[ February 6, 2015; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] Browsing Room, Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St. printable flyer
Public Talk
Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva is an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Washington, Department of History. She earned her B.A. at the Universidad de Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rodriguez-Silva is the […]
[ October 3, 2013; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. October 4, 2013; 9:00 am to 10:30 am. ] “In The Wrong Body” tells the story of Mavi Susel, who underwent Cuba’s first gender reassignment operation in 1988. In addition this documentary explores such timely issues as the meaning of femininity in the macho and patriarchal society of Cuba.
Thursday Oct. 3: 4-5:30 p.m.
Public screening of documentary “In The Wrong Body” (RT 52 minutes) followed […]
CLLAS Guatemala Collaborative Team Receives Grant from UO Genocide Prevention Initiative | CLLAS.
Photo by Greg Krupa
Editor’s Note: CSWS associate director Gabriela Martinez and advisory board member Michelle McKinley are members of the Guatemala collaborative team awarded this grant. The Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) was incubated within CSWS before becoming an independent […]
Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering
edited by Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline Lundquist
Fordham University Press
November 2012
424 pages
A book that grew out of a 2009 conference that received substantial support from CSWS has been published by Fordham University Press. Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering, was edited by Sarah LaChance […]
[ May 19, 2014; 4:45 pm to 6:15 pm. ] Paulson Reading Room
Knight Library, 2nd Floor North
15th & Kincaid Street
University of Oregon
[caption id="attachment_19364" align="alignright" width="300"] Sample of original italic typeface designed by Ludovico Arrighi ca 1527.[/caption]
‘Firmar la Mano’: Embodiment and Movement in the Work of Humanist Scholarship
Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi (1475–1527) is an important figure in the history of calligraphy and type design. In this […]
[ May 15, 2014; 3:30 pm to 4:50 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_18817" align="alignright" width="160"] Jocelyn Viterna[/caption]
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 insurgents? What experiences do they have in guerrilla armies? What are the consequences of […]
