Category: Events

micha cárdenas, “Shifting Poetics: Trans of Color Movement in Digital Media”

[ February 24, 2016; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ]

 

 

Clinical Services Bulding (CLS) 220
901 E. 18th St.
PART OF WGS 199

Shifting Poetics: Trans of Color Movement in Digital Media, with micha cárdenas

After unprecedented visibility for trans women of color in 2014, the number of murders of trans women more than doubled in 2015. In this talk, cárdenas elaborates a trans of color poetics that can […]

CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium

[ May 7, 2015 6:00 pm to May 9, 2015 5:00 pm. ] 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; The Language of Baklava; Birds of Paradise) is the keynote author and will be joined by […]

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

[ May 14, 2015; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ] 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 in Andean Peru, and transnational adoption and migration from Peru to Spain. She is an associate professor of anthropology […]

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

[ May 14, 2015; 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm. ] 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 project is a wide-ranging study of commercial cinema in colonial and postcolonial Tanzania. Dr. Fair’s first book was Pastimes […]

Spiderwoman Theatre Residency

[ May 12, 2015; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. May 15, 2015; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. May 16, 2015; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] 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 and director of Spiderwoman Theatre Company, the oldest Native women’s theatre ensemble in North America, will be in residence […]

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

[ May 20, 2015; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Jane Grant Conference Room
330 Hendricks Hall
UO campus
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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 shaped and shapely—this talk reflects on queer objects and paths of interpretation and communication, aiming to interrupt some received […]