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…
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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…
Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering—a new book edited by Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline Lundquist
Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering edited by Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline Lundquist Fordham University Press November 2012 424 pages A book that grew out of a 2009 conference that received substantial support from CSWS has…
Stephanie Jed: ‘Firmar la Mano’: Embodiment and Movement in the Work of Humanist Scholarship
Paulson Reading Room Knight Library, 2nd Floor North 15th & Kincaid Street University of Oregon ‘Firmar la Mano’: Embodiment and Movement in the Work of Humanist Scholarship Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi (1475–1527) is an important figure in the history of…
“Women in War: The Case of El Salvador,” with Jocelyn Viterna
Lawrence 166 1190 Franklin Blvd UO campus Flyer PDF Waging war has historically been an almost exclusively male endeavor. Yet over the past several decades, women have joined insurgent armies in significant and surprising numbers. Why do women become guerrilla…
