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 from the 1960s through the 1990s will be kept alive through video interviews and archival documents […]

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

[ December 5, 2018; 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm. ] 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 a night of community-centered Native drama featuring faculty, staff, students, and community members from the UO/Eugene Native […]

Alisa Freedman TEDx Talk: “Female Exchange Students during the Postwar Era”

Pictured is Alisa Freedman giving her Tedx Talk.

 

June 1, 2018—Alisa Freedman, back from a sabbatical year doing research in Japan, recently gave a TEDx talk about her CSWS-supported research on Japanese women who studied in the U.S. from 1949-1966. Freedman teaches Japanese literature & film in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and is newly promoted to full professor.

 


7th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium

Pictured is Laila Lalami.

[ April 25, 2018; 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm. 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Free & open to the public
7th Annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium
“The Border and Its Meaning: Forgotten Stories”
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Panel Discussion: April 25, 3:00 – 4:30 PM  Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) Ford Lecture Hall, 1430 Johnson Lane, 97403 UO campus
Light reception: 2:30 – 3 p.m. JSMA Ford Lecture Hall

Laila Lalami, award-winning novelist and […]

Exchange Students as Cultural Ambassadors: Knight Library Exhibit

[ November 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016. ] “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. This group included 651 women. Among them were future leaders in fields as diverse as […]

2016-17 CSWS Jane Grant Fellowship and Graduate and Faculty Grant Awardees

Pictured is a historic photo of Jane Grant.

The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon recently awarded more than $66,000 in graduate student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender during the 2016-17 Academic Year. The research being funded includes projects focused all over the globe. Graduate teaching fellow Baran Germen was […]