Tag: UO

Raka Ray: Acker-Morgen lecture to be rescheduled

Pictured is Raka Ray.

NOTE: This event will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21.

 “Masculinity and Capitalism: A Brief History of the Rise and Fall of a Foundational Relationship” Raka Ray, University of California, Berkeley

From the UC-Berkeley website: Raka Ray is a professor of sociology and South and Southeast Asia Studies and the dean of the Division of Social Sciences […]

Alicia Garza talk postponed, new date TBA

Pictured is Alicia Garza.

Note: This event will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21.

Alicia Garza

“Alicia Garza is an Oakland-based organizer, writer, public speaker and freedom dreamer who is currently the Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United […]

Postponed: Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Queer Studies Lecture

Pictured is Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes.

Note: This event will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21.

Queer Studies Lecture

“Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance”

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan 

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes lists his main research interests as queer/LGBT Hispanic Caribbean (Cuban, Dominican, Puerto Rican) studies, U.S. Latina/o, and Latin American literary, […]

Postponed: John Collins, “Recent Crises in Representation and Racialized Mediation”

Pictured is John Collins.

NOTE: This talk will be rescheduled for AY 2020-21.

Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium

John Collins, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Queens College & the CUNY Graduate Center

Since the mid-1990s, John Collins has conducted ethnographic research on UNESCO world heritage sites, urban restoration programs, and their relationships to national histories and racial politics in Brazil. This gave rise […]

Kate Mondloch named interim dean and vice provost of the Graduate School

October 31, 2019—Professor and CSWS faculty affiliate Kate Mondloch of the UO College of Design has been named interim dean and vice provost of the Graduate School. Currently, Mondloch is head of the College of Design’s history of art and architecture department. She has been at the UO since 2005.

Kate Mondloch

Provost and […]

Seven research teams get Resilience Initiative seed funding

Editor’s Note: Several faculty who are CSWS faculty affiliate and / or whose research has been supported previously by CSWS are among those selected for Resiliance Initiative seed funding. They are Alai Reyes-Santos, Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies; Kari Norgaard, Department of Sociology; and Yizhao Yang, School of Planning, Public Policy and Management.

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