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Homelessness and Home is the website of the Community Philosophy Institute in the UO Philosophy Department. The purpose of the website is “to support creative, intellectual, and practical address of the problems of homelessness. The UO Community Philosophy Institute seeks to consider contemporary homelessness in our own community of Eugene, Oregon, and beyond.”
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Category: Women in the NW
Stretched Thin—Book About Welfare Reform Written by UO Researchers Is Up for Prestigious Award
Authors Sandra Morgen (left), Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt.
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, and Welfare Reform was written by Sandra […]
‘Salmon is Everything’ sheds light on the fish kill that affected Native American life, spirituality: Oregon Daily Emerald
http://www.dailyemerald.com/2011/05/17/salmon-is-everything-sheds-light-on-the-fish-kill-that-affected-native-american-life/
Salmon Is Everything
[ May 19, 2011 8:00 pm to June 4, 2011 8:00 pm. ] 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….
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A community-based play about the Klamath River Watershed developed by members of the Karuk, Hupa, and Yurok […]
Community-Based Theatre Around Native Issues
[ May 20, 2011; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Hope Theatre
1109 Old Campus Lane
University of Oregon campus
A pre-play lecture for Salmon Is Everything
Marcie Rendon, playwright and member of the White Earth Anishinabe Nation
Sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society and Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities. Information: (541) 346-1789
Welfare Reform in a Time of Crisis
[ February 9, 2010; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Browsing Room, Knight Library
A moderated talk and book celebration with authors
Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, and Jill Weigt
Join CSWS and the UO Department of Sociology in a discussion and celebration of the publication of Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Workers and Welfare Reform. The event will include 10-minute talks by the three authors, followed by a […]
