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campus location: Knight Library, Browsing Rm
\ncommunity location: downtown Eugene Public Library
\nBrochure PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

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5th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium<\/em><\/h5>\n

\u201cCrossing Borders: Women\u2019s Stories of Immigration, Migration, and Transition,\u201d May 6 \u2013 8, 2016<\/h3>\n

The fifth annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium will be held Friday, May 6, 2016, through Sunday, May 8, 2016. American Book Award winner Reyna Grande<\/a> is the keynote author. She will be joined by the inimitable Ariel Gore, founding\u00a0editor\/publisher of Hip Mama<\/a><\/em>; Dominican-American poet and novelist Ana-Maurine Lara<\/a>; novelist Miriam Gershow; novelist Chris Scofield<\/a>; travel and food magazine writer Jennifer Burns Bright; documentary filmmaker and anthropology professor Lynn Stephen; Zapotec hip-hop artist Mare Advertencia Lirika<\/a>; and others to be named later. The symposium includes panel discussions, writing workshops, a keynote talk, author conversations & readings, book signings, and discussion. Our theme is \u201cCrossing Borders: Women\u2019s Stories of Immigration, Migration, and Transition.\u201d How have our migrations and moves contributed to or instigated our writings? What do we move away from, and what do we go toward? What are the historical, political, and personal currents that influence our transitions\u2014from one country to another, from one state to another, from city to country, from mountains to sea, from one marriage or partnership to another, from one career to another, from one self-view to another? \u201cCrossing Borders\u201d is a multi-layered theme that will open the door to fruitful discussions of craft, creativity, challenges of survival, making room for others, and community. This theme promises to open conversations about border politics; poverty; racism and xenophobia; climate change; ongoing effects of colonialism and genocide; family dynamics; agricultural patterns and enslavement; overpopulation; human migratory patterns; fleeing war and abuse; moving on; and traveling for discovery, growth, and as part of our archetypal human journey.<\/p>\n

Starting in March at downtown Eugene Public Library, watch for Reader\u2019s Group book kits for The Distance Between Us<\/em> by Reyna Grande, and The End of Eve<\/em>, by Ariel Gore.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hosted by the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon in cooperation with Eugene Pubic Library, this symposium is generously cosponsored by\u00a0Oregon Humanities Center\u2019s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities; UO Libraries; Center for Latino\/a and Latin American Studies; Department of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies; Department of English; School of Journalism and Communication; School of Music and Dance; and the University Health Center.<\/p>\n

Friday Events<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Documentary Film Premiere: 12-1 p.m. May 6<\/span><\/h4>\n

\u201cSad Happiness: Cinthya\u2019s Transborder Journey,\u201d followed by Q&A with the director. Browsing Room, Knight Library.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Sad-Happiness-DVD-front-cover\"<\/a>Directed by Lynn Stephen<\/a>, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon and co-director of the Center for Latino\/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS). Produced by Sonia De La Cruz and Lynn Stephen.<\/p>\n

Sad Happiness: Cinthya\u2019s Transborder Journey<\/em> explores the differential rights that U.S. citizen children and their undocumented parents have through the story of one extended Zapotec family. Shot in Oregon and Oaxaca, Mexico, and narrated by 11-year old Cinthya, the film follows Cinthya\u2019s trip to her parent\u2019s home community of Teotitl\u00e1n del Valle with her godmother, anthropologist Lynn Stephen. There she meets her extended family and discovers her indigenous Zapotec and Mexican roots. While in Oaxaca, she participates in her community\u2019s annual celebration of their patron saint, learns how to make chocolate and spin wool, explores a Zapotec archaeological site, and shares in a family party where she dances with her great-grandmother. Her absent parents are omnipresent on the trip as Cinthya\u2019s cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents and great-grandparents all talk to her about them and how they wish for their return. Cinthya\u2019s happiness is modified by the sadness of her parents being unable to accompany her. At a larger level, Cinthya\u2019s story illuminates the desires and struggles of the millions of families divided between the U.S. and other countries where children are mobile citizens and parents cannot leave. In English, Spanish, and Zapotec with English subtitles. TRT: 39 minutes. The development of this documentary was supported in part by a Faculty Research Grant from the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society.<\/em><\/p>\n

Friday Panel, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.<\/h4>\n

\u201cCrossing Borders: What It Means in the Life of a Child,\u201d with keynote author Reyna Grande, Browsing Room, Knight Library.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"the-distance-between-us\"<\/a>This panel will focus on the memoir The Distance Between Us<\/em>, featuring Reyna Grande reading sections from her work, with comments by community educators and University of Oregon faculty.<\/p>\n

Reyna Grande\u2019s novels, Across a Hundred Mountains<\/em> and Dancing with Butterflies<\/em>, were published to critical acclaim and have been read widely in schools across the country. In her memoir The Distance Between Us <\/em>(Atria Books, 2012), Grande writes about her life before and after her undocumented border crossing as a young child from Mexico to the United States. A National Book Circle Critics Award finalist, this book was hailed by Los Angeles Times<\/em> reviewer Hector Tobar<\/a> as \u201cthe Angela\u2019s Ashes<\/em> of the modern Mexican immigrant experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Panelists include:<\/p>\n