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Kawai wins Eastern Oregon Film Festival awards

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Masami Kawai

 Masami Kawai, assistant professor of cinema studies at University of Oregon, won the Audience Choice Best Short and Curator’s Pick Director to Watch awards at the Eastern Oregon Film Festival for her 2018 film, “Tides.” Kawai also received the 2020 summer humanities and creative arts faculty grant for writing a feature film screenplay. Her work explores race, […]

Podcast features Diana Garvin’s research on fascism and misogyny in the Italian far-right

Pictured is Diana Garvin.

Diana Garvin

A recent podcast highlights the research of Diana Garvin, Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Studies in the Department of Romance Languages at the UO.

Treyf Podcast’s series on fascism and the far-right features an interview with Garvin about her research into Italian fascism’s attacks on women’s autonomy, as well as the inspiring ways that women […]

Ernesto Martínez wins Imagen Award for short film ‘La Serenata’

Editor’s Note: Ernesto Martínez is a member of the CSWS Advisory Board. His creative work has been supported in part through CSWS Faculty Research Grants and CSWS Special Project funding.

UO professor wins Imagen Award for short film ‘La Serenata’ / from Around the O

August 19, 2019—Ernesto Javier Martínez, an associate professor of ethnic studies at […]

Priscilla Ovalle named 2019 President-Elect for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies

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CSWS joins the Department of Cinema Studies in congratulating Priscilla Peña Ovalle, Cinema Studies associate professor and department head, as the 2019 President-Elect for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the leading scholarly organization in the United States dedicated to promoting a broad understanding of film, television, and related media through research and teaching grounded in the […]

Tannaz Farsi named 2019 Bonnie Bronson Fellow

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Editor’s Note: Tannaz Farsi is a CSWS faculty affiliate. The following announcement comes from the UO College of Design website.

February 22, 2019—The Bonnie Bronson Fund has named the School of Art + Design’s Associate Professor of Art Tannaz Farsi as the 28th annual Bonnie Bronson Fellow. The prestigious fellowship fosters artists based in the Pacific […]

NALAC awards artist grant to Ernesto Martínez

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February 20, 2019—Ernesto Javier Martínez has been awarded a $5,000 NFA Artist Grant from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC). An associate professor in the UO Department of Ethnic Studies, Martínez is also a member of the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Advisory Board.

Martínez is one […]