Category: Events

The Invisible War: A documentary film about military sexual trauma

[ November 14, 2012; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Screening w/ Q & A discussion
177 Lawrence Hall, 1190 Franklin Blvd.
UO campus

Veterans for Peace, Chapter 159 and Truth in Recruiting/Community Alliance of Lane County presents the film The Invisible War. Military sexual trauma has been the U.S. Military’s dirty little secret, carefully researched and thoughtfully presented in the film. Through veteran stories, exposure of high […]

2012 CSWS NW Women Writers Symposium: MemoirFest Audio Recordings

Audio recordings now available for the 2012 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium: MemoirFest, held Saturday, May 12, 2012 on the University of Oregon campus.
Morning session, with panelists Crystal Williams, Debra Gwartney, and Lidia Yuknavitch.
Afternoon session, with panelists Dominick Vetri, Margarita Donnelly, Lauren Kessler, and Elizabeth Reis.
MemoirFest Program
CSWS Women Writers Project

CSWS Office Manager & Events Coordinator Shirley Marc to Retire

[ June 13, 2012; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_2693" align="alignright" width="145" caption="Shirley Marc"][/caption]

Retirement Party
for Shirley Marc
330 Hendricks Hall

Shirley Marc, office and events coordinator at the Center for the Study of Women in Society, has worked at CSWS for 15 years. She juggled innumerable duties, among them helping plan 18 conferences, helping make arrangements for hundreds of speakers and catering events, and […]

Jenée Wilde Selected for Fellowship and Research Grant

Jenée Wilde
Jenée Wilde has been selected to receive the 2012-2013 Norman Brown Graduate Fellowship, which was established by alumnus Norman Brown (’68) to support graduate student excellence. A PhD candidate in the UO Department of English (Folklore Program), she has also been selected to receive a 2012 Folklore Summer Research Grant to conduct archival research, […]

SOJC Associate Professor Gabriela Martínez Chosen for CSWS Post

May 9, 2012—Whether she is documenting the deadly effects of open-fire cooking and heating on children and women in Mayan homes in highland Guatemala, rescuing the history of indigenous women in Mexico, or writing about the geographical expansion and institutional growth of the Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica, UO associate professor and documentary filmmaker Gabriela Martínez […]

Ruth Ozeki, “A Tale for the Time Being” — Reading & Booksigning

[ May 10, 2013; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Erb Memorial Union (EMU), Fir Room, 1222 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus, Eugene    FREE & open to the public
Ruth Ozeki is a Canadian-American novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Her new novel, A Tale for the Time Being, was published in March by Viking. She is also the author of My Year of Meats and All Over […]