Category: People

Documentary by Gabriela Martínez to be shown during Border Film Week at the University of San Diego

Border Film Week – Events at the University of San Diego.
CSWS associate director Gabriela Martínez has been invited to screen her documentary Keep Your Eyes On Guatemala for the Border Film Week Series organized by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego. The documentary will be screened on March […]

“Agents of Change”—new CSWS documentary records a legacy of feminist research, teaching, and activism at the UO

Agents of Change: A legacy of feminist research, teaching, and activism at the University of Oregon
by Gabriela Martínez and Sonia De La Cruz (Creative Commons, copyright 2013)
Agents of Change chronicles the development of the University of Oregon Center for the Study of Women in Society and the UO Department of Women’s and Gender Studies within […]

CSWS Names First Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow at the 40th Anniversary Celebration Keynote Event

November 8, 2013
Eugene, OR – Canadian scholar and editor Kathryn Allan has been selected as the first ever recipient of the Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. Sponsored equally by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, Robert D. Clark Honors College, and the UO Libraries Special Collections and University Archives, the award […]

“Degrees of Freedom: Intimacy, Slavery, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Latin America” with Professor Michelle McKinley

[ January 27, 2014; 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Lewis Lounge, Knight Law Center
1515 Agate St.
UO campus
The University of Oregon School of Law presents the Bernard B. Kliks Professorship lecture:
“Degrees of Freedom: Intimacy, Slavery, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Latin America,” with Professor Michelle McKinley

How could enslaved women assert legal claims to personhood, wages, and virtue, when the law regarded them as mere property? […]

UO’s Richmond appointed presidential chair

Geri Richmond
“University of Oregon chemist Geraldine ‘Geri’ Richmond, who was named last year to the 25-member National Science Board, has been appointed to serve as the UO’s second-ever presidential chair. Richmond will serve as the UO’s presidential chair in science. She specializes in chemistry, materials science and chemical reactions on liquid surfaces.”
Read more: UO’s Richmond […]

CSWS: “Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives” JSMA Photo Exhibit

[ September 9, 2013 11:00 am to December 29, 2013 5:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_17214" align="alignright" width="214"] Photo caption: Patricia Harris Noyes (American, 1921-2010) / IRENE, BIG LIMIT CAFÉ, CABAZON, CALIFORNIA, 1948 / Gelatin silver print, 9-5/8 x 7-9/16 inches / Gift of the Estate of Patricia H. Noyes; 2010:19.1[/caption]

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
1430 Johnson Lane, UO campus

Gallery Talk: October 18  Noon to 1:00 p.m.

This special selection […]