Category: RIGs

Laura Fair: “It Takes More Than Profits to Make a Man: Historical Understandings of Success Amongst Tanzanian Entrepreneurs”

[ May 14, 2015; 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm. ] Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.

Talk Title: “It Takes More Than Profits to Make a Man: Historical Understandings of Success Amongst Tanzanian Entrepreneurs”

Dr. Laura Fair is an associate professor of history at Michigan State University. Her current project is a wide-ranging study of commercial cinema in colonial and postcolonial Tanzania. Dr. Fair’s first book was Pastimes […]

Spiderwoman Theatre Residency

[ May 12, 2015; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. May 15, 2015; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. May 16, 2015; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] 5/12    2 pm  Many Nation’s Longhouse: Scholar’s Talk
5/15  7 pm    Spiderwoman Theatre Retrospective – Lecture presentation, Hope Theatre, Miller Theatre Complex, UO
5/16   7 pm  Story-weaving Sharing event — open to public

May 10-16, 2015
Muriel Miguel, co-founder and director of Spiderwoman Theatre Company, the oldest Native women’s theatre ensemble in North America, will be in residence […]

Film Showing: “The Supreme Price”

[ February 18, 2015; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
Free & open to the public

The Supreme Price, directed and produced by Joanna Lipper, is a feature length documentary film that traces the evolution of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Nigeria and efforts to increase the participation of women in leadership roles. Following the annulment of her father’s victory in Nigeria’s presidential […]

STAnDD is CSWS’s Newest Research Interest Group

December 1, 2014—Architecture graduate students Roxy Robles and Nicolette Stauffer are the coordinators of a new research interest group (RIG) at the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society.
STAnDD, which stands for “supporting the advancement of diversity in design,” held its first organizational meeting in the fall term of AY 2014-15. […]

CSWS Research Matters Fall 2014: Theresa May, “The Women and Rivers Project”

Fall 2014 CSWS Research Matters:
“The Women and Rivers Project” by Theresa May, Associate Professor, University of Oregon Department of Theatre Arts
A CSWS faculty research grant supports Theresa May’s collaborative creative project on women and rivers, which explores the relationships—both historic and contemporary—of women in the Pacific Northwest to the many rivers of our region. The […]

2014 CSWS Annual Review Now Available

If you are a CSWS faculty affiliate, research interest group member, supporter, contributor, or UO administrator, the 2014 CSWS Annual Review will be landing soon in your mailbox. You can also access this 28-page publication online now.
2014 CSWS Annual Review Contents

An Interview with Michael Hames-García, Director, CSWS

Special Section: Collaborative Research

The Collaboration Continuum, by Michael Hames-García
Collaboration […]