{"id":24491,"date":"2017-01-01T12:18:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T20:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=24491"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:41:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:41:51","slug":"nwws2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/nwws2017\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium: featuring Ayana Mathis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>March 3 Light reception 2:30 &#8211; 3 p.m. JSMA Ford Lecture Hall<\/li>\n<li>March Panel with Ayana Mathis: 3:00 &#8211; 4:30 p.m. JSMA Ford Lecture Hall<\/li>\n<li>March 3 Keynote talk with Ayana Mathis: 6 &#8211; 8 p.m. Downtown Eugene Public Library<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Free &amp; open to the public<\/p>\n<h3>6th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium<\/h3>\n<h4>\u201cWomen and Work: Stories of the Great Migration\u201d<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/docs\/events\/2017_NWWS_Ayana_Mathis_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">printable flyer PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/oprahsbookclub\/Ayana-Mathis-Interview-with-Oprah-The-Twelve-Tribes-of-Hattie\/3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oprah\u2019s interview with Ayana Mathis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The acclaimed, bestselling author <a href=\"http:\/\/ayanamathis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ayana Mathis<\/a> will deliver a keynote lecture and participate in a panel discussion focused on her celebrated novel <em>The Twelve Tribes of Hattie<\/em>, at the 6th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium, \u201cWomen and Work: Women\u2019s Stories of Work and the Great Migration.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24920\" style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/6th-annual-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium\/mathis_\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24920\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24920\" class=\" wp-image-24920\" src=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mathis_-269x300.gif\" alt=\"Ayana Mathis\" height=\"185\" width=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mathis_-269x300.gif 269w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mathis_-134x150.gif 134w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mathis_-260x290.gif 260w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mathis_-160x178.gif 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ayana Mathis<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mathis\u2019s debut novel, <em>The Twelve Tribes of Hattie<\/em>, was a New York Times Bestseller, a 2013 New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year, and an NPR Best Books of 2013. This novel was long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award, nominated for a 2013 Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award, and was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as the second selection for Oprah\u2019s Book Club 2.0. Mathis teaches at the Iowa Writers&#8217; Workshop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>March 3 Keynote talk: \u201cThe Twelve Tribes of Hattie,\u201d with Ayana Mathis<br \/>\n6 &#8211; 8 p.m. Downtown Eugene Public Library, 100 W. 10th (10th &amp; Olive), Eugene, OR&nbsp; 97401<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ayana Mathis will deliver a keynote talk, offer a Q&amp;A session, and sign books.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/6th-annual-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium\/hattieuscover\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24921\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24921\" src=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hattieUScover-202x300.gif\" alt=\"hattieuscover\" height=\"181\" width=\"127\"><\/a>March 3 Panel with Ayana Mathis: 3:00 &#8211; 4:30 p.m.<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA), Ford Lecture Hall, 1430 Johnson Lane, UO campus<br \/>\n<\/strong> (Light reception: 2:30 &#8211; 3 p.m.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<em>The Twelve Tribes of Hattie<\/em>\u201d\u2014<\/strong>This panel will focus on the Great Migration and the work of women through the lens of&nbsp; Ayana Mathis\u2019s novel <em>The Twelve Tribes of Hattie<\/em>. The panel will feature Mathis reading portions of her novel, with comments by community educators and University of Oregon faculty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panelists include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_24924\" style=\"width: 127px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/6th-annual-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium\/celona-marjorie-234x300\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24924\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24924\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-24924\" src=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Celona-Marjorie-234x300-117x150.jpg\" alt=\"Marjorie Celona\" height=\"150\" width=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Celona-Marjorie-234x300-117x150.jpg 117w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Celona-Marjorie-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Celona-Marjorie-234x300-160x205.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 117px) 100vw, 117px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marjorie Celona<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marjoriecelona.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marjorie Celona<\/a>, UO Creative Writing Program, is a graduate of the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop and the author of <em>Y: A Novel <\/em>(winner of France\u2019s Grand Prix Litt\u00e9raire de l\u2019H\u00e9ro\u00efne for Best Foreign Novel).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_24925\" style=\"width: 113px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/6th-annual-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium\/sharon-luk\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24925\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24925\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-24925\" src=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sharon-Luk-103x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sharon Luk\" height=\"150\" width=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sharon-Luk-103x150.jpg 103w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sharon-Luk.jpg 206w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Sharon-Luk-160x233.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 103px) 100vw, 103px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Luk<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/english.uoregon.edu\/profile\/sluk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sharon Luk<\/a>, UO Department of English, teaches courses in African American Literature and Asian American Literature and studies in race and ethnicity.<\/li>\n<li>Mo Young, Equity and Access Coordinator, Lane County<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moderator:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/about\/people\/staff\/michelle-mckinley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michelle McKinley<\/a>, Director, CSWS; Bernard B. Kliks Associate Professor, School of Law<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">From the Lyceum Agency: \u201c<em>The Twelve Tribes of Hattie<\/em> is the multi-generational story of one family, part of the Great Migration of African-Americans who left the South to escape hatred and oppression and seek opportunity in the North. An intimate portrait captured in twelve luminous narrative threads, <em>The Twelve Tribes of Hattie<\/em> opens in 1923, when fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. That lack of love, as well as other travails, causes suffering to ripple through the generations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIsabel Wilkerson, writing in <em>The New York Times<\/em>, concludes that though the Great Migration forms the backdrop for the plot, <em>The Twelve Tribes of Hattie<\/em> is really the story of \u2018a mother\u2019s loss and the toll it takes on her and her children, their feeble attempts to escape their lives and the costs borne by every one of them.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>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 Oregon Humanities Center\u2019s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities; UO Libraries; Creative Writing Program; Departments of English and Ethnic Studies; the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; and the Comparative Literature journal.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 3 Light reception 2:30 &#8211; 3 p.m. JSMA Ford Lecture Hall March Panel with Ayana Mathis: 3:00 &#8211; 4:30 p.m. JSMA Ford Lecture Hall March 3 Keynote talk with Ayana Mathis: 6 &#8211; 8 p.m. Downtown Eugene Public Library&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/nwws2017\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":24920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,36,171,173,326,40,22,59],"tags":[559,56,454,561,273,450,158],"class_list":["post-24491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-events","category-literature","category-women-writers","category-race-issues","category-women-of-color-project","category-womens-history","category-womens-rights","tag-ayana-mathis","tag-csws","tag-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium","tag-marjorie-celona","tag-northwest-women-writers-symposium","tag-nwws","tag-uo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24491"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32959,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24491\/revisions\/32959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}