Events

Currents in Gender Studies

Women's & Gender Studies annually hosts Currents in Gender Studies, a half-day seminar on a new work by an internationally recognized scholar. Past speakers have included Thomas Laquer, Chandra Mohanty, Ricki Solinger, and Alice Dreger.

Fifth Annual Currents in Gender Studies Symposium

Date:	Friday - April 18, 2008
Time:	11:00am - 12:30pm ~ Lunch
	12:30pm - 1:30pm ~ Symposium
Location:	Ford Lecture Hall at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Guest Speaker:	Laura Elisa Pérez

A bit about our guest speaker: Laura Elisa Pérez is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and, Spanish and Portugese at UC Berkley. Her teaching and research are in contemporary US Latina and Latin American women's writing; Chicana/o literature and visual arts; and contemporary cultural theory. Some of her published or forthcoming publications include:

• "Reconfiguring Nation and Identity: US Latin and Latin American Women's Oppositional Writings"
• "Reflections and Confessions on the 'Minority' and Post-Colonial Immigrant ID Tour"
• "For Love and Theory: An Ofrenda"
• "El desorden, Nationalism, and Chicana/o Aesthetics"

Nadia Telsey Retirement Party

Date:	Friday - May 2, 2008
Time:	4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:	Knight Library Browsing Room / 1501 Kincaid

The University of Oregon's Women's & Gender Studies Program is pleased to honor Nadia Tesley who has taught women's self-defense for the past 17 years for the WGS Program. We look forward to celebrating her retirement with invited teaching associates and her former students.

In lieu of gifts, donations may be made to Breaking Free, a Eugene non-profit organization founded by Nadia and dedicated to ending sexual violence:

Breaking Free | PO Box 1023 | Eugene OR 97440

Visit it at www.breaking-free.net