UO Today #545: Evie Shockley | University of Oregon Video
This interview with poet and scholar Evie Shockley took place during her visit to UO to participate in the April 2013 symposium “Racial Representations: African American Literature since 1975,” organized by Courtney Thorsson, UO assistant professor of English.
Category: NW Women Writers Symposium
“Too Many P’s”? Personal, Political, Publics and Potatoes — a conversation about the politics of food and kinship with novelist Ruth Ozeki
[ May 9, 2013; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
Fir Room, 1222 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus FREE & open to the public
“Too Many P’s”? Personal, Political, Publics and Potatoes
Ruth Ozeki will read from her novel, All Over Creation, and will be joined at the table by an interdisciplinary panel of scholars. We will talk about public engagement with agricultural technoscience, genetic […]
2014 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “Family, Animal, Story”
[ May 3, 2014; 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] Eugene Public Library
100 W. 10th St.
(10th & Olive)
Full details
Our keynote writer is 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award-winner and New York Times–bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler, whose novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves has opened up new ways of talking about family dynamics and the ethics of animal research.
Saturday’s panels and workshops will meet at Eugene Downtown […]
NWWS Reading: 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award winner Karen Joy Fowler
[ May 2, 2014; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_18165" align="alignright" width="128"] Karen Joy Fowler / photo by Brett Hall Jones[/caption]
Eugene Public Library
100 W. 10th St. (10th & Olive)
Eugene, OR
Full details
Karen Joy Fowler —the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award winner for fiction—will read from her work at Eugene Downtown Public Library, which will be open for the first Friday Art Walk. This event is free […]
NWWS Panel “Cheek by Jowl: Re-Writing the Human-Animal Relationship”
[ May 1, 2014; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Gerlinger Lounge
1468 University St.
UO campus
Full Schedule
Free & open to the public
The third annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium will be held Thursday May 1, 2014 through Saturday May 3 and will will open with a a conversation about how humans relate to nonhuman beings—whether family members, research subjects, trained workers, zoo dwellers, or free beings—what […]
Upcoming Reading: “The Missing Italian Girl,” by Barbara Corrado Pope
[ March 2, 2013; 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ] Browsing Room
Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.
Now out in hardback and available in eBook Formats Online, The Missing Italian Girl (Pegasus Books, February 2013) is the third crime novel in the Bernard Martin mystery series of Barbara Corrado Pope, professor emerita, UO Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.
March 2 at Knight Library marks the first reading from […]
