Category: CSWS Special Projects

Fembot Collective Launches Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology

The Fembot Collective launched its long anticipated online publication Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology in early November. The inaugural issue, “Conversations Across the Field,” features articles by Anne Balsamo and Alex Juhasz, Mia Consalvo, Sarah Kember,…

CSWS Director Carol Stabile on “open access” in Campus Technology digital magazine

August 28, 2012—Rewriting the Journal: With faculty balking at the high price of traditional academic journals, can other digital publishing options get traction? Campus Technology (…A more recent entrant to the open-access field is Ada: A Journal of Gender, New…

2012 CSWS NW Women Writers Symposium: MemoirFest Audio Recordings

Audio recordings now available for the 2012 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium: MemoirFest, held Saturday, May 12, 2012 on the University of Oregon campus. Morning session, with panelists Crystal Williams, Debra Gwartney, and Lidia Yuknavitch. Afternoon session, with panelists Dominick…

Stretched Thin—Book About Welfare Reform Written by UO Researchers Is Up for Prestigious Award

A book about poor families and welfare written by three feminist scholars—an anthropologist and two sociologists—is a finalist for the prestigious C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work,…

Salmon Is Everything

The Play: May 20 – June 4, 2011 Miller Theatre Complex University of Oregon; Eugene, OR UO Ticket office: (541) 346-4363 The story of the 2002 Fish Kill must be told again and again … and be remembered…. A community-based…