Fall 2007-08
Immigration Project Speakers, Presented by the Women in the Northwest Initiative’s Project on Gender, Families, and Immigration
Browsing Room, Knight Library, Receptions 3:30pm, Lectures 4:00pm
- October 15th – “Transnational Remittances of Caribbean Immigrant Families in Canada,” Dwaine Plaza, associate professor of sociology, OSU
- November 7th – “Cesar Chavez and the Politics and Promise of Mexican Immigration,” Joseph Orosco, assistant professor of philosophy, OSU
Wednesdays at Noon – 330 Hendricks Hall, 12pm-1pm
- October 24th – “Feminist Perspectives on Gender Differences in Traumatic Stress,” S. Shin-Shin Tang, graduate student, psychology
- November 14th – “CSWS Research Grants Question and Answer Seminar,” Judith Musick, associate director, Center for the Study of Women in Society.
- November 28th – “Employing Technology to Analyze Gender Roles in Mesoamerican Manuscripts: Recent Advances in the Mapas Project,” Judith Musick and Stephanie Wood, both associate directors at CSWS
Winter 2007-08
Noon Talks – 330 Hendricks Hall, 12pm-1pm
- January 16th – “Confessions of a Queer-spawn-Writing Humorous Memoir on Serious Social Issues,” Mellisa Hart, adjunct professor, School of Journalism and Communication
- February 6th – “Squaw: Discourse, Stereotypes, and Indigenous Women,” Debra Merskin, associate professor, School of Journalism and Communication
- February 20th -n “When Flags Flew High: Propaganda, Memory and Oral History for World War II Female Veterans,” Kathleen Ryan, graduate teaching fellow, School of Journalism and Communication
- March 5th – “The Reproduction of Inequality: The Social Organization of Work at Large Scale Development Projects,” Yvonne Braun, assistant professor, Department of Sociology
- March 12th – “Sex, Style and War: Aesthetics and Politics in Post 9/11 America,” Bonnie Mann, assistant professor, Department of Philosophy
March 10th, 3:30pm, Browsing Room, Knight Library, “Mexican Immigration in Oregon: Gender and Family Issues” Panel – Lynn Stephen, professor, Department of Anthropology, and Heather McClure, research associate, Oregon Social Learning Center. Reception to follow.
Spring 2007-08
Conference on Gender, Families, and Latino Immigration in Oregon – May 22-23, 175 Knight Law Center
Wednesdays at Noon – 330 Hendricks Hall, 12pm-1pm
- April 16th – “Family and the State in the New Generation of Chilean Women Writers” by Yossa Vidal-Collados, graduate student, Department of Romance Languages
- April 30th – “The Self between Languages and Places as Part of Diasporic Sephardic Identities: A Transnational Poetics of Jewish Languages” by Monique Balbuena, assistant professor, Clark Honors College
- May 7th – “Our Roots Run Deep as Iornweed: Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in the Appalachian Coalfields” by Shannon Bell, graduate teaching fellow, Department of Sociology
- May 14th – “Love and Blood: Petty Urbanities Write Emotion in 1920s Shanghai” by Bryna Goodman, professor, Department of History
- June 4th – “Gender Identification, Sex Roles, and Gender Role Conflict Measurement: Development and Refinement of the Gender Traits and Behaviors Scale and the Gender Role Conflict and Traditionalism Scale” by Sean M. Laurent, graduate student, Department of Psychology
“Letters form the Other Side” – April 25th, 6:30pm, Cesar Chavez Elementary School, 1410 W. 14th Ave, Eugene. Sponsored by the CSWS Project on Gender, Families, and Immigration.