Category: Research

Romani (Gypsy) Women and Activism: Challenges and Opportunities

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[ May 24, 2013; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_16536" align="alignright" width="250"] “Do not sterilize our women” (Czech Republic, 2008).[/caption]

204 Condon
1321 Kincaid
UO campus
Department of Anthropology Colloquium
Romani (Gypsy) Women and Activism: Challenges and Opportunities
Professor Angela Kocze is a visiting Fulbright Fellow in Women’s and Gender Studies at Wake Forest University. She holds a PhD in anthropology (2011) from Central European University.

Roma, Europe’s largest minority […]

CSWS-funded project takes a close look at traditional Western discourse surrounding female genital cutting

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Who Defines “Mutilation”? Challenging Imperialism in the Discourse of Female Genital Cutting
Courtney Smith (back row, center)
by Courtney Smith / From: Feminist Formations / Volume 23, Issue 1, Spring 2011 /pp. 25-46 | 10.1353/ff.2011.0009
See also: global.gender.current » Blog Archive » Unpacking female body “mutilation” in Senegal and the U.S.
Courtney Smith received a CSWS Graduate Student Research Grant […]

Book Talk — Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda

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[ April 24, 2013; 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm. ] 111 Alder Building
818 E. 15th Ave.

Deb Vargas is an associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of California at Riverside. She earned her PhD in sociology with an emphasis in feminist studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her research includes Chicano and Latino cultural studies, critical race feminisms, queer-of-color critique, popular […]

The New Cult of Motherhood: From Rosemary’s Baby to Twilight Breaking Dawn

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[ May 10, 2013; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] a

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Jacqua Academic Center
Auditorium
1615 E. 13th Ave.

A Talk by Kelly Oliver, W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University

Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Study of Women in Society.

Accommodations for people with disabilities will be provided by calling (541) 346-3386.

“Conjugal Chains” — Michelle McKinley — Works-in-Progress Talk

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[ May 10, 2013; 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Knight Law School
Faculty Lounge
UO campus

Discussion of Michelle McKinley’s work-in-progress. McKinley is an associate professor of law, UO School of Law, and a member of the CSWS Advisory Board.

Commentators are: Carlos Aguirre, professor of history, University of Oregon; and Barbara Welke, professor, of history and law, University of Minnesota.

For the abstract and chapter, contact: Michelle McKinley, […]

“Bachelors, Boxing, and Boy-ology: American Catholicism in the ‘City of Men’, 1880-1930”

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[ March 6, 2013; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] 375 McKenzie
1101 Kincaid St.
UO campus

Professor Amy Koehlinger’s lecture derives from her forthcoming book, Rosaries and Rope Burns: Boxing and Manhood in American Catholicism, 1890-1970. Koehlinger holds a Ph.D in religious studies from Yale and an M.A. in history from the University of Oregon. She has published widely on the history of American Catholicism and was […]