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Conference: Academia//Activism: Reimagining Education Without Gender Discrimination

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[ April 18, 2014; 10:30 am to 3:15 pm. ] Allen Hall 221
1020 University St.
UO campus

Calling undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff to engage in a collaborative conference to create interdisciplinary solutions to gender discrimination.
Conference Schedule
10:30am-11:30am  “Women’s Experiences of Violence in Higher Education: Considerations for Preventive Intervention.”  Format: Introduction and Roundtable.
Presenters:
Krista Chronister, Leah Heng, Harpreet Bahia, Kelsey South, Anjuli Chitkara, Colleen McCarthy, Anna Reichard, Yolanda Valenzuela, and Catherine Woods
Refreshments: […]

CSWS Noon Talk: Megan Burke, “Heterosexuality, Sexual Violence and the Temporality of Femininity”

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[ January 21, 2015; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Jane Grant Rm
330 Hendricks
1408 University
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“Heterosexuality, Sexual Violence and the Temporality of Femininity”
PhD candidate Megan Burke (philosophy) will give a lunch-time talk related to her dissertation research. This talk will examine the way in which sexual violence is integral to the production and lived experience of gendered subjectivity by focusing on the philosophical question of […]

UO Today #558 Molly Gloss

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Molly Gloss, prize-winning novelist, is the author of Jump-Off Creek, Wild Life, and The Hearts of Horses. She discusses her writing and her forthcoming novel due out in fall 2014. Gloss was interviewed in November 2013 for UO Today by Paul Peppis, interim director of the Oregon Humanities Center.
Gloss visited the UO campus as a participant […]

Documentary by Gabriela Martínez to be shown during Border Film Week at the University of San Diego

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Border Film Week – Events at the University of San Diego.
CSWS associate director Gabriela Martínez has been invited to screen her documentary Keep Your Eyes On Guatemala for the Border Film Week Series organized by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego. The documentary will be screened on March […]

A Brief Review: CSWS 40th Anniversary Celebration

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Crowd Panorama: A Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin / photo by Jack Liu
Commemorative Schedule Booklet   40th Anniversary photos   More 40th photos
More than a thousand people attended the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, which took place November 7 – 9, 2013, at the Erb Memorial Union and […]

CSWS 40th Anniversary Featured in UO’s Student-Run Emerald Media

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UO Center for Women in Society celebrates 40th anniversary and strive for equality | Emerald Media. Story by Natalie Maier.
“We’ve come a long way and we’ve got a long way to go,” Jenée Wilde, one of the main organizers of the 40th anniversary said. “What’s very revealing to me is that there are a lot of […]