2016, Fall: CSWS Research Matters
“The Life of Paper, a Poetics: Letters and Mass Incarceration in Global California,” by Sharon Luk, Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Department of English
Sharon Luk discusses the content of her book, now under review and scheduled for publication in 2018. This book aims not only to denaturalize the geographic borders, political-economic […]
Category: Research
Exchange Students as Cultural Ambassadors: Knight Library Exhibit
[ November 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. ] “Between 1949 and 1966, at least 4,713 Japanese students studied at American universities with the best-known fellowships at the time—GARIOA (Government Account for Relief in Occupied Areas [1949 through 1951]) and Fulbright (established in 1952)—along with a few private scholarships. This group included 651 women. Among them were future leaders in fields as diverse as […]
Winona LaDuke: “Rights of Nature”
[ November 19, 2016; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Erb Memorial Union
EMU Ballroom
1222 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus
Winona LaDuke is a celebrated Native American activist and leader, environmentalist, speaker, and author. Residing on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, Ms. LaDuke is the Executive Director of Honor the Earth, where she works on the national level to advance Native environmental issues and sustainable Native […]
Now live: Ada Issue no. 10 – Fembot Collective
Congratulations to Issue Editors Carol Stabile (University of Oregon), Radhika Gajjala (Bowling Green State University), and Sarah T. Hamid for the launch of Ada: A Journal of New Media and Technology, Issue no. 10. Ada Issue no. 10, offers scholarly analyses that attempt to make sense of the various approaches to gender and race […]
2016 CSWS Annual Review now available
2016 CSWS Annual Review
CSWS is pleased to announce that the 2016 CSWS Annual Review is now available for your reading pleasure. If you are on our mailing list as a CSWS faculty affiliate, supporter, contributor, or UO administrator, the 2016 CSWS Annual Review should soon be arriving in your mailbox. You can also access this […]
Women in physics face big hurdles — still
Persistent biases continue to affect the numbers of female physicists.
August 1, 2016: “There are more women in the sciences than ever before. They hold leading faculty and administrative positions while their representation in fields such as biology, sociology and psychology has increased. Yet the physical sciences are woefully behind when it comes to the number […]