School for Advanced Research (SAR)—Microfinance. Microfinance: Assessing the Economic and Cultural Implications of Microfinance on Poverty from Cross-Cultural Perspectives Research Team Seminar September 25–27, 2012 School for Advanced Research (SAR) Santa Fe, N.M. Milford Bateman, Chair Visiting Professor of Economics,…
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2012 CSWS NW Women Writers Symposium: MemoirFest Audio Recordings
Audio recordings now available for the 2012 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium: MemoirFest, held Saturday, May 12, 2012 on the University of Oregon campus. Morning session, with panelists Crystal Williams, Debra Gwartney, and Lidia Yuknavitch. Afternoon session, with panelists Dominick…
Two faculty win national award for anthology | Inside Oregon
Two faculty win national award for anthology | Inside Oregon. UO professors Michael Hames-García (Ethnic Studies) and Ernesto Javier Martínez (Ethnic Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies) were awarded the prestigious national Lambda Literary Award in the category of “best…
Ruth Ozeki, “A Tale for the Time Being” — Reading & Booksigning
Erb Memorial Union (EMU), Fir Room, 1222 E. 13th Ave. UO campus, Eugene FREE & open to the public Ruth Ozeki is a Canadian-American novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Her new novel, A Tale for the Time Being, was…
“Common Ground: Land, Language, Story” — the 2013 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium
May 11 panel & workshops: Eugene Public Library, 10th Ave. & Olive St. (100 W 10th Ave Eugene, OR 97401). Free and open to the public. Starting April 20, pre-register for limited spaces for the Saturday afternoon workshops at: 541-682-5450…
Romani Routes, a new book by Carol Silverman
Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora by Carol Silverman, professor and department head, UO Department of Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 2012) Over the past two decades, a steady stream of recordings, videos, feature films, festivals, and concerts…
