Category: Publications

Viet Thanh Nguyen: 2016 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in conversation with David Leiwei Li

Pictured is Viet Thanh Nguyen.

[ June 2, 2016; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] 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. Nguyen will also sign books.

Sponsored by the Collins Fund, UO Department of English.

David Li is a CSWS faculty […]

NWWS documentary premiere “Sad Happiness: Cinthya’s Transborder Journey” with director Lynn Stephen

[ May 6, 2016; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Browsing Room
Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.
Eugene, OR  97403
UO campus

Opening event of the 2016 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium
Documentary Film Premiere:“Sad Happiness: Cinthya’s Transborder Journey,” followed by Q&A with the director. Browsing Room, Knight Library.
Directed by Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon (Anthropology and Ethnic Studies) and codirector of the Center […]

Ms. Fembot 2016: A Digital Initiative for Civic Engagement

[ March 11, 2016 to March 12, 2016. ] Unable to join us in LA? Remote Participation Welcome! We’re amplifying #msfembot2016: A Digital Initiative for Civic Engagement! To join us remotely, register to be added to the contact sheet. Sign and post suggestions for content.

More information about Remote Participation.

Registration is now open for our Fembot event in March, #msfembot2016: A Digital Initiative for Civic […]

adrienne maree brown chosen as 2015-16 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow

adrienne maree brown, 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 Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, […]

UO Feminist Scholar Lamia Karim Wins Prestigious Fellowship

Lamia Karim
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 (IGK re:work) to complete her book manuscript Becoming Labor: Life Cycles of Female Garment […]

CSWS Research Matters Fall 2015: Ana-Maurine Lara’s “Landlines” explores the ideas of home and homeland

Ana-Maurine Lara
Fall 2015: CSWS Research Matters   See also: A Public Performance

“LANDLINES” by Ana-Maurine Lara, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Department of Anthropology
LANDLINES is a performance poetry project funded through the Oregon Arts Commission, and which explored ideas of home and homeland. This latest issue of CSWS Research Matters explores the research behind the project.

Dr. Ana-Maurine […]