Category: Research

Karma R. Chávez Interview Featured in Fembot’s “Books Aren’t Dead”

Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for April 2014 is now available on the Fembot website. In this BAD interview Magie Ramírez (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington) talks with Karma R. Chávez (Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison), author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013).
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2014 CSWS Jane Grant Fellowship and Faculty and Graduate Student Grant Awardees

Jenée Wilde
http://csws.uoregon.edu/recent-grant-awardees/
March 31, 2014—The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon recently awarded almost $80,000 in graduate student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender during the 2014-15 Academic Year. Research projects funded include a documentary film focused on the daily difficulties of an extended […]

Feminist Museum Blog

http://thefeministmuseum.wordpress.com/
This graffiti board was one of several items on display at the Feminist Museum.
CSWS helped support the Feminist Museum’s first pop-up exhibition, on display at LaVerne Krause Gallery in early March 2014.
The Feminist Museum blog site now includes a timelapse video of the installation, a video tour of the space, and photos of paintings, sculptures, […]

Now in print: “Gender, Sex, Love in Poetic Dialogues of the Early Twentieth Century” by Dorothee Ostmeier

A CSWS-supported book project by Dorothee Ostmeier, University of Oregon professor of German and Folklore, is now in print.
Here is a short summary of its content:
The book “Gender, Sex, Liebe in poetischen Dialogen des frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts” (Gender, Sex, Love in Poetic Dialogues of the Early Twentieth Century) puts actual poetic dialogues—poems exchanged between lovers […]

Jafari Sinclaire Allen: “Black/Queer Here & There: Ethnography of An Idea”

[ March 11, 2015; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Erb Memorial Union
Gumwood Rm
1222 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus

Jafari Sinclaire Allen will give a talk on “Black/Queer Here & There: Ethnography of An Idea” on March 11. Dr. Allen is an associate professor of African American studies and anthropology at Yale University who works at the intersections of [queer] sexuality, gender and blackness. He is also […]

Mary E. Wood, “Life Writing and Schizophrenia: Encounters at the Edge of Meaning”

[ March 3, 2015; 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. ] Humanities Center Conference Rm (159 PLC)
1415 Kincaid St.
Oregon Humanities Center: Faculty Author Series
Mary E. Wood, UO Department of English, will discuss her book Life Writing and Schizophrenia: Encounters at the Edge of Meaning on Tuesday, March 3, 2015. at 3:30 p.m. in the Humanities Center Conference Room. Professor Wood is a member of the CSWS […]