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…
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Jessaca Leinaweaver: “Collaborative Research on Children, Caregiving, and Migration in Peru”
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…
Sacrificing Families: U.S. Policies and the Displacement of Central Americans
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…
Ileana Rodríguez-Silva: “Gender and Class in the Silencing of Race in Puerto Rico”
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…
Cuban Filmmaker Marilyn Solaya to Screen “In the Wrong Body”
“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.…
CLLAS Guatemala Collaborative Team Receives Grant from UO Genocide Prevention Initiative
CLLAS Guatemala Collaborative Team Receives Grant from UO Genocide Prevention Initiative | CLLAS. 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…
