1991-92 Events

Faculty Presentations

  • "Teaching Women in Prehistory": Madonna Moss, anthropology
  • "The Situation of Women in Classified Staff at the University of Oregon": Li11da King, Office of Human Resources
  • "'The Ombudswoman and Women's Needs on Campus": Janet Wentworth, ombud officer
  • "Swedish Women. Are They Living at the End of Social Democracy?": Joan Acker, sociology
  • "Discussion of Oregon Economy, Higher Education, and Measure 5": Margaret Hallock, Labor Education and Research Center
  • "Reading from her new novel, In Flight": Diana Abu-Jaber, English
  • "Access to Library Resources in Women's Studies": Cheryl Kern-Simirenko and Sara Brownmiller, UO Library
  • "Mothers, Children, and Consumer Culture": Ellen Seiter, speech
  • "Consumer Reports: Gender, Race, Age, and Control of Work in the Service Sector": Linda Fuller, sociology
  • "Uncomfortably Close Encounters: Sexual Assault in the Conquest of Lahn America": Stephanie Wood, history
  • "Research Conversation: Autobiography and Narrative in the Research Process": Mary Romero, sociology; Mary Wood, English; Morton Gernsbacher, psychology
  • "Research Conversation: The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Collaborative Research": Suzanne Clark, English; Linda Ede, Oregon State University; Patricia Gwartney Gibbs, sociology; Marie Harvey, school and community health; Denise Lach, sociology
  • "Research Conversation: Making Research Make a Difference beyond the University": Margaret Hallock, Labor Education and Research Center; Marsha Ritzdorf, women's studies and planning, public policy and management. Carol Silverman, anthropology.
  • "Research Conversation: Integrating Gender, Race, and Class into the Research Process": Diana Abu-Jaber, English; Debbie LaCroix, education; Sandra Morgen, CSWS; Mary Romero, sociology

Speakers

  • "Commemoration and Recognition of Human Rights Work in Latin America": Barbara Kingsolver, author, Cultural Forum, UO Bookstore, Oregon Humanities Center, Associated Students of the University of Oregon
  • "Black History Month-a Reading": Colleen McElroy, poet, University of Washington; Creative Writing Program, Black Student Union
  • "Women, Politics, and the New Society in Hungary": Eniko Bollobas, deputy ambassador of Hungary to the United States; Russian and East European Studies Center
  • "The Maternal Body and the State": Ruth Perry, Massachusetts Institute Technology; Department of English
  • "Appropriate Technologies for Developing Countries' Health Programs for Women": Elizabeth Abu-Haydar, Programs for Appropriate Technology in Health Seattle; lnternational Studies Program
  • "Reading from Her Book, Voices from a Promised Land": Penny Rosenwasser, producer and broadcaster, Pacifica Radio
  • "Building a Healthy America": Helen Caldicott, physician, activist, Associated Students of the University of Oregon, PeaceWorks, Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament, UO Women for Peace
  • "The Lesbian Body in Latina Cultural Production: Expanding Race and Gender Categories in Gay and Lesbian Studies": Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, University of Washington President's Task Force on Lesbian and Gay Concerns
  • "Exploring Gay and Lesbian Latin American Writing": David Fosler, Arizona State University, President's Task Force on Lesbian and Gay Concerns; Department of Romance Languages; Oregon Humanities Center; MEChA; Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Alliance; Comparative Literature Program
  • "Czechoslovakia and the New Europe": Rita Klimova, ambassador of Czech and Slovak Republics to the United States
  • "Seduced and Abandoned· Lesbian Cultural Practice": Sue Ellen Case, University of California, Riverside President's Task Force on Lesbian and Gay Concerns
  • "Women with Cancer Confront an Epidemic": Judith Brady, editor; Mother Kali's Bookstore
  • "Evolution of Uzbek Women's Dance in the Twentieth Century ": Laurel Gray, Uzbek Dance Society of America, Dance Oregon, Oregon Ethnic Dance Theatre, Department of Dance, Office of International Affairs
  • "The Politics of Refugees in Canada": Gillian Creese, University of British Columbia, Canadian Studies Committee, Department of Sociology, Division of Educational Policy mid-Management
  • "Assault on Equality: The New World Disorder": Angela Gilliam, Evergreen State College; Folklore and Ethnic Studies Program
  • "Reaffirming a Sociology for Women": Dorothy Smith, CSWS visiting scholar from Ontario; Institute for Studies in Education
  • "Queer and Now": Eve Sedgwick, Duke University, President's Task Force on Lesbian and Gay Concerns
  • "Personal Experiences as an Artist and Recent Experience as a 'De-fundee' of the National Endowment for the Arts": Karen Finley, performing and visual artist; Hult Center, Cultural Forum, Oregon Humanities Center
  • "Honduras: The Fight for Land and Liberty": Elvia Alvarado, author, activist, Honduras; Latin American Support Committee, Peace Studies Program, University of El Salvador Sister University Project, Survival Center, ASUO Women's Center
  • "Orchestrating Events: Participation and Storytelling Among African American Girls": Marjorie Harness Goodwin, University of South Carolina, Office of tire Provost Speaker's Fund, Social Science Speaker's Fund, Departments of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Sociology
  • "Nicaragua Today: Women's Struggle for Bread, Health, and Dignity": Charles Gray 1111d Dorothy Granada, Maria Luz Ortiz Women's Cooperative, Mulukuku, Nicaragua; Clergy and Lairy Concerned, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Friends Meeting
  • "Women in the New El Salvador": Carmen Morales, Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front El Salvador, University of El Salvador Sisler University Project, ASUO Women's Center, Cultural Forum, UO Women for Peace
  • "Politics, Women and the Creative Writer in Russia": Ruth Zernova, Russian fiction writer, Russian and East European Studies Center, Office of International Affairs, Oregon Humanities Center, Creative Writing Program

Major Events Cosponsored by CSWS

  • Australian Literature Conference
  • Women in Design Film Series "Fascism(s): roots/extensions/ replays"
  • "Inclusions, Exclusions, Collusions"
  • "May Day Colloquium: Labor, Education, and Intellectual Life"