[ May 9, 2013; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
Fir Room, 1222 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus FREE & open to the public
“Too Many P’s”? Personal, Political, Publics and Potatoes
Ruth Ozeki will read from her novel, All Over Creation, and will be joined at the table by an interdisciplinary panel of scholars. We will talk about public engagement with agricultural technoscience, genetic […]
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NWWS Reading: 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award winner Karen Joy Fowler
[ May 2, 2014; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_18165" align="alignright" width="128"] Karen Joy Fowler / photo by Brett Hall Jones[/caption]
Eugene Public Library
100 W. 10th St. (10th & Olive)
Eugene, OR
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Karen Joy Fowler —the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award winner for fiction—will read from her work at Eugene Downtown Public Library, which will be open for the first Friday Art Walk. This event is free […]
“Racial Representations” — Symposium Highlights
Racial Representations panelists / photo by Chelsea Bullock.
Students, faculty and community members enjoyed a full day of literary readings and commentary on race at the University of Oregon on April 26, 2013, when a group of innovative scholars who specialize in African American literature gathered to share and discuss their research. “Racial Representations: African American […]
“Gender-Specific Measures of Economic Conditions and Child Abuse”—Jason Lindo | CSWS Research Matters
Jason Lindo
“Gender-Specific Measures of Economic Conditions and Child Abuse,” the Spring 2013 issue of CSWS Research Matters, examines data collected from California counties, with stark results. Written by Jason Lindo, assistant professor, University of Oregon Department of Economics, the paper takes a different tack than previous studies. Lindo writes that “by focusing on aggregate measures […]
Lorwin Lecture: “How Title IX Finally Won Its Rightful Seat at the Civil Rights Table of Justice — and Why the Legs Are Still So Wobbly,” with Wendy Murphy
[ April 3, 2014; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Columbia 150, UO campus
1215 East 13th Ave.
Eugene, OR 97403
Free & open to the public
Lawyer Wendy Murphy, JD, delivers the 2014 Lorwin Lecture on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This keynote lecture focuses on “civil rights violence” and the overt and covert subjugation of violence against women as something other than a civil rights harm. Wendy […]
Race & Ethnicity | New Book by Naomi Zack Now in Print
In Print: Race & Ethnicity | AroundtheO.
April 4, 2013 — “University of Oregon Philosophy Professor Naomi Zack’s newest publication, Race and Ethnicity (Bridgepoint Education, Inc., 2012), is a textbook that combines her earlier philosophical work examining the concept of race as culturally relative with a look at the social aspect of race being associated with […]
