Category: Women’s History

“Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives” Symposium — 40th celebration

[ November 8, 2013; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_16817" align="alignright" width="240"] Painting by Miriam Johnson / courtesy of Ben Johnson[/caption]

Ballroom
Erb Memorial Union
1222 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus map
PDF of Event Schedule

Friday, Nov. 8, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., the “Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives” Symposium explores four decades of feminist research and activism through five interwoven themes: women’s rights, violence against women, women’s health, activism and […]

CSWS Knight Library Display Spotlights 40 Years on Campus

[ September 16, 2013 to November 29, 2013. ] Knight Library, 1501 Kincaid St.

“40 Years Strong, A Timeline of Feminist Research, Teaching, and Activism on Campus” is currently on display at the Knight Library on the UO campus.  Researched by Jenée Wilde, a PhD candidate in English (Folklore) and CSWS development fellow, the display was developed in collaboration with Cristian Boboia, Image Services, UO Libraries, […]

Laura Edwards—“Women, Law, and Culture:  Rethinking Legal Change in the Civil War Era”

[ October 2, 2013 to October 4, 2013. ] [caption id="attachment_17089" align="alignright" width="158"] Laura Edwards, Duke University[/caption]

Time and Place TBA

This presentation is about the ways that ordinary people in the South, particularly African American women, contributed to the legal changes that we associate with the Reconstruction Amendments and top-down change. These groups had a much broader, expansive notion of “rights” and also of what […]

Prominent UO historian among those who filed an amicus brief in US Supreme Court case that contests the validity of the Defense of Marriage Act

Recent blog entries on the websites for Inside Higher Ed and the American Historical Association provide details of an amicus brief filed March 1 in US v. Windsor, a case before the U.S. Supreme Court contesting the validity of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The brief, signed by the American Historical Association and a […]

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Fembot coordinated an effort to write women into Wikipedia. Archived live streams are available on http://fembotcollective.org
The CSWS Fembot Project produces the Fembot website.

Writing Women into Wikipedia

[ March 7, 2014; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. March 8, 2014; 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Allen Hall
Room 221
1020 University St.
UO campus
Eugene, OR

In celebration of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month

Fembot, in collaboration with the ASUO Women’s Center, the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the School of Journalism and Communication and the UO Libraries is hosting events in Eugene, Oregon and online to write women into Wikipedia.

Friday, […]