Category: Women in the NW

Lesbian Oral History Project to become part of UO collections

Judith Raiskin (l) and Linda Long

Editor’s Note: CSWS is supporting this research through a CSWS Faculty Research Grant, with funds from the Mazie Giustina Endowment for Research on Women in the Northwest. September 10, 2018 (reprinted from Around the O)—The history of Eugene’s lesbian community…

Native Play Reading Series: “Salmon is Everything: Community-Based Theater on the Klamath Watershed”

Many Nations Longhouse 1630 Columbia Street, Eugene, OR Editor’s Note: Author Theresa May is an associate professor in theatre arts and a CSWS faculty affiliate whose research has been supported by CSWS. Come out to the Many Nations Longhouse for…

7th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium

Pictured is Laila Lalami.

Free & open to the public 7th Annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “The Border and Its Meaning: Forgotten Stories” Printable Poster PDF Panel Discussion: April 25, 3:00 – 4:30 PM  Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) Ford Lecture Hall,…

Exchange Students as Cultural Ambassadors: Knight Library Exhibit

“Between 1949 and 1966, at least 4,713 Japanese students studied at American universities with the best-known fellowships at the time—GARIOA (Government Account for Relief in Occupied Areas [1949 through 1951]) and Fulbright (established in 1952)—along with a few private scholarships.…