[ December 1, 2016; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] Source: Dr. Alexis Lothian delivers first of two 2017 Sally Miller Gearhart Lecture(s) in Lesbian Studies | Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
Title: Queer Longings in Straight Futures: Notes Toward a Prehistory for Lesbian Speculation
Speaker: Dr. Alexis Lothian
December 1, 2016, 4 – 5:30 pm
Knight Library Browsing Room
Description: The story of lesbian science fiction is generally […]
Ed Chang
In a lecture titled “Brown Skins, White Avatars: Racebending and Straightwashing in Digital Games,” Edmond Chang spoke about how video games like Assassin’s Creed and World of Warcraft “manipulate race and sexuality, reinforce stereotypes, and sometimes lack diversity.”
Chang, a CSWS faculty affiliate and visiting assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at University of […]
[ May 12, 2016; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_23398" align="alignright" width="100"] Sanyu Mojola[/caption]
Knight Library
Studio A
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus
A lecture sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Gender in Africa and the African Diaspora Research Interest Group. Sanyu A. Mojola is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author […]
Ellen Herman
CSWS faculty affiliate Ellen Herman, professor and head of the UO Department of History, was cited as part of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality.
July 6, 2015—“Ellen Herman had a busy day when the Supreme Court ruled about marriage equality because she and colleagues had a hand to play in it.
“As […]
“Fathers who take time off to bond with a new child face many of the same workplace repercussions as women, interim UO President Scott Coltrane told The New York Times for an article that appeared online Friday, Nov. 7, 2014.” See this story in its entirety at: Fathers still face stigma on family leave, Coltrane […]
[ October 5, 2015 4:00 pm to October 6, 2015 6:00 pm. ]
Reception following the Oct. 6 panel discussion
Seminar: Modernity and Sex in China
Oct. 5, 2015 | 4:00 P.M.
101 Peterson Hall
935 E. 13th
Jin Jiang, Department of History, East China Normal University, Shanghai, “Concepts of Sex in Modern China.” During the period of modernization in the early 20th century, the concept of sex, xing, became highly politicized as […]
