[ November 12, 2013; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Knight Library
Browsing Rm
1501 Kincaid St.
We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements
by Lynn Stephen, Director, CLLAS, Distinguished Professor, UO Department of Anthropology
The launch of UO anthropology professor Lynn Stephen’s book We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements, published by Duke University Press, is free and open to the public. The […]
[ November 22, 2013; 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm. ] OSHER Lifelong Learning Center
Eugene, OR
Jane Grant: A Feminist Legacy
This talk tells the story of Jane Grant’s impact on feminist history, from her co-founding of The New Yorker to her activism in early women’s rights movements, and the serendipitous events that brought her legacy to the University of Oregon and the Center for the Study of […]
[ November 1, 2013; 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. November 2, 2013; 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. ] Friday Location:
UO Knight Library, Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid
Saturday Location:
Jaqua Academic Center for Student AthletesAuditorium
1615 East 13th Avenue, Eugene
A two-day international symposium to discuss the postcolonial interrelations between Latin America, Spain and Portugal. See more at: http://jsma.uoregon.edu/TransatlanticismSymposium
Organizaed by Pedro García-Caro and Cecilia Enjuto Rangel. Sponsored The Iberian and Latin American Transatlantic Studies Symposium is sponsored by the […]
[ October 2, 2013 to October 4, 2013. ] [caption id="attachment_17089" align="alignright" width="158"] Laura Edwards, Duke University[/caption]
Time and Place TBA
This presentation is about the ways that ordinary people in the South, particularly African American women, contributed to the legal changes that we associate with the Reconstruction Amendments and top-down change. These groups had a much broader, expansive notion of “rights” and also of what […]
[ October 3, 2013; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. October 4, 2013; 9:00 am to 10:30 am. ] “In The Wrong Body” tells the story of Mavi Susel, who underwent Cuba’s first gender reassignment operation in 1988. In addition this documentary explores such timely issues as the meaning of femininity in the macho and patriarchal society of Cuba.
Thursday Oct. 3: 4-5:30 p.m.
Public screening of documentary “In The Wrong Body” (RT 52 minutes) followed […]
[ November 15, 2013; 10:00 am to 11:30 am. ] Lewis Lounge
Knight Law Center
1515 Agate St., UO campus
Américas Research Interest Group presents Lauren Heidbrink
Lauren Heidbrink is an anthropologist and has a joint appointment as assistant professor in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and Public Policy at National Louis University in Chicago, Illinois. She received a doctorate in anthropology from Johns Hopkins University, joint master of […]
