former graduate student doing research with microfinance clients in Bolivia.

[ January 30, 2017; ] Proposals for CSWS research support grants for faculty, staff, graduate, and undergraduate students are due by 5 p.m. on January 30, 2017.

Guidelines and applications are available at: http://csws.uoregon.edu/funding/research-grants/

These support grants include:

2017-18 Faculty/staff Research Grants
2017-18 Graduate Student Research Grants
2017-18 Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship
2017 Jane Higdon Senior Thesis Scholarship 

Read about the kinds of […]