Category: Research

Irma Velásquez, “Activism and Social Change in Postwar Guatemala”

Pictured is Irma Velasquez.

[ May 11, 2016; 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm. ] Global Scholars Hall
Room 123 (Great Room)
Poster PDF

Irma Velásquez, “Activism and Social Change in Postwar Guatemala.”

Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj will speak about activism and social change in postwar Guatemala in a talk at the Global Scholars Hall at 5 pm on May 11.

Irma Velásquez is a journalist, social anthropologist, and international spokeswoman who has been at […]

Call for papers: open issue Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology

Editor’s Note: Ada is a publication of the Fembot Collective. Fembot is a CSWS Special Project.
Call for papers: Open issue
Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology | adanewmedia.org
Issue 10, forthcoming November 2016
http://fembotcollective.org/blog/2015/09/22/call-for-papers-issue-10-open-call/
Edited by Radhika Gajjala (Bowling Green State University) and Carol Stabile (University of Oregon)
We invite contributions to a peer-reviewed open call issue […]

Latina Feminists of the Latina/o Theatre Commons

[ April 14, 2016; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Hope Theatre
1109 Old Campus Lane
University of Oregon campus
FREE! Refreshments at 4:30pm
https://blogs.uoregon.edu/feministlatinas/

Latina / Latinx leadership in the arts has transformed since the days of el movimiento! The powerful art, music & teatro of the Chicano Rights movement of the 60s & 70s inspired generations and the changes just keep coming…

Playwrights, directors, theatre makers: Anne García-Romero, Teresa […]

NWWS documentary premiere “Sad Happiness: Cinthya’s Transborder Journey” with director Lynn Stephen

[ May 6, 2016; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Browsing Room
Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.
Eugene, OR  97403
UO campus

Opening event of the 2016 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium
Documentary Film Premiere:“Sad Happiness: Cinthya’s Transborder Journey,” followed by Q&A with the director. Browsing Room, Knight Library.
Directed by Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon (Anthropology and Ethnic Studies) and codirector of the Center […]

Elizabeth Armstrong, “Sex, Alcohol, & Violence: How Status Competition Creates Risk”

[ April 21, 2016; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Ford Alumni Center
Giustina Ballroom
1720 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus
PDF flyer

College professor Elizabeth A. Armstrong spent five years inhabiting a dorm room on the Indiana University campus while studying the party culture that dominates student social life. In a public lecture titled “Sex, Alcohol, and Violence: How Status Competition Creates Risk,” Dr. Armstrong will talk about what […]

Documentary Screening: Keep Your Eyes on Guatemala, with filmmaker Gabriela Martínez

[ May 18, 2016; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Straub 156
1451 Onyx St.
UO campus

Documentary Screening: Keep Your Eyes on Guatemala, produced and directed by Gabriela Martínez Escobar

Keep Your Eyes on Guatemala tells the story of Guatemala’s National Police Historical Archive intertwined with narratives of past human rights abuses and the dramatic effects they had on specific individuals and the nation as a whole. In […]