March 11, 2015—A book authored by Professor Lynn Stephen, director, UO Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, has been named the recipient of the 2015 Delmos Jones and Jagna Scharff Memorial Book Award from the Society for the Anthropology of North America. We are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements (Duke University […]
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Jessaca Leinaweaver: “Collaborative Research on Children, Caregiving, and Migration in Peru”
[ May 14, 2015; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ] Graduate Student Lounge
Susan Campbell Hall
1431 Johnson Lane
A Public Talk
Jessaca Leinaweaver conducts research in cultural anthropology and anthropological demography within Peru and the Peruvian diaspora. She has published on informal child fostering in the urban Andes, aging in Andean Peru, and transnational adoption and migration from Peru to Spain. She is an associate professor of anthropology […]
Sacrificing Families: U.S. Policies and the Displacement of Central Americans
[ October 23, 2014; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ] Knight Library, Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
Free & open to public
See also Globalization, Gender and Development Conference
“Sacrificing Families: U.S. Policies and the Displacement of Central Americans,” with Leisy J. Abrego, Assistant Professor, UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies. Trained as a sociologist, Abrego studies families, Central American migration, and Latino immigrants’ lived experiences of […]
Ileana Rodríguez-Silva: “Gender and Class in the Silencing of Race in Puerto Rico”
[ February 6, 2015; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] Browsing Room, Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St. printable flyer
Public Talk
Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva is an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Washington, Department of History. She earned her B.A. at the Universidad de Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rodriguez-Silva is the […]
Cuban Filmmaker Marilyn Solaya to Screen “In the Wrong Body”
[ October 3, 2013; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. October 4, 2013; 9:00 am to 10:30 am. ] “In The Wrong Body” tells the story of Mavi Susel, who underwent Cuba’s first gender reassignment operation in 1988. In addition this documentary explores such timely issues as the meaning of femininity in the macho and patriarchal society of Cuba.
Thursday Oct. 3: 4-5:30 p.m.
Public screening of documentary “In The Wrong Body” (RT 52 minutes) followed […]
CLLAS Guatemala Collaborative Team Receives Grant from UO Genocide Prevention Initiative
CLLAS Guatemala Collaborative Team Receives Grant from UO Genocide Prevention Initiative | CLLAS.
Photo by Greg Krupa
Editor’s Note: CSWS associate director Gabriela Martinez and advisory board member Michelle McKinley are members of the Guatemala collaborative team awarded this grant. The Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) was incubated within CSWS before becoming an independent […]
