Category: Gender

Queer Studies Lecture: Chandan Reddy

[ May 9, 2019; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ]
Knight LibraryBrowsing Room1501 Kincaid St.

“Convergence, Dissymmetry, Duplicity: Enactments of Queer of Color Critique in the Era of Administrative Violence”

Queer Studies Lecture: Chandan Reddy

Chandan Reddy is an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington.

This event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society […]

Canceled: Raka Ray: 2019 Acker-Morgen Memorial Lecture

Pictured is Raka Ray.

[ April 25, 2019; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] This talk has been canceled.
Talk: 3:30 – 5 pm
Light refreshments: 3 – 3:30 pm
Ford Lecture Hall, JSMA
1430 Johnson Lane
UO campus
“Masculinity and Capitalism: A Brief History of the Rise and Fall of a Foundational Relationship”
Raka Ray, University of California, Berkeley
Raka Ray is professor of sociology and South and Southeast Asia studies, and the present Chair of […]

Mignon Moore: “Towards a Sociocultural History of Black Lesbian Sexuality and Community”

[ April 12, 2019; 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. ]
Knight Library Browsing Room

Sally Miller Gearhart Lecture in Lesbian Studies

Mignon Moore, Professor of Sociology and Department Chair, Barnard College and Columbia University

“Towards a Sociocultural History of Black Lesbian Sexuality and Community”

This work examines the development of community and identity around sexual desire for black sexual minority women in the  1950s and early 1960s.  Drawing from […]

New children’s book, movie put a song in professor’s heart

Editor’s note: CSWS is one of several UO units that awarded research funds to Prof. Ernesto Javier Martínez in support of this creative work.
A new book and film have a University of Oregon professor singing a happy tune.
December 10, 2018 (from Around the O)—Ernesto Javier Martínez, an associate professor of ethnic studies at the UO, […]

Scholar V Varun Chaudhry joins the CSWS staff as research assistant

Pictured is Varun Chaudhry.

CSWS welcomes scholar V Varun Chaudhry to the staff as pro tem research assistant.
Chaudhry is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University. His work focuses on the institutionalization of “transgender” in nonprofit and funding agencies through ethnographic research in Philadelphia, PA.
V Varun Chaudhry
V’s research has been generously supported by the Social […]

Queering Teacher Education Curriculum authors win an article of the year award

Nov. 9 – Three University of Oregon faculty members in the College of Education’s education studies earned the 2018 Francis P. Hunkins Article of the Year Award from the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum. Jerry Rosiek, Alison Schmitke and Julie Heffeman wrote “Queering Teacher Education Curriculum: A Case Study of Lessons Learned in the […]