Mimi Thi Nguyen – “Of Gifts and Debt”

Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

May 22, 2019

12 – 1:20 PM

Co-Sponsored by UO Common Reading Program and UO Department of Sociology

We have an exciting series of speakers lined up for the Winter Quarter Colloquium Series. Please join us for the following talks Fridays at 12pm in  PLC 714.

• 1/18/19: Dimitra Cupo, “Doing Self-Defense: Women, Habitus and Privilege”
• 1/25/19: Victoria Reyes (UC Riverside), “Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines”
• 2/8/19: Ana Paricio (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), “Cities and Gender: Mapping Everyday Life Activities in Barcelona’s Public Spaces”
• 2/15/19: Anthony Ocampo (Cal Poly Pomona), “Lessons in Manhood and Morality: The Immigrant Family as Moral Context of Reception”
• 2/22/19: Ryan Light, TBA
• 3/1/19: Dawn Harfmann, “How Corporate Power, Environmental Labor, and Political Polarization Shape Environmental Concern in Rural Wyoming, and Why it Matters for Our Environmental Future”

Barbara Sutton, Associate Professor
Department of Women’s,
Gender, and Sexuality Studies
University at Albany, State
University of New York

Thursday, October 25, 2018
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Gerlinger Alumni Lounge
1468 University Street
University of Oregon campus
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
csws.uoregon.edu/sutton

This presentation is based on Sutton’s recently published book, Surviving State Terror.
Based on oral testimonies of women who survived clandestine detention centers during a period of state terrorism in Argentina (1976–83), this book illuminates the gendered and embodied forms of trauma that women endured while also highlighting their historical and political agency. Through the lens of the body as a cross-cutting theme, the book examines gendered dimensions of experience during captivity and beyond. Sexual violence as a weapon of state terror is addressed, yet the book also shows more subtle dynamics of gender inscription through torture. Similarly, though the study attends to motherhood ideologies and the egregious treatment of pregnant women in captivity, it also explores women’s experiences beyond maternity.
Public and scholarly discourse has tended to pay attention to the relatives of the people disappeared, particularly mothers; this book makes a needed contribution by bringing to the fore the stories of women who themselves were forcibly disappeared, but ultimately survived.
Surviving State Terror incorporates women survivors’ narratives of solidarity, resistance, and political organizing as well as their perspectives on social change, human rights, and democracy. The book draws on the urgent lessons that women survivors offer to a world that continues to grapple with atrocities.

Barbara Sutton earned her PhD in sociology at the University of Oregon in 2004 and is a former CSWS Jane Grant Fellow.

A Celebration of Life/memorial service for Dr. Kavous Seyed-Emami will be held Saturday February 24, 2-4 PM in Gerlinger Lounge. Please RSVP before Monday, February 21 at noon to both Nahla Bassil and Mohammad Maleki.

SOJC Research Seminar (SRS) Series

Winter 2018

Allen 307, Noon-1pm

02/14 (WED) Michael Dreiling (Professor, Department of Sociology at UO): “Networks of Power, Networks of Resistance”

Professor Dreiling introduces some sociological principles of social network analysis (SNA) and then recaps several network analyses and visualizations based on his empirical research. This work elucidates network concepts of power, influence and subgroup cohesion. Employing SNA tools alongside a power structure approach to socio-political dynamics – as inspired by Mills and Domhoff – we can generate insights and test theories. SNA can be a powerful complement to a multi-method research program. Professor Dreiling’s research applies these tools to study wide-ranging forms of collective action, from social movements rooted in civil society to elite institutions and corporate dominance of policy making in the US and Japan.

Professor Eileen Otis will be giving a talk on February 28th, 2018 at 4-5PM in EMU’s Miller Room as part of the Winter 2018 UO Labor Research Colloquium speaker series, sponsored by the Labor Education & Research Center (LERC).The talk titled “Walmart in China: How are Chinese workers Confronting the World’s Largest Company?”  explores how workers in China have confronted the world’s biggest employer, and how they have challenged, accommodated or reshaped Wal-Mart’s labor practices.

Graduate student Lola Loustaunau will present her work on April 18th, 2018 at 4 – 5pm at EMU’s Miller Room as part of the Winter 2018 UO Labor Research Colloquium speaker series, sponsored by the Labor Education & Research Center (LERC). The talk is titled, “Organizing multiethnic, multilingual workers with insecure legal status: challenges and lessons from an intensive campaign in the Portland food industry.”

