Source: ‘Water by the Spoonful’ to debut at Hope Theater | Around the O
CSWS faculty affiliate Theresa May directs the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Water by the Spoonful,” which will open at the Hope Theatre in the Miller Theatre Complex on the University of Oregon campus on Jan. 21. Tickets are free to UO students. […]
Category: Faculty affiliates
Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema, a new book by David Li
Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema
by David Leiwei Li (Routledge, March 2016, 230 pages)
Synopsis
CSWS faculty affiliate David Leiwei Li’s book Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema is due out soon and available for preorder. David Leiwei Li is a professor in the UO Department of English.
The book “investigates major Chinese-language films from mainland […]
Lamia Karim’s book Microfinance and Its Discontents published in a Korean edition
Dr. Lamia Karim’s book Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) recently came out in a Korean edition (Maybooks, 2015).
The book is a radical critique of the effects of microfinance NGOs, including the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh that went onto win the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Through ethnographic […]
Highest honor: Geri Richmond to receive Medal of Science
Geri Richmond
Editor’s Note: Geri Richmond is a CSWS Faculty Affiliate.
December 22, 2015—“Geri Richmond was about to board an airliner Saturday morning in Washington, D.C., to return home to Eugene when she got an email with news from the White House that stunned her: She will receive the National Medal of Science.
“‘I was really, really stunned, […]
Viet Thanh Nguyen: 2016 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in conversation with David Leiwei Li
[ June 2, 2016; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Straub 156
1451 Onyx St.
University of Oregon
Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2016 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, will read from The Sympathizer and engage in conversation with David Leiwei Li, Collins Professor of English, University of Oregon. Mr. Nguyen will also sign books.
Sponsored by the Collins Fund, UO Department of English.
David Li is a CSWS faculty […]
Dr. Lamia Karim will present keynote at upcoming conference at Santa Clara University
Dr. Lamia Karim will deliver the keynote address at the 43rd Annual Western Departments of Sociology and Anthropology Undergraduate Research Conference. The conference will take place on Saturday, April 23, 2016 at Santa Clara University. This conference is the oldest such conference in the country. The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum […]
