Category: Research

“Habits of Leaking: Of Sluts and Network Cards,” a seminar with Wayne Morse Chair Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

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Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Wayne Morse Chair visitor during winter term, will offer a lunchtime seminar at the Center for the Study of Women in Society. The date has been changed to February 19, 2015, at noon. Dr. Chun’s forthcoming article “Habits of Leaking: Of Sluts and Network Cards” will form the basis of […]

Ileana Rodríguez-Silva: “Gender and Class in the Silencing of Race in Puerto Rico”

[ February 6, 2015; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] Browsing Room, Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.   printable flyer
Public Talk

Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva is an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Washington, Department of History. She earned her B.A. at the Universidad de Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rodriguez-Silva is the […]

“I have come to my garden”: Ancient Jewish Constructions of Space and Gender—by Deborah Green

Winter 2014, CSWS Research Matters: “I have come to my garden”: Ancient Jewish Constructions of Space and Gender—by Deborah Green, Greenberg Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, Department of Religious Studies; Director, Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies.
Religious studies professor Deborah Green uses a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Tintoretto to explore […]

Brown Bag Discussion: “Feminist Approaches to Mandatory Reporting of Sexual Violence”

[ April 23, 2014; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Jane Grant  Room
330 Hendricks Hall
1408 University St.
A Brown Bag Discussion: “Feminist Approaches to Mandatory Reporting of Sexual Violence”
According to UO President Gottfredson’s message dated Dec. 7, 2012, “Oregon law requires that all University employees with credible evidence that any form of prohibited discrimination by or against students, faculty or staff is occurring have a duty […]

Ruth Milkman — “Gender and Labor: Comparing the Great Depression and the Great Recession”

[ April 23, 2014; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_19101" align="alignright" width="136"] Professor Ruth Milkman[/caption]

Living Learning Center
Room 101
Free & open to the public

A talk by Ruth Milkman, professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Professor Milkman’s talk and her current research revisit a topic she explored early in her career: the impact of economic crisis on women […]

CSWS Noon Talk: Megan Burke, “Heterosexuality, Sexual Violence and the Temporality of Femininity”

[ January 21, 2015; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Jane Grant Rm
330 Hendricks
1408 University
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“Heterosexuality, Sexual Violence and the Temporality of Femininity”
PhD candidate Megan Burke (philosophy) will give a lunch-time talk related to her dissertation research. This talk will examine the way in which sexual violence is integral to the production and lived experience of gendered subjectivity by focusing on the philosophical question of […]