Category: Gender

Caroline Forell receives the highest award given by the law school

Caroline Forell, Professor Emerita, UO School of Law, received the 2019 UO Law School Meritorious Service Award at law school graduation. 

Established in 1984, The Meritorious Service Award is the highest award given by the law school. It is given each year at commencement to a person or persons who has made extraordinary contributions to legal education […]

Jan. 3 deadline for Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship

Pictured is Ursula Le Guin speaking at CSWS's 40th Anniversary Celebration in 2013.

[ January 3, 2020; 5:00 pm; ]
Ursula Le Guin, 2013 / photo by Jack Liu.

Applications are now being taken for the 2020 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship to support special collections research in the UO Libraries. The fellowship is sponsored by UO Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Oregon.

The intention of the Le Guin Feminist Science […]

NALAC awards artist grant to Ernesto Martínez

Pictured is Ernesto Martinez.

February 20, 2019—Ernesto Javier Martínez has been awarded a $5,000 NFA Artist Grant from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC). An associate professor in the UO Department of Ethnic Studies, Martínez is also a member of the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Advisory Board.

Martínez is one […]

Alberto Mira: “Inocencia y experiencia: infancias diferentes en Estiu 1993 (Clara Simó) y Pa negre (Agustí Villaronga)”

Pictured is Alberto Mira.

[ March 6, 2019; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Room 240C
McKenzie Hall
UO campus

A public lecture by Alberto Mira, Oxford Brookes University

“Inocencia y experiencia: infancias diferentes en Estiu 1993 (Clara Simó) y Pa negre (Agustí Villaronga)”

Public lecture and QA: Wednesday March 6, 2019 3:30-5pm at 240C McKenzie

Additionally, there will be a workshop with graduate students and faculty: Wednesday March 6, 2019 12pm-1pm at Friendly 109.

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Miriam Abelson: Book Colloquium

[ May 10, 2019; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ]
Location: Browsing Room, Knight Library

Miriam Abelson returns to the University of Oregon for a colloquium, with a panel of commentators, to discuss her forthcoming book, Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America, due out in March from the University of Minnesota Press. This book is based on her PhD research.

Miriam […]

Book Celebration: “Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics”

Pictured is Lynn Fujiwara.

[ May 22, 2019; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ]
Alder Building, Conference Room, 818 E. 15th Ave., UO campus

Book Celebration: Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan this will include a panel discussion

Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics, edited by Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan (University of Washington Press, December 2018, 320 pages)

Lynn Fujiwara is an associate professor, University of Oregon Department of […]