Category: RIGs

Sacrificing Families: U.S. Policies and the Displacement of Central Americans

Knight Library, Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Free & open to public See also Globalization, Gender and Development Conference “Sacrificing Families: U.S. Policies and the Displacement of Central Americans,” with Leisy J. Abrego, Assistant Professor, UCLA César E. Chávez Department…

Beverly Stoeltje lecture: “Queen Mothers in Contemporary Asante in Ghana: Authority or Decorative Symbol?”

Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. Fall African Studies Lecture Series: Women and Gender in Africa Dr. Stoeltje is Emeritus Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. Over her long career, she has…

“Scientific Failures and the Loss of Trust: International Attempts at Malaria Elimination in Zanzibar 1900-2014,” a research talk by Melissa Graboyes

Graduate School Student Lounge Susan Campbell Hall 1431 Johnson Lane UO campus “Scientific Failures and the Loss of Trust: International Attempts at Malaria Elimination in Zanzibar 1900-2014” Melissa Graboyes, assistant director of the UO Department of History and the African…

“Same-Sex Intimacies in an Early Modern African Text about an Ethiopian Female Saint, ‘Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros’ (1672)”

Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. A Lecture by Professor Wendy Laura Belcher, Princeton University The 17th-century Ethiopian book The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Wälättä P̣eṭros features a life-long partnership between two women and the depiction of…

Johanna Crane: Who is Global Health For? Tenacious Assumptions in Global Health Science

Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. A Public Talk Johanna Crane is a medical anthropologist with a background in English whose research brings together history, science, technological studies, medical humanities, bioethics, and global health. Her book Scrambling for Africa:…