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…
Category: Publications
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…
Priscilla Peña Ovalle: Thinking Through a Research Trajectory, From Hollywood Latinas to Hair/Style
CSWS Research Matters, Spring 2012 Thinking Through a Research Trajectory, From Hollywood Latinas to Hair/Style Latinas function as the in-between bodies that mediate and maintain the racial status quo of mainstream media, by Priscilla Peña Ovalle, Associate Professor, University of…
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…

