Category: Events

Lynn Stephen to Launch New Book: “We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements”

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…

CSWS Road Scholars Talk — Jane Grant: A Feminist Legacy

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…

Iberian and Latin American Studies Symposium

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:…

Laura Edwards—“Women, Law, and Culture:  Rethinking Legal Change in the Civil War Era”

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…

Cuban Filmmaker Marilyn Solaya to Screen “In the Wrong Body”

“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.…

Lauren Heidbrink—“Collisions of Debt and Interest: 
Youth Negotiations of (In)debt(ed) Migration 
and the Best Interests of the Child”

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…