Category: RIGs

“Botanical Interventions: Rebuilding Landscapes, Reshaping Communities” — Oliver Kellhammer & Jennifer Burns Levin

[ May 9, 2013; 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm. ] Hendricks Hall
Hearth Rm (1st floor)
1408 University St., UO campus

A Fireside Conversation with Oliver Kellhammer, a permaculture artist, writer, and teacher specializing in ecological restoration and land art, and Jennifer Burns Levin, who teaches literature in the UO Clark Honors College. The two  will talk about Kellhammer’s interest in the shifting power relationships within public urban […]

Dr. Cheryl Mattingly — “Hope, Suffering and the Play of Possible Selves: A Narrative Perspective on the Good Life”

[ March 6, 2014; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Gerlinger Lounge
1468 University St.
UO campus

Dr. Cheryl Mattingly is a professor of anthropology in the Division of Occupational Science and Therapy at the University of Southern California. Her talk will draw on a 15-year research study with African-American families in Los Angeles. This study explores the experiences of parents of children with chronic illness, and formed […]

Karma Chávez — “Queer Fields, Queer Methods: Advancing an Activist Research Methodology”

[ May 23, 2013; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus
Public Lecture: “Queer Fields, Queer Methods: Advancing an Activist Research Methodology”
Given all the critiques of queer theory and queerness that have emerged in recent years, including pronouncements of queer theory’s impending demise, what’s the good in thinking about queer methodologies now? How should those invested in queer approaches and activist […]

The New Cult of Motherhood: From Rosemary’s Baby to Twilight Breaking Dawn

[ May 10, 2013; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] a

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Jacqua Academic Center
Auditorium
1615 E. 13th Ave.

A Talk by Kelly Oliver, W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University

Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Study of Women in Society.

Accommodations for people with disabilities will be provided by calling (541) 346-3386.

A couple minutes with Jennifer Burns Levin

A couple minutes with Jennifer Burns Levin | Inside Oregon.
Jennifer Burns Levin, adjunct instructor, UO Clark Honors College, is a CSWS faculty affiliate and coordinator of the CSWS Food in the Field Research Interest Group. She is also co-host of “Food for Thought” on KLCC radio. Inside Oregon published this interview on video in its […]

Article by CSWS Faculty Affiliate Kari Norgaard Cited in Newspaper

TWO RIVERS TRIBUNE ~ ONLINE | Tribe Invites UC Researcher to Study Acorns.
A paper by CSWS faculty affiliate and UO environmental sociologist Dr. Kari Norgaard was cited in a newspaper story about acorn studies on tribal land in the Klamath and Trinity River Communities. Norgaard presented her paper, “The Effects of Altered Diet on the […]