May 4, 2012—Dozens of faculty members, administrators, visiting scholars, and students participated in a roundtable organized by law professor Michelle McKinley and held at the UO Knight Library on May 4. “Dangerous Dependencies: Domestic Slavery and Servitude in the Americas”…
Category: RIGs
Jennifer Burns Levin Interviewed on UO Today
UO Today week of April 23, 2012: CSWS faculty affiliate and Food in the Field RIG coordinator Jennifer Burns Levin (Literature, Clark Honors College) discusses her interests in James Joyce, Modernist literature, and food studies. She is a co-host on…
UO Symposium on African American Literature Featured Outstanding Scholars
March 2, 2012—More than a hundred students, faculty and community members attended the symposium “Place and Displacement in African American Literature,” which took place in the Browsing Room of the UO Knight Library on March 2. Courtney Thorsson, a University…
Food in the Field—a new CSWS Research Interest Group
“Food in the Field” is a new CSWS interdisciplinary research interest group (RIG) that investigates ideas in the field of food studies, the operations of cultural fields related to food consumption, and the gendered labor that takes place in the…
UO Today #478: Theresa May and Gordon Bettles
UO Today #478: Theresa May and Gordon Bettles Gordon Bettles, steward of the UO’s Many Nations Longhouse and member of the Klamath tribe, appears with Theresa May, Theatre Arts and codeveloper of the play “Salmon is Everything.” They talk…
“Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes”—Courtney Thorsson
330 Hendricks Hall Jane Grant Room UO campus FITF Works-in-Progress Series “Vertamae Grosvenor’s Revolutionary Recipes” Abstract: Professor Thorsson will be discussing her work in progress, “Revolutionary Recipes: Foodways and African American Literature.” “Revolutionary Recipes” argues that a group of African…
