\u201cHalf the Sky: The Greatest Unexploited Resource in the World Today Isn\u2019t Oil or Gold or Wind. It\u2019s Women.\u201d \u2014Sheryl WuDunn<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Wednesday, May 11, 2011<\/p>\n Erb Memorial Union Ballroom<\/p>\n University of Oregon<\/p>\n Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning journalist Sheryl WuDunn coauthored the influential book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.<\/em><\/p>\n The Center for the Study of Women in Society presented \u201cWomen\u2019s Rights in a Global World,\u201d the 2010-11 inaugural series of the Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This yearlong series of lectures, symposia, workshops, and other events focused on the continuing struggles for women\u2019s rights and was intended to inspire new scholarship and activism on women\u2019s rights. It grew out of CSWS\u2019s historical mission: to generate research on women and gender and to disseminate that research to a broader feminist community. The Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is funded by a gift from Val and Madge Lorwin to the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences and School of Law.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n Slideshow photographs by Jack Liu.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lorwin Lecture \u201cHalf the Sky: The Greatest Unexploited Resource in the World Today Isn\u2019t Oil or Gold or Wind. It\u2019s Women.\u201d \u2014Sheryl WuDunn 2011 Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Erb Memorial Union Ballroom University…<\/p>\n2011 Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties<\/h5>\n
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