Category: Research

A Conversation with Gabriela Martínez

Media, Democracy, and the Construction of Collective Memory Reprinted from 2014 CSWS Annual Review (published October 2014) CSWS last interviewed Gabriela Martínez for the Annual Review in summer 2012, when she was the incoming associate director of CSWS. Now entering…

Homelessness and Home: videos on homeless women in Eugene

Homelessness and Home is the website of the Community Philosophy Institute in the UO Philosophy Department. The purpose of the website is “to support creative, intellectual, and practical address of the problems of homelessness. The UO Community Philosophy Institute seeks…

Lorwin Lecture: James Braxton Peterson examines the triumphs and challenges of the Black Lives Matter movement

EMU Ballroom UO campus 1222 E. 13th Ave. “A Song, A Slogan, and A Service: Dispatches from the Movement for Black Lives” James Braxton Peterson, Africana Studies and English, Lehigh University The Oregon Humanities Center (OHC) is pleased to inaugurate…

The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education, a new book coedited by Ernesto Martínez

The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education coedited by Stephanie Fryberg and Ernesto Javier Martínez (Palgrave MacMillan, October 2014, 320 pp) Publisher’s synopsis “Many universities in the twenty-first century claim ‘diversity’ as a core value, but fall…

Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women’s Rights in Pakistan — a new book by Anita Weiss

Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women’s Rights in Pakistan (Palgrave Macmillan, October 2014) is the latest book by Anita M. Weiss, professor and head, UO Department of International Studies. Professor Weiss is a long-time CSWS faculty affiliate. Publisher’s synopsis “In Pakistan,…

Fathers still face stigma on family leave, Coltrane tells NYT

“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.”…