Category: Events

Karma Chávez — “Queer Fields, Queer Methods: Advancing an Activist Research Methodology”

[ May 23, 2013; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus
Public Lecture: “Queer Fields, Queer Methods: Advancing an Activist Research Methodology”
Given all the critiques of queer theory and queerness that have emerged in recent years, including pronouncements of queer theory’s impending demise, what’s the good in thinking about queer methodologies now? How should those invested in queer approaches and activist […]

Romani (Gypsy) Women and Activism: Challenges and Opportunities

[ May 24, 2013; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_16536" align="alignright" width="250"] “Do not sterilize our women” (Czech Republic, 2008).[/caption]

204 Condon
1321 Kincaid
UO campus
Department of Anthropology Colloquium
Romani (Gypsy) Women and Activism: Challenges and Opportunities
Professor Angela Kocze is a visiting Fulbright Fellow in Women’s and Gender Studies at Wake Forest University. She holds a PhD in anthropology (2011) from Central European University.

Roma, Europe’s largest minority […]

Book Talk — Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda

[ April 24, 2013; 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm. ] 111 Alder Building
818 E. 15th Ave.

Deb Vargas is an associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of California at Riverside. She earned her PhD in sociology with an emphasis in feminist studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her research includes Chicano and Latino cultural studies, critical race feminisms, queer-of-color critique, popular […]

Celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month by Writing Women into Wikipedia!

[ March 8, 2013; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. March 9, 2013; 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_15998" align="alignright" width="210"] Sarah Stierch Will Lead Free Workshop March 8 (Matthew Roth, Wikimedia Foundation)[/caption]

Celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month by teaching and encouraging our community members to become Wikipedians and by adding women to Wikipedia’s content.

Friday, March 8, 3-5 pm, Knight Library Browsing Room: Sarah Stierch, who trained as a fellow […]

The New Cult of Motherhood: From Rosemary’s Baby to Twilight Breaking Dawn

[ May 10, 2013; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] a

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Jacqua Academic Center
Auditorium
1615 E. 13th Ave.

A Talk by Kelly Oliver, W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University

Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Study of Women in Society.

Accommodations for people with disabilities will be provided by calling (541) 346-3386.

“Conjugal Chains” — Michelle McKinley — Works-in-Progress Talk

[ May 10, 2013; 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Knight Law School
Faculty Lounge
UO campus

Discussion of Michelle McKinley’s work-in-progress. McKinley is an associate professor of law, UO School of Law, and a member of the CSWS Advisory Board.

Commentators are: Carlos Aguirre, professor of history, University of Oregon; and Barbara Welke, professor, of history and law, University of Minnesota.

For the abstract and chapter, contact: Michelle McKinley, […]