Category: Road Scholars

Road Scholars Presentation: Queens and Amazons in Renaissance Art and History

7/31/15
Queens and Amazons in Renaissance Art and History
This CSWS Road Scholars presentation offers 16th- and 17th-century literature and music—together with visual images of paintings, engravings, and sculptures —that portray women forcefully as queens and Amazons. he women in these roles display a confident assumption of equivalence with men, strong agency, and loyal friendship and, at […]

Road Scholars: Documentary Filmmaker Gabriela Martínez to present “Agents of Change”

[ March 18, 2015; 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] George S. Turnbull
Portland Center
Shirley Papé Forum
70 NW Couch St., Floor 3R
Portland, OR 97209

A CSWS Road Scholars Presentation
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Award-winning documentary filmmaker Gabriela Martínez will present Agents of Change: A Legacy of Feminist Research, Teaching and Activism at the University of Oregon, a film she produced with Sonia De La Cruz. The film, developed for the […]

5 Ways to Support Women’s Research and Creativity at CSWS

How to Help
To support the work of CSWS, call (541) 346-5015 or email csws@uoregon.edu. To send a check, mail to: Center for the Study of Women in Society, 1201 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1201
1. Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Over the past forty years, the Center for the Study of Women in Society […]

CSWS Noon Talk — Jane Grant: A Feminist Legacy

[ October 23, 2013; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Graduate Student Center
Susan Campbell Hall
Room 111

Jane Grant: A Feminist Legacy – This talk tells the story of Jane Grant’s impact on feminist history, from her co-founding of The New Yorker to her activism in early women’s rights movements, and the serendipitous events that brought her legacy to the University of Oregon and the Center for […]

CSWS Road Scholars Talk — Jane Grant: A Feminist Legacy

[ November 22, 2013; 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm. ] OSHER Lifelong Learning Center
Eugene, OR

Jane Grant: A Feminist Legacy

This talk tells the story of Jane Grant’s impact on feminist history, from her co-founding of The New Yorker to her activism in early women’s rights movements, and the serendipitous events that brought her legacy to the University of Oregon and the Center for the Study of […]

Road Scholar Talk: Carol Stabile, “Black and White and Red All Over: Women Writers and the Television Blacklist”

[ April 3, 2013; 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_16182" align="alignright" width="360"] Carol Stabile / 2013[/caption]

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Baker Downtown Center
975 High St., Eugene, ORa

A CSWS Road Scholar Community Presentation

In June 1950, a group calling itself American Business Consultants published Red Channels: A Report on Communist Influence in Broadcasting, a publication that came to be known as the “bible” of the blacklist. Although […]