March 8, 2011: Court Upholds Yunus Sacking from Grameen — Wall Street Journal (A high court in Bangladesh Tuesday upheld a central bank decision last week that Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus must resign as head of the microfinance bank he founded, intensifying a struggle between Mr. Yunus and the government of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh […]
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CSWS Associate Director Lamia Karim Interviewed on NPR
Listen to UO anthropology professor Lamia Karim on NPR’s All Things Considered:
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/134208312/nobel-winner-removed-from-bank-he-founded
Lamia Karim, associate professor of the University of Oregon Department of Anthropology and associate director of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society, was interviewed March 2 on NPR for her expertise on microfinance and the Grameen Bank. The story, titled […]
Theresa May: Research Matters Winter 2011
Salmon, Women, and Rivers: Community-Based Performance Research by Theresa J. May, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon Department of Theatre Arts
Theresa J. May’s paper is now available online in the Winter 2011 issue of CSWS Research Matters. The UO Center for the Study of Women in Society supported May’s research with a Faculty Research Grant.
From the paper: […]
Honoring Excellence in Research and Teaching
The Center for the Study of Women in Society offers congratulations to our CSWS Affiliates in the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences who have won research, teaching, or community outreach awards from March 2010 through February 15, 2011. Recipients were honored February 15, 2011 at a reception in their honor in Gerlinger […]
Three CSWS Associates Receive 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards
January 2011—Michael Hames-Garcia, professor and head of the Ethnic Studies Department; Janis Weeks, professor of biology; and Tina Gutierez-Schmich, a professional development specialist in the Center on Diversity and Community, are among the winners of the 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards at the University of Oregon. All three are associated with the Center for […]
CSWS Noon Talk: “Sentence and Silence in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry”—Maggie Evans
[ January 18, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] 330 Hendricks Hall
Jane Grant Room
UO campus
Maggie Evans is a graduate student in the UO Department of English.
This presentation will focus on gendered ideas about speech and silence in the compressed, evasive poetry of Lorine Niedecker, a twentieth-century American poet. It will analyze Niedecker’s correspondence and poetry to explore the productive tension in modern and postmodern […]
