Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600–1700 by Michelle A. McKinley, Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon Cambridge University Press (Paperback, 2018) Part of Studies in Legal History Recently released in paperback, Fractional Freedoms is CSWS…
Redwood Auditorium Erb Memorial Union (EMU) 1222 E. 13th Ave. Film Screening & Discussion with film director Peter Bratt: DOLORES DOLORES HUERTA Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in…
Global Scholars Hall 130 1710 E. 15th Ave. UO campus Spirits’ Homecoming (Gwi-hyang) is a S. Korean fictional film that tells the story of young women who were taken from their homes in Korea (then a Japanese colony) and…
Today, March 8, 2017 – International Women’s Day – the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon stands in solidarity with women across the United States and the globe to illustrate the indispensable role…
On May 25, CSWS will celebrate the release of Director Michelle McKinley’s book, Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700 (Cambridge University Press, October 2016). The book explores domestic slavery and what Professor McKinley terms “fractional…
February 2, 2017—Cultural anthropologist Aletta Biersack, whose research in Papua, New Guinea, has been supported in part by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant, has two new volumes just out. The University of Oregon professor emerita of anthropology is coeditor of Gender…
