Category: People

Professors Kristin Yarris & Rhacel Parrenas to discuss Yarris’s recent book

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[ March 7, 2018; 10:30 am to 11:30 am. ] Jane Grant Conference Room
330 Hendricks Hall
1408 University St.
UO campus

Please mark your calendars March 7 at 10:30 am for a discussion of Professor Kristin Yarris’s book, Care Across Generations: Solidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational Families, published by Stanford University Press.

This will be a discussion between Professor Rhacel Parrenas, visiting from the University of Southern California, and Professor […]

Deadline coming up January 29 for CSWS Research Grant Proposals

Gabriela Martínez (right) interviewing Araceli Padilla, news anchor at Channel 9

[ January 29, 2018; 5:00 pm; ] Grant guidelines and applications can be accessed online.

The Center for the Study of Women in Society maintains a number of competitive grant programs to support research and/or creative work on women and gender from a range of disciplines. CSWS research grants are available to University of Oregon faculty, staff (with the appropriate end degrees), and […]

Eileen Otis: Labor Research Colloquium Speaker Series

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[ February 28, 2018; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Miller Room
Erb Memorial Union
1222 E. 13th Ave.

“Walmart in China: How are Chinese workers confronting the world’s largest company?”

A Lecture Series Sponsored by the UO Labor Education & Research Center
Spring 2018

This year’s series will kick off on February 28, with a talk by Eileen Otis, associate professor, UO Department of Sociology, on how workers in China have […]

Veterans Speak: Identity, Community, Resistance Disruption

[ January 24, 2018; 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] 145 Straub Hall
1451 Onyx St.
UO campus

Veterans Speak: Identity, Community, Resistance Disruption

Please join us on January 24 (5:30-8:30 pm) in 145 Straub Hall on the University of Oregon Campus for the screening of A Soldier’s Home by U.S. Army veteran and UO doctoral candidate (SOJC) Andrew McLaughlin and Grounds for Resistance by Lisa Gilman, professor of […]

Amalia Gladhart Awarded NEA Literature Translation Fellowship

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The National Endowment for the Arts recently announced that Amalia Gladhart, a professor of Spanish and Head of the UO Department of Romance Languages, will receive a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, one of 22 literature translation fellowships for fiscal year 2018. Gladhart will translate Jaguars’ Tomb, a work of Angélica Gorodischer.
The […]

Judith Eisen Named AAAS Fellow

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Judith Eisen
November 20, 2018—CSWS faculty affiliate Judith Eisen is among six University of Oregon professors named as fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, among 390 other newly elected members. UO’s five other AAAS fellows and their areas of research are Alice Barkan, biology; Bruce Blonigen, economics; Julie Haack, chemistry and biochemistry; […]