[ May 8, 2015; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_20551" align="alignright" width="257"] Breeze Harper[/caption]
UO campus
Gerlinger Alumni Lounge
1468 University St.
A. Breeze Harper, editor of the anthology Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak On Food, Identity, Health, and Society, and the author of the social justice novel Scars: A Black Lesbian Experience in Rural White New England (2014) will talk about her writing and activism. […]
Watch this videotaped interview with the director of the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS). Michael Hames-García, professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies, talks about his role as the first male director of CSWS. In addition he discusses his research on race and incarceration in the U.S., gender and sexuality, and theories […]
[ May 13, 2015; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Jane Grant Conference Room
330 Hendricks Hall
1408 University St.
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[caption id="attachment_21979" align="alignleft" width="105"] Yasmin Silvia Portales Machado[/caption]
“In Search of Estraven III: Homophobia, Feminism & (Homo)Sexualities in Cuban Science Fiction of the 21st Century”
A science fiction scholar and gay rights activist, Yasmín S. Portales Machado is a freelance journalist for cubaliteraria.cu and havanatimes.org. She is the […]
[ May 28, 2015; 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. ] 375 McKenzie Hall
1101 Kincaid St.
UO campus
Free public lecture
Danielle McGuire argues that Black women’s protests against sexual assault and interracial rape fueled the modern civil rights movement and that even the most well-known movement campaigns — the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott, the 1964 Freedom Summer, and the 1965 Selma March — are rooted in the struggle […]
[ April 22, 2015; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_21598" align="alignright" width="300"] photo by Iván Sandoval Cervantes[/caption]
Jane Grant Room
330 Hendricks Hall
UO campus
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For women of the Zapotec community of Santa Ana Zegache, discussing migration presents gender specific dilemmas. In this presentation, Iván Sandoval Cervantes provides an historical analysis of the different migration movements in which women from Santa Ana Zegache have participated: Zegacheñas […]
January 7, 2015—Science envoy Richmond now in Southeast Asia on official visit | Around the O.
Geri Richmond is making stops in Thailand and Vietnam this month in her first official trip as a U.S. science envoy.
Richmond, a UO chemistry professor and Presidential Chair, was among four science envoys named Dec. 4 by the U.S. State […]
