UO Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. “Diana Abu-Jaber’s vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father with talks of Lake Ontario cookouts and feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert. These sensuously…
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Cuban science fiction scholar Yasmín S. Portales Machado to speak at CSWS
Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall 1408 University St. printable flyer PDF “In Search of Estraven III: Homophobia, Feminism & (Homo)Sexualities in Cuban Science Fiction of the 21st Century” A science fiction scholar and gay rights activist, Yasmín S.…
“To Gain Title to Our Bodies: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance in the Civil Rights Era,” a lecture by Danielle McGuire
375 McKenzie Hall 1101 Kincaid St. UO campus Free public lecture Danielle McGuire argues that Black women’s protests against sexual assault and interracial rape fueled the modern civil rights movement and that even the most well-known movement campaigns — the…
“Internal or Transnational? Zapotec Women’s Migration Dilemmas,” a CSWS Noon Talk with Iván Sandoval Cervantes
Jane Grant Room 330 Hendricks Hall UO campus printable flyer PDF For women of the Zapotec community of Santa Ana Zegache, discussing migration presents gender specific dilemmas. In this presentation, Iván Sandoval Cervantes provides an historical analysis of the…
Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles—a new book by Alaí Reyes-Santos
The research for this new book by Alaí Reyes-Santos, assistant professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, was supported in part by a CSWS Faculty Research Grant. Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles, by Alaí Reyes-Santos (Rutgers University…
CSWS Announces 2014-15 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellows
November 13, 2014—A classics professor and a PhD candidate in English, both from southeastern U.S. universities, have been named as recipients of the second annual Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. Professor Jennifer Rea is an associate professor of classics…
