Category: Events

Road Scholar Talk: Alisa Freedman, “Modernism & Fashion in Jazz-Age Tokyo”

[ March 14, 2013; 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm. ] Willamalane Adult Activity Center
215 West C St
Springfield, Oregon
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A CSWS Road Scholar Community Presentation
Modernism and Fashion: Dressing for Work and Play in Jazz-Age Tokyo
My talk examines how women’s fashion defined Jazz-Age Tokyo, representing larger social desires and fears about rapid national modernization. In the 1920s and 1930s, Tokyo emerged as a modern metropolis, […]

Upcoming Reading: “The Missing Italian Girl,” by Barbara Corrado Pope

[ March 2, 2013; 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ] Browsing Room
Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.

Now out in hardback and available in eBook Formats Online, The Missing Italian Girl (Pegasus Books, February 2013) is the third crime novel in the Bernard Martin mystery series of Barbara Corrado Pope, professor emerita, UO Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.

March 2 at Knight Library marks the first reading from […]

Racial Representations: African American Literature Since 1975

[ April 26, 2013; 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. ] a

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Gerlinger Hall Alumni Lounge
1468 University St.
UO campus

A group of innovative scholars who specialize in African American literature will gather at the University of Oregon to give talks about their research on April 26, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. This free symposium is open to the public and will take place in the Alumni […]

UO Today #526: Brenda Frink

UO Today #526: Brenda Frink | University of Oregon Video.
Brenda Frink, research associate at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University, talks about pioneer societies and Pioneer Mother monuments in the American West.
Dr. Frink lectured on “Pioneer Mother: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Public Monuments in the U.S. West,” at the […]

CSWS Noon Talk: Karyn Lewis on Women in STEM

[ April 24, 2013; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] 330 Hendricks
Jane Grant Rm
1408 University
UO campus

Read the Around the O story
“When Hard Work Doesn’t Pay Off: Exploring Self-Perceptions to Understand the Underrepresentation of Women in STEM”
Karyn Lewis is a Ph.D. candidate in the UO Department of Psychology. She received a 2010 CSWS graduate student research grant for her work on this research.
From the 2012 CSWS […]

Fembot Jam Session 1: An Unconference on Feminist Multimodal Publishing and Collaboration

[ February 9, 2013 to February 10, 2013. ] a
White Stag Building
Portland, Oregon
The draft schedule for the Fembot Jam Session 1: an unconference on feminist multimodal publishing is now available:  <http://fembotcollective.org/fembot-unconference-schedule/>. The final topic schedule and room locations will be determined each day. The empty slots will be filled in by you. Please come with ideas and topics ready to share!
Unconference
Slightly over a year […]