Category: Events

CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium

For Full Details “Our Daily Bread: Women’s Stories of Food and Resilience”    May 7 – 9, 2015 The fourth annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium will be held Thursday May 7, 2015, through Saturday May 9, 2015. Diana Abu-Jaber (Crescent;…

Jessaca Leinaweaver: “Collaborative Research on Children, Caregiving, and Migration in Peru”

Graduate Student Lounge Susan Campbell Hall 1431 Johnson Lane A Public Talk Jessaca Leinaweaver conducts research in cultural anthropology and anthropological demography within Peru and the Peruvian diaspora. She has published on informal child fostering in the urban Andes, aging…

Laura Fair: “It Takes More Than Profits to Make a Man: Historical Understandings of Success Amongst Tanzanian Entrepreneurs”

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Talk Title: “It Takes More Than Profits to Make a Man: Historical Understandings of Success Amongst Tanzanian Entrepreneurs” Dr. Laura Fair is an associate professor of history at Michigan State University. Her current…

Spiderwoman Theatre Residency

5/12    2 pm  Many Nation’s Longhouse: Scholar’s Talk 5/15  7 pm    Spiderwoman Theatre Retrospective – Lecture presentation, Hope Theatre, Miller Theatre Complex, UO 5/16   7 pm  Story-weaving Sharing event — open to public May 10-16, 2015 Muriel Miguel, co-founder…

“Hip Checks and a Garish Pink Box: Queer Experiments in Looking and Writing,” a CSWS Noon Talk with Erica Rand

Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall UO campus printable flyer PDF As raced markers of gender and sexuality, hips bear weight and meaning, fate and contradiction. Beginning in the story of a gift offered across numerous divides—rural/urban, female/femme, hips…