Category: Women’s History

Ruth Milkman — “Gender and Labor: Comparing the Great Depression and the Great Recession”

[ April 23, 2014; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_19101" align="alignright" width="136"] Professor Ruth Milkman[/caption]

Living Learning Center
Room 101
Free & open to the public

A talk by Ruth Milkman, professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Professor Milkman’s talk and her current research revisit a topic she explored early in her career: the impact of economic crisis on women […]

A Brief Review: CSWS 40th Anniversary Celebration

Crowd Panorama: A Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin / photo by Jack Liu
Commemorative Schedule Booklet   40th Anniversary photos   More 40th photos
More than a thousand people attended the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, which took place November 7 – 9, 2013, at the Erb Memorial Union and […]

CSWS 40th Anniversary Featured in UO’s Student-Run Emerald Media

UO Center for Women in Society celebrates 40th anniversary and strive for equality | Emerald Media. Story by Natalie Maier.
“We’ve come a long way and we’ve got a long way to go,” Jenée Wilde, one of the main organizers of the 40th anniversary said. “What’s very revealing to me is that there are a lot of […]

“Agents of Change”—new CSWS documentary records a legacy of feminist research, teaching, and activism at the UO

Agents of Change: A legacy of feminist research, teaching, and activism at the University of Oregon
by Gabriela Martínez and Sonia De La Cruz (Creative Commons, copyright 2013)
Agents of Change chronicles the development of the University of Oregon Center for the Study of Women in Society and the UO Department of Women’s and Gender Studies within […]

CSWS 40th Anniversary Promo Video

Produced by Pamela Cressall. Special thanks to OR Media, UO School of Journalism and Communication.

Sally Miller Gearhart “Worlds Beyond World” Symposium: Feminist Utopian Thought

[ November 9, 2013; ] EMU Ballroom
UO campus map
Full schedule PDF. For more information about 40th anniversary events, go to: http://csws.uoregon.edu/?page_id=8612 
Sally Miller Gearhart “Worlds Beyond World” Symposium: Feminist Utopian Thought
In this symposium, authors and cultural critics explore feminist creative production and the roles of speculative fiction and utopian ideas in imagining feminist futures.

Friday, Nov. 8

6:30-8:30 p.m. – “A Conversation with […]