Ben Linder Room Erb Memorial Union 1222 E. 13th Ave. Presented by Alison Dundes Renteln, Professor of Political Science, Anthropology, Law, and Public Policy, University of Southern California Immigrants often have to give up their customs to conform to the…
Category: Women’s Rights
“The New Anti-Rape Movement on Campus: Networked Survivors Fighting for Reform” — Caroline Heldman and Danielle Dirks
Fenton Hall, Room 110 1021 E. 13th Ave. UO campus CSWS Presents the 2013–2014 Lorwin Lecture Series Caroline Heldman and Danielle Dirks are leaders in the fight to strengthen campus sexual-assault policies and enforcement. In their role as professors at…
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…
Juan Carlos Areán: “Transforming Men to End Violence Against Women”
Lane Community College Downtown Center 101 W. 10th Ave., Eugene, OR Mr. Juan Carlos Areán is an internationally recognized public speaker, trainer and facilitator, published author and documentary film producer. Since 1991, he has worked to engage men across different…
Lorwin Lecture: “How Title IX Finally Won Its Rightful Seat at the Civil Rights Table of Justice — and Why the Legs Are Still So Wobbly,” with Wendy Murphy
Columbia 150, UO campus 1215 East 13th Ave. Eugene, OR 97403 Free & open to the public Lawyer Wendy Murphy, JD, delivers the 2014 Lorwin Lecture on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This keynote lecture focuses on “civil rights violence”…
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…
