Category: Events

Cuban science fiction scholar Yasmín S. Portales Machado to speak at CSWS

Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall 1408 University St. printable flyer PDF “In Search of Estraven III: Homophobia, Feminism & (Homo)Sexualities in Cuban Science Fiction of the 21st Century” A science fiction scholar and gay rights activist, Yasmín S.…

“To Gain Title to Our Bodies: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance in the Civil Rights Era,” a lecture by Danielle McGuire

 375 McKenzie Hall 1101 Kincaid St. UO campus Free public lecture Danielle McGuire argues that Black women’s protests against sexual assault and interracial rape fueled the modern civil rights movement and that even the most well-known movement campaigns — the…

“Internal or Transnational? Zapotec Women’s Migration Dilemmas,” a CSWS Noon Talk with Iván Sandoval Cervantes

    Jane Grant Room 330 Hendricks Hall UO campus printable flyer PDF For women of the Zapotec community of Santa Ana Zegache, discussing migration presents gender specific dilemmas. In this presentation, Iván Sandoval Cervantes provides an historical analysis of the…

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…

The Hunting Ground: a screening

Global Scholars Hall 1710 E. 15th Ave. UO campus The documentary The Hunting Ground will premiere at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, at the University of Oregon’s Global Scholars Hall, 1710 E. 15th Ave., Eugene. A discussion will follow the screening.…

Film Showing: “The Supreme Price”

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Free & open to the public The Supreme Price, directed and produced by Joanna Lipper, is a feature length documentary film that traces the evolution of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Nigeria and efforts…