Courtney Thorsson
June 10, 2014—UO Research Excellence Awards announced | Oregon Research.
Courtney Thorsson, assistant professor of English and a CSWS faculty affiliate, is one of two University of Oregon faculty to receive a 2014 Early Career Award. CSWS supported Professor Thorsson’s foodways and literature research with a 2012 CSWS Faculty Research Award. She is the author […]
Category: Research
Running from Peril, Chasing Hope: Central American Children and the Refugee Crisis
[ December 3, 2014; 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Ford Alumni Center
1720 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus
A symposium to start a dialogue, grow awareness, and plan for action
Visit our website: education.uoregon.edu/ceqp-info
Agenda
2:00–4:00 P.M. Plenary Session featuring local experts and faculty members who will lead a discussion of the complex issues surrounding immigration policy and its impact on children and families
4:30–6:30 P.M. Featured Speakers: Julie Lopez, journalist […]
Michael Hames-García Edits Spring 2014 Aztlán Spotlight Dossier on Jotería Studies
Incoming CSWS director Michael Hames-García (professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies) edited a special “Dossier” section on jotería studies for the journal Aztlán (Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring 2014).
From the UCLA website description: “This collection of twelve articles, curated by Michael Hames-García (University of Oregon), offers a variety of perspectives on jotería studies, which Hames-García identifies as […]
“¡Santa!: Afro-Diasporic Ways of Being and Knowing,” with Ana-Maurine Lara
[ November 21, 2014; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_20646" align="alignright" width="166"] Ana-Maurine Lara[/caption]
204 Condon Hall
1321 Kincaid St.
UO campus
CLLAS Visiting Scholar Ana-Maurine Lara to deliver lecture about her research
Ana-Maurine Lara is the first ever Visiting Scholar with the UO Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies. She recently completed her PhD in African American Studies and Anthropology at Yale University. Her first academic […]
Native Studies Research Colloquium — Lynn Stephen
[ December 1, 2014; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_3969" align="alignright" width="232" class=" "] Professor Lynn Stephen (photo by Michael McDermott)[/caption]
Many Nations Longhouse
1630 Columbia St.
UO campus
Free & open to the public
(Bring Your Own Lunch)
“Transborder Gendered Violence and Resistance: Indigenous Women Migrants Seeking U.S. Asylum”
a talk by Dr. Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, and Director of the Center […]
Now available: “Salmon Is Everything: Community-Based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed,” by Theresa May
Salmon Is Everything: Community-Based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed, by Theresa May with Suzanne Burcell, Kathleen McCovey, and Jean O’Hara. Foreword by Gordon Bettles. (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies, 2014), 208 pages. ISBN 978-0-87071-746-8. Paperback, $19.95.
Synopsis from OSU Press: “After a devastating fish kill on the Klamath River, tribal members and theatre artist […]
