Alumni Lounge Gerlinger Hall 1468 University St. A free public lecture by Professor Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania. Professor Loomba researches and teaches early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and contemporary Indian literature and…
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Sheryl WuDunn: 2011 Lorwin Lecture
“Half the Sky: The Greatest Unexploited Resource in the World Today Isn’t Oil or Gold or Wind. It’s Women.” —Sheryl WuDunn 2011 Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Erb Memorial Union Ballroom University of Oregon…
The Impact of Microfinance on Women’s Empowerment in Bolivia
Hendricks Hall Frazier Hearth Rm UO campus A Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies (CLLAS) Grantee Presentation: Alejandra García Diaz Villamil (PPPM) How have communal banks in Bolivia impacted the empowerment of women entrepreneurs, particularly in terms of decision-making,…
CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium presents: MemoirFest
Gerlinger Hall Alumni Lounge 1468 University UO campus map MemoirFest program You’re invited to MemoirFest, an all-day symposium on women writers and memoir. MemoirFest will feature presentations and panel discussions by Debra Gwartney, Crystal Williams, Lidia Yuknavitch, Lauren Kessler, Margarita…
Women’s advocate to speak | Sheryl WuDunn, co-author of the book “Half the Sky,” will discuss civil rights and economic promise
Women’s advocate to speak | Sheryl WuDunn, co-author of the book “Half the Sky,” will discuss civil rights and economic promise. May 10, 2011—From the Eugene Register-Guard
Roundtable: Domestic Slavery and Servitude in the Americas
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Dangerous Dependencies May 4 Program Guest presenters include: Michelle McKinley (University of Oregon, Law) “Dangerous Dependencies: Domestic Servitude and Degrees of Freedom in Seventeenth-Century Lima” Rachel O’Toole (UC-Irvine, History) “Manumitted but…
