Category: Events

“The Right to Culture as a Human Right: Noise, Gender Violence, and the Cultural Defense”—Alison Dundes Renteln

[ January 29, 2014; 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm. ] Ben Linder Room
Erb Memorial Union
1222 E. 13th Ave.

Presented by Alison Dundes Renteln, Professor of Political Science, Anthropology, Law, and Public Policy, University of Southern California

Immigrants often have to give up their customs to conform to the standards of their new society. But should newcomers to the U.S. be expected to discard their traditions, even though […]

CSWS Knight Library Display Spotlights 40 Years on Campus

[ September 16, 2013 to November 29, 2013. ] Knight Library, 1501 Kincaid St.

“40 Years Strong, A Timeline of Feminist Research, Teaching, and Activism on Campus” is currently on display at the Knight Library on the UO campus.  Researched by Jenée Wilde, a PhD candidate in English (Folklore) and CSWS development fellow, the display was developed in collaboration with Cristian Boboia, Image Services, UO Libraries, […]

“Degrees of Freedom: Intimacy, Slavery, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Latin America” with Professor Michelle McKinley

[ January 27, 2014; 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Lewis Lounge, Knight Law Center
1515 Agate St.
UO campus
The University of Oregon School of Law presents the Bernard B. Kliks Professorship lecture:
“Degrees of Freedom: Intimacy, Slavery, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Latin America,” with Professor Michelle McKinley

How could enslaved women assert legal claims to personhood, wages, and virtue, when the law regarded them as mere property? […]

CSWS: “Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives” JSMA Photo Exhibit

[ September 9, 2013 11:00 am to December 29, 2013 5:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_17214" align="alignright" width="214"] Photo caption: Patricia Harris Noyes (American, 1921-2010) / IRENE, BIG LIMIT CAFÉ, CABAZON, CALIFORNIA, 1948 / Gelatin silver print, 9-5/8 x 7-9/16 inches / Gift of the Estate of Patricia H. Noyes; 2010:19.1[/caption]

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
1430 Johnson Lane, UO campus

Gallery Talk: October 18  Noon to 1:00 p.m.

This special selection […]

A Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin

[ November 8, 2013; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_16984" align="alignright" width="128"] Ursula K. Le Guin / photo by Dan Tuffs[/caption]

Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
1222 E. 13th Ave.
Eugene, OR, UO campus map
PDF of Event Schedule

Online pre-registration for the 40th Anniversary Celebration is now CLOSED.  Limited first come, first served seating will be available for this keynote event:

 Friday, Nov. 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m. – “A Conversation […]

How to Get Involved in Fembot

[ January 9, 2014; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Digital Scholarship Center
UO Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.

We’d like to invite you to participate in Fembot, an international network of feminist media scholars developed and managed here at the University of Oregon. In the past year, Fembot’s journal, Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, has engaged in (successful!) experiments to transform peer review […]