Dr. Lamia Karim’s book Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) recently came out in a Korean edition (Maybooks, 2015). The book is a radical critique of the effects of microfinance NGOs, including…
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2016 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium (NWWS)
campus location: Knight Library, Browsing Rm community location: downtown Eugene Public Library #crossingborders for live tweeting at some events FULL SCHEDULE: http://csws.uoregon.edu/events-2/2014-nwws/2016-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium/ 5th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “Crossing Borders: Women’s Stories of Immigration, Migration, and Transition” The fifth…
Viet Thanh Nguyen: 2016 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in conversation with David Leiwei Li
Straub 156 1451 Onyx St. University of Oregon Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2016 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, will read from The Sympathizer and engage in conversation with David Leiwei Li, Collins Professor of English, University of Oregon. Mr.…
adrienne maree brown chosen as 2015-16 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow
December 4, 2015 Eugene, OR—adrienne maree brown, an independent science fiction scholar and a social justice activist, has been chosen as the 2015-16 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow. Brown lives in Detroit, Michigan, and is the coeditor of Octavia’s…
UO Feminist Scholar Lamia Karim Wins Prestigious Fellowship
November 17, 2015—Lamia Karim, an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, has been named a 2016-17 Fellow at the International Research Center “Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History” at Humboldt University in Berlin…
Reading with Lauren Kessler: Raising the Barre
Global Scholars Great Hall 1710 E. 15th Ave. UO campus The UO Bookstore presents a reading, signing and reception with Lauren Kessler, featuring her latest book, Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts and My Midlife Quest to Dance the…
