Category: Events

Reading and book signing with acclaimed Canadian writer Louise Dupré

[ February 20, 2015; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Museum of Natural and Cultural History
1680 E 15th Ave.
Eugene, OR

The UO Department of Romance Languages and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History invite you to a reading and book signing by acclaimed Canadian writer Louise Dupré. A major figure in contemporary Quebec literature, Dupré is the author of Plus haut que les flammes, a […]

Ileana Rodríguez-Silva: “Gender and Class in the Silencing of Race in Puerto Rico”

[ February 6, 2015; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] Browsing Room, Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.   printable flyer
Public Talk

Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva is an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Washington, Department of History. She earned her B.A. at the Universidad de Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rodriguez-Silva is the […]

Reforming Sexual Violence Prevention at the University of Oregon: Caroline Heldman & Danielle Dirks

Editor’s Note: Caroline Heldman and Danielle Dirks were invited to the University of Oregon campus as part of the 2013-14 Lorwin Lectureship Series, presented by the Center for the Study of Women in Society. Because of a winter storm, all events were cancelled on the UO campus that day. CSWS was able to videotape a […]

Screening of the CSWS Documentary “Agents of Change”

[ April 23, 2014; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Fenton 110
1021 E. 13th Ave., UO campus
Flyer PDF

Screening of documentary followed by Q & A with director Gabriela Martínez and co-producer Sonia De La Cruz. Free and open to the public.

Agents of Change: A legacy of feminist research, teaching, and activism at the University of Oregon, by Gabriela Martínez and Sonia De La Cruz (Creative Commons, […]

Brown Bag Discussion: “Feminist Approaches to Mandatory Reporting of Sexual Violence”

[ April 23, 2014; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Jane Grant  Room
330 Hendricks Hall
1408 University St.
A Brown Bag Discussion: “Feminist Approaches to Mandatory Reporting of Sexual Violence”
According to UO President Gottfredson’s message dated Dec. 7, 2012, “Oregon law requires that all University employees with credible evidence that any form of prohibited discrimination by or against students, faculty or staff is occurring have a duty […]

Ruth Milkman — “Gender and Labor: Comparing the Great Depression and the Great Recession”

[ April 23, 2014; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_19101" align="alignright" width="136"] Professor Ruth Milkman[/caption]

Living Learning Center
Room 101
Free & open to the public

A talk by Ruth Milkman, professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Professor Milkman’s talk and her current research revisit a topic she explored early in her career: the impact of economic crisis on women […]