Category: People

Now in print: “Gender, Sex, Love in Poetic Dialogues of the Early Twentieth Century” by Dorothee Ostmeier

A CSWS-supported book project by Dorothee Ostmeier, University of Oregon professor of German and Folklore, is now in print. Here is a short summary of its content: The book “Gender, Sex, Liebe in poetischen Dialogen des frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts” (Gender,…

Road Scholars: Documentary Filmmaker Gabriela Martínez to present “Agents of Change”

George S. Turnbull Portland Center Shirley Papé Forum 70 NW Couch St., Floor 3R Portland, OR 97209 A CSWS Road Scholars Presentation printable poster PDF Award-winning documentary filmmaker Gabriela Martínez will present Agents of Change: A Legacy of Feminist Research,…

Karen Joy Fowler Wins PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize

Karen Joy Fowler Wins PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize – NYTimes.com. April 2, 2014—Best work of fiction by an American in the past year! Congratulations to author Karen Joy Fowler, who will headline this year’s CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium. Fowler is…

Opening of “Recipe: The Kitchen and Laboratory in the West, 1400-2000”

Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Please consider yourselves warmly invited to the opening of “Recipe: The Kitchen and Laboratory in the West, 1400-2000,” an exhibition of rare books and ephemera in the collections of the UO…

“I have come to my garden”: Ancient Jewish Constructions of Space and Gender—by Deborah Green

Winter 2014, CSWS Research Matters: “I have come to my garden”: Ancient Jewish Constructions of Space and Gender—by Deborah Green, Greenberg Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, Department of Religious Studies; Director, Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies.…