Category: People

“The S-Word: The Squaw Stereotype in American Popular Culture”— a Road Scholars lecture by Debra Merskin

Eugene Public Library 100 W. 10th Ave., Eugene, OR Free & open to the public A CSWS Road Scholars Lecture presented by Debra Merskin This presentation explores the term “squaw” as an element of discourse that frames a version of…

Women and the Broadcast Blacklist—Carol A. Stabile

Carol A. Stabile, “Women and the Broadcast Blacklist,” Communication Currents: A Publication of the National Communication Association (Volume 6 , Issue 5 – October 2011) “In June 1950, an organization called American Business Consultants published Red Channels: The Report of…

UO Doctoral Student Offers PowerPoint Presentation on Educational Reform

Under the current austerity regime forced on school districts by lack of tax revenue, imagining a more equitable school system that respects individuals may seem out of step with the business oriented forces at work in U.S. education policy. But…

River in the Sea: Tina Boscha’s novel now available as an e-book

Tina Boscha, instructor of composition in the University of Oregon Department of English, recently took matters into her own hands and self-published her novel as an e-book. “A few years back, I was a very fortunate recipient of a CSWS…

Identity Complex—a groundbreaking new book by Michael Hames-García

Identity Complex: Making the Case for Multiplicity Michael Hames-García, Professor, University of Oregon Department of Ethnic Studies University of Minnesota Press (August 2011) From the publisher: “Grounded in both theoretical and political practices—in the lived realities of people’s experience—Identity Complex…

Mollitude on Vimeo: Molly Barth, flute

Mollitude from BlueDot Productions on Vimeo. Grammy-Award winning flutist Molly Barth performs “Mollitude” from the Beta Collide album ‘Psst!Psst!’ The flute piece was composed in 2006 by Frederic Rzewski. Filmed and produced by Bluedot Productions at the Oregon Coast Heceta…