Lawrence 166 1190 Franklin Blvd UO campus Flyer PDF Waging war has historically been an almost exclusively male endeavor. Yet over the past several decades, women have joined insurgent armies in significant and surprising numbers. Why do women become guerrilla…
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Roundtable: Domestic Slavery and Servitude in the Americas
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Dangerous Dependencies May 4 Program Guest presenters include: Michelle McKinley (University of Oregon, Law) “Dangerous Dependencies: Domestic Servitude and Degrees of Freedom in Seventeenth-Century Lima” Rachel O’Toole (UC-Irvine, History) “Manumitted but…
Symposium: “Place and Displacement in African American Literature”
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Eve Dunbar (Vassar), “Place and Displacement in the Ethnographic and Literary Writings of Zora Neale Hurston” Courtney Thorsson (U Oregon), “Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes” Emily Lordi (U Mass), “’Move’: Literary Historiography and the…
Women, Media, and Rebellion in Oaxaca
A documentary by Gabriela Martínez (RT 37 minutes) Illuminating Important Questions in 21st-Century Mexico This documentary by Gabriela Martínez, University of Oregon assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Communication, tells the story of a media takeover that changed the nature…
An Old Map, Little Black Fruits, and Female Spirits
From the Field: Americas Research Interest Group by Gabriela Martínez, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication and Stephanie Wood, Senior Research Associate, CSWS Today we went to some Zapotec communities not far from Oaxaca city, accompanied by Beatriz (“Bety”)…
Monoliths, Silk Worms, and Scholarships
From the Field: Americas Research Interest Group by Stephanie Wood, Senior Research Associate, CSWS Oaxaca, Mexico—On March 22nd Gabriela Martínez and I went deep into the Mixteca Alta to visit an archive in search of early manuscripts (kind of a…
