Category: Literature

NWWS: Saturday afternoon readings & talks

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Pictured is Ariel Gore.

[ May 7, 2016; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Full Schedule: http://csws.uoregon.edu/events-2/2014-nwws/2016-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium/

5th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium
“Crossing Borders: Women’s Stories of Immigration, Migration, and Transition,” May 6 – 8, 2016
The symposium includes panel discussions, writing workshops, a keynote talk, author conversations & readings, book signings, and discussion. Our theme is “Crossing Borders: Women’s Stories of Immigration, Migration, and Transition.” How have our migrations […]

Lidia Yuknavitch wins two 2016 Oregon Book Awards

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Pictured is Lidia Yuknavitch.

Lidia Yuknavitch at the 2012 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium / photo by Robert Hill Long.
Congratulations are due UO graduate Lidia Yuknavitch, who helped inaugurate the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium in May 2012 as a featured author at MemoirFest. Lidia, who earned her PhD in English at the University of Oregon, is the winner […]

2016 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium (NWWS)

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[ May 6, 2016; 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm. May 7, 2016; 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. ] campus location: Knight Library, Browsing Rm
community location: downtown Eugene Public Library
#crossingborders for live tweeting at some events
FULL SCHEDULE: http://csws.uoregon.edu/events-2/2014-nwws/2016-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium/
5th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium

“Crossing Borders: Women’s Stories of Immigration, Migration, and Transition”

The fifth annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium will be held Friday, May 6, 2016, through Saturday, May 7, 2016. American Book Award […]

Asali Solomon: a reading with the author of Disgruntled

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[ May 19, 2016; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Chapman Hall
Room 301
990 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus

Disgruntled, effortlessly funny and achingly poignant, follows eight-year-old Kenya from West Philadelphia to the suburbs, from public school to private, from childhood through adolescence, as she grows increasingly disgruntled by her inability to find any place or person that feels like home.

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of […]

Los amarres de la lengua: política, exilios y contiendas del idioma en Puerto Rico (1942-2016)

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Pictured is Lena Burgos-Lafuente.

[ May 12, 2016; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Pacific Hall, Rm 30
1025 University St.
UO campus

Lena Burgos-Lafuente, assistant professor of Spanish at SUNY Stony Brook, will lecture on the topic “Los amarres de la lengua: política, exilios y contiendas del idioma en Puerto Rico (1942-2016)” at Pacific Hall, Rm 30, on May 12 at 4 p.m.

[caption id="attachment_24274" align="alignright" width="145"] Lena Burgos-Lafuente[/caption]

Among many articles, Prof. Lena […]

“Imaginactivism”: Scholar Joan Haran to Spend Two Years at CSWS as the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow

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Dr. Joan Haran
December 9, 2015—December 1 marked the starting date of scholar Joan Haran’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship at the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon. Dr. Haran will be tracking attempts to adapt Starhawk’s novel The Fifth Sacred Thing as a transmedia phenomenon. First published in 1993 […]