Gabriela Martínez speaking at the CSWS 40th Anniversary Celebration / photo by Jack Liu.
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 her third and final […]
Category: Research
Homelessness and Home: videos on homeless women in Eugene
Jana Thrift, videographer
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 to consider contemporary homelessness in our own community of Eugene, Oregon, and beyond.”
The […]
Lorwin Lecture: James Braxton Peterson examines the triumphs and challenges of the Black Lives Matter movement
[ October 22, 2015; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] 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 its year of programming on the theme of “Justice” with a visit by noted hip-hop scholar, social commentator, and social […]
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 short in transforming institutional practices. The disparity between what universities claim as a value and what they accomplish […]
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, myriad constituencies are grappling with reinterpreting women’s rights. This book analyzes the Government of Pakistan’s construction of […]
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.” See this story in its entirety at: Fathers still face stigma on family leave, Coltrane […]