We are excited to announce next week’s colloquium featuring a team of our departments fantastic researchers, Camila Alvarez, Lola Loustaunau, Larissa Petrucci and Ellen Scott. Their presentation is titled “Impossible Choices: How Workers Manage Unpredictable Scheduling Practices.” We hope to see you there on November 13^th, 2017 in PLC 714 at 12pm.

Professor Kemi Balogun is one of the many featured speakers at the Islamic Feminism Symposium sponsored by the Middle East and North Africa Studies program happening Friday, October 27th 2017. This all-day event takes place in Gerlinger 302 on the University of Oregon campus.

This symposium brings together scholars from multidisciplinary perspectives to explore the histories and contemporary debates on the themes of Islamic feminism and their application in the areas of law, democracy, globalization, and writing. Case studies of the women’s mosque movement explores women’s spiritual leadership and its role in the production and transmission of knowledge. The symposium highlights the contributions of Muslim women’s activism and examines and challenges popular representations of women and Islam.

Islamic Feminism Symposium Poster

Motivational Frame Disputes and Discursive Narratives Surrounding Hydraulic Fracking in the Haynesville Shale

Anthony E. Ladd
Professor of Sociology/The Environment Program
Loyola University New Orleans

June 5, 2015
12-1 PM
714 PLC

Abstract:
Environmental sociologists and social movement scholars have long utilized frame analysis concepts and similar analytic tools to examine how competing groups socially construct discursive interpretations of the environmental hazards, issues, and conflicts in their community (e.g. Brulle and Benford 2012; Capek 1993; Grey 2003, Krogman 1996; Ladd 2011; Shriver and Peaden 2009; Vincent and Shriver 2009). Typically, environmental frame disputes entail contrasting diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational narratives regarding what citizens view as the problems at hand, what solutions they propose to address such problems, and how these beliefs provide a motivation or rationale for adherents to take action on the issues driving the controversy (Benford 1993; Benford and Snow 2000). While the diagnostic and prognostic components of the larger frame dispute over natural gas fracking have been recently analyzed (see Ladd 2014), the motivational frames and discursive narratives that provide opposing rationales for the conflict have not received similar attention. In this presentation, based on a chapter from my forthcoming edited book (Fractured Communities: Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions), I draw on sociological literature, archival sources, discursive documents, participant observation, and in-depth interview data from stakeholder groups in the region to provide a qualitative analysis of the motivational frame disputes surrounding natural gas development and hydraulic fracturing in the Haynesville Shale region of Louisiana. I conclude with some observations about their implications for future mobilization efforts surrounding oil and gas fracking.

Bio:
Anthony E. Ladd is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and The Environment Program and a former chair of the Department of Sociology and the Environmental Studies Program at Loyola University New Orleans. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in sociology from the University of Tennessee and his B.S. in sociology from Ball State University. He has taught at the University of North Georgia, the University of Tennessee, and Carson-Newman College, and has served as a Visiting Professor at Duke University, Oregon State University, and Mississippi State University. He has also given invited research lectures on such campuses as the University of Oregon, Oklahoma State University, Villanova University, the University of South Florida, the University of Indianapolis, West Virginia Tech, and is a former president of the Association for Humanist Sociology (AHS). Dr. Ladd’s major area of research centers on the impacts of energy-driven environmental controversies and technological disasters on communities. He is the author of the forthcoming edited volume, Fractured Communities: Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions (2017, Rutgers University Press) and has published over 50 articles, chapters, and reviews in such venues as Sociological Inquiry, Social Currents, Sociological Spectrum, American Behavioral Scientist, Journal of Rural Social Sciences, Humanity and Society, Journal of Public Management and Social Policy, and Social Justice. His most recent published research analyzes the environmental frame disputes and differential impacts of natural gas fracking in the Haynesville and Tuscaloosa Shale regions of Louisiana, as well as the growing socio-environmental threats posed by our continued reliance on fossil fuels and unconventional energy development. He is currently serving on the advisory board for an NSF grant on wastewater induced seismicity in Colorado and Oklahoma, is a Co-PI on a study examining the social impacts of extreme energy production in the United Kingdom (UK), and is researching the growth of “Frackademia” and the influx of corporate oil and gas funding into higher education.