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 Vetri, Margarita Donnelly, Lauren Kessler, and Elizabeth Reis.
MemoirFest Program
CSWS Women Writers Project
Category: Publications
Two faculty win national award for anthology | Inside Oregon
Two faculty win national award for anthology | Inside Oregon.
Ernesto Martínez (l) & Michael Hames-García
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 LGBT anthology” for their co-edited book, Gay Latino Studies: A Critical […]
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 Oregon Department of English & Associate Director, Cinema Studies
“Just two years after publishing Dance and the Hollywood […]
Ruth Ozeki, “A Tale for the Time Being” — Reading & Booksigning
[ May 10, 2013; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] 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 published in March by Viking. She is also the author of My Year of Meats and All Over […]
“Common Ground: Land, Language, Story” — the 2013 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium
[ May 11, 2013; 9:00 am to 3:30 pm. ] 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 (Press 2).
The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon […]
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 has presented the music of Balkan Gypsies, or Roma, to Western audiences, who have greeted them with exceptional […]
