Category: NW Women Writers Symposium

NWWS documentary premiere “Sad Happiness: Cinthya’s Transborder Journey” with director Lynn Stephen

Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. Eugene, OR  97403 UO campus Opening event of the 2016 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium Documentary Film Premiere:“Sad Happiness: Cinthya’s Transborder Journey,” followed by Q&A with the director. Browsing Room, Knight Library. Directed…

Reading with Lauren Kessler: Raising the Barre

Global Scholars Great Hall 1710 E. 15th Ave. UO campus The UO Bookstore presents a reading, signing and reception with Lauren Kessler, featuring her latest book, Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts and My Midlife Quest to Dance the…

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Anarchist Aesthetics

Source: Public Books — Le Guin’s Anarchist Aesthetics October 15, 2015 — “What makes readers fall in love? You might want to start your answer by explaining Ursula Le Guin. I can only speak for one childhood—and one adulthood—spent reading…

▶ UO Today with Novella Carpenter – YouTube

Published on May 20, 2015 Novella Carpenter, a writer and urban farmer in Oakland, California. Her memoir Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer was published in 2009. Carpenter was a keynote author in “Our Daily Bread: Women’s Stories…

▶ UO Today with Diana Abu-Jaber – YouTube

Published on May 15, 2015 Diana Abu-Jaber, author of four novels Arabian Jazz, Crescent, Origin, and Birds of Paradise; as well as a memoir The Language of Baklava. Abu-Jaber was a keynote author in “Our Daily Bread: Women’s Stories of…

Bread 101 Wins a 2015 Pedagogy Award

The five-member teaching team for “Bread 101,” an interdisciplinary Clark Honors College class taught during the 2013-14 Academic Year, has won the 2015 Pedagogy Award from the national food studies organization, the Association for the Study of Food in Society.…