[ May 8, 2016; 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Sunday, May 8, 7:30 p.m. Musical performance by Mare Advertencia Lirika. Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave.
Mare, a Zapotec hip-hop artist from Oaxaca, Mexico, and founder of Advertencia Lirika, will appear on tour for her new CD, SiempreViva. Mare uses her rap as a tool to develop consciousness and to build networks within social […]
[ May 11, 2016; 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm. ] Global Scholars Hall
Room 123 (Great Room)
Poster PDF
Irma Velásquez, “Activism and Social Change in Postwar Guatemala.”
Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj will speak about activism and social change in postwar Guatemala in a talk at the Global Scholars Hall at 5 pm on May 11.
Irma Velásquez is a journalist, social anthropologist, and international spokeswoman who has been at […]
Dr. Lamia Karim’s book Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) recently came out in a Korean edition (Maybooks, 2015).
The book is a radical critique of the effects of microfinance NGOs, including the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh that went onto win the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Through ethnographic […]
[ May 6, 2016; 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm. May 7, 2016; 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. ] campus location: Knight Library, Browsing Rm
community location: downtown Eugene Public Library
#crossingborders for live tweeting at some events
FULL SCHEDULE: http://csws.uoregon.edu/events-2/2014-nwws/2016-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium/
5th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium
“Crossing Borders: Women’s Stories of Immigration, Migration, and Transition”
The fifth annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium will be held Friday, May 6, 2016, through Saturday, May 7, 2016. American Book Award […]
[ May 3, 2016; 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm. ] Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus
Dr. Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Department of History, University of California-Davis, “The Ancient and The Modern Customary and Civil Marriage & Family Law in Gabon”
This lecture is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s Gender in Africa and the African Diaspora Research Interest Group and the African Studies […]
Dr. Lamia Karim will deliver the keynote address at the 43rd Annual Western Departments of Sociology and Anthropology Undergraduate Research Conference. The conference will take place on Saturday, April 23, 2016 at Santa Clara University. This conference is the oldest such conference in the country. The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum […]
