Category: Women’s History

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

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…

CSWS Knight Library Display Spotlights 40 Years on Campus

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…

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

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…

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…

WikiWomen Event Media Archives | Fembot Collective

WikiWomen Event Media Archives | Fembot Collective Fembot WikiWomen Event 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

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…