Fall 2003

Noon Talks

• October 8^th – “Zapotec Women in the Global Economy: Work, Identity, and Politics,” Lynn Stephen, professor, anthropology
• October 22^nd – “CSWS Grant Question-Answer Seminar,” Judith Musick, associate director, CSWS
• November 5^th – “Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire,” P. Lowell Bowditch, associate professor, Classics
• November 19^th – “The Gendering of the Informal Opportunities: A Look at Women’s and Men’s Labor in Post-Soviet Komsomolsk, Ukraine,” Leontina Hormel, graduate student, sociology
• December 3^rd – “Reading Gender in Central African Literature of War,” Christina Vandervorst, graduate student, Romance languages
• January 14^th – “Disease and the Dilemmas of Identity: Representation of Women in Modern Chinese Literature,” Eileen Frances Vickery, graduate student, East Asian languages and literatures
• February 11^th – “Nepal’s Everyday Ecologists: Women Stewards of the Himalayas,” Elizabeth Larson, graduate student, international studies
• March 3^rd – “Subject to the Laws of Nature: Ecofeminism, Subjectivity, and Political Representation,” Chaone Mallory, graduate student, environmental studies and women’s and gender studies

Road Scholars

• September 27^th, 2-3:30pm, Deschutes Library-Bend: “Frida Kahlo: Mexican Artist – World Icon”, Stephanie Wood, senior research associate, CSWS
• October 9^th, 12-1pm, Linn-Benton Community College: “Mothers of the Disappeared and Indigenous Rebels: Women and Social Movements in Latin America”, Lynn Stephen, professor, anthropology
• October 14^th, 1:15-2:45pm, OASIS at Meier and Frank, Valley River Center: “Poster Girls of the Middle Ages”, Barbara Altmann, associate professor, romance languages
• October 21^st, 1:15-2:45pm, OASIS at Meier and Frank, Valley River Center: “Into Our Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the United States”, Sandra Morgen, director, CSWS, and professor, anthropology
• October 29^th, 1-2:30pm, OASIS at Meier and Frank, Valley River Center: “Bear Lizzie: Memoir of a Jewish Immigrant Woman”, Elizabeth Reis, assistant professor, women’s and gender studies
• November 14^th, 12-1pm, Linn-Benton Community College: “Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption and Why It Matters”, Ellen Herman, associate professor, history
• November 19^th, 1:30-3pm, OASIS at Meirer and Frank, Valey River Center: “Renewing Welfare Reform: Will Getting Tougher Reduce Poverty?”, Joan Acker, CSWS, and professor emerita, sociology
• January 22^nd, 2004, 12-1pm, Linn-Benton Community College: “Into Our Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the United States”, Sandra Morgen, director, CSWS, and professor, anthropology
• February 12^th, 2004, 12-1pm, Linn-Benton Community College: “Renewing Welfare Reform: Will Getting Tougher Reduce Poverty?”, Joan Acker, CSWS, and professor emerita, sociology

Teaching and Tea

• October 21^st – “The Adoption History Project,” Ellen Herman, associate professor, history
• November 11^th – “The Gendered Garden: Images and Meaning,” Judith Musick, associate director, CSWS
• December 4^th – “An American Amazon in Paris: Natalie Clifford Barney’s Literary Saons in the 1920s,” Teri Ciacci, manager, Mother Kali’s Bookstore, and independent writer
• January 27^th, 2004 – “Word and Tone: Hender in 19^th Century German Poetry and Music,” Marylin Linton, associate professor, Germanic languages and literature, and Ann Tedards, associate professor, music
• February 12^th, 2004 – “Tea and Zen One Taste,” Miya Shimada, program developer and manager, the Urasenke Foundation, Seattle Branch

Spring 2004

Noon Talks 12-1 Hendricks 330 Wednesdays

• April 21^st – “Nepal’s Everyday Ecologists: Women Stewards of the Himalayas,” Elizabeth Larson, graduate student, international studies
• May 5^th – “Conavigua: Women Organizing Against Political Violence in Guatemala,” Sandra Ezqeurra, graduate student, sociology

Road Scholars

• May 3^rd, 2:30PM: Into Out Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the United States, Willamette Oaks Retirement Living, Sandra Morgen, director, CSWS, and professor, anthropology
• May 7^th, 7:30PM: Frida Kahlo: Mexican Painter – World Icon, Eugene Public Library, Stephanie Wood, senior research associate, CSWS

Borders of Human Security Conference – May 20-21, 2004, Knight Law Center

Thursday, May 20^th

7:30pm Opening Address, Noleen Heyzer, executive director, UNIFEM

Friday May 21^st

8:30am – Welcome

9-10:45am – Terror at Home: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Violence

                             Chair: Keith Aoki, School of Law, University of Oregon; Dahlia Hashad, ACLU Project on Racial Profiling; Patricia Cortez, Amigo de los Sobrevivientes; Cynthia Cockburn, City University London; Margaret Knox, Department of Geography, University of Oregon

11am-12:45pm – Globalization, Immigration, and Work

                             Chair: Susan Gardwick, Department of Geography, University of Oregon; Rhonda Ramiro, Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines in the Bay Area; Ramon Ramirez, PCUN; Lise Nelson, Department of Geography, UO; Lynn Stephen, Department of Anthropology, UO

2-4pm – Economic Security and Insecurities

                             Chair: Ellen Scott, Department of Sociology, UO; Dorthy Roberts, Northwestern School of Law; Cindi Katz, City University of New York, Graduate Center; Joan Acker, Department of Sociology, UO; Sandra Morgen, Department of Anthropology, UO

4:15-6pm – Promoting Human Security at Home

                             Chair: Sandra Morgen, Department of Anthropology, UO; Guadalupe Quinn, CAUSA; Carol Van Houten, Community Alliance of Lane County; Hope Marston, Euguene-Springfield Solidarity Network; Deana Dartt, Department of Anthropology, UO; Harriet Merrick, Basic Rights Oregon

6-7pm – Reception

• April 22^nd, 4-6pm - Perfect Unions: The Politics and Law of Same-Sex Marriage, Scott Barclay, political science, SUNY, Albany; Pricilla Uamin, political science, New School for Social Research; Dom Vetri, law, UO; Julie Novkov, political science, UO

Teaching and Tea, Hendricks 330 4-5:30pm

• April 15^th – “Striking Against the Empire: An Analysis of the “True” Indigenous Routs of Chicana and Chicanos”, Zelda Haro, graduate student, International Studies Program
• May 13^th – “The Death of a Female Moneylender: A Medieval Murder Mystery”, Judith Baskin, professor, Judaic studies