Category: Latino/a and Latin American Studies

Mam women flee rural violence, seek gendered justice

New journal article by Lynn Stephen

Fleeing rural violence: Mam women seeking gendered justice in Guatemala and the U.S.

by Lynn Stephen. Journal of Peasant Studies, 46(2): 229-257. January 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2018.1534836

Dr. Stephen’s uses the concept of gendered embodied structures of violence as the analytical framework for illustrating how in rural Huehuetenango, Guatemala, historical and contemporary structures and […]

Alberto Mira: “Inocencia y experiencia: infancias diferentes en Estiu 1993 (Clara Simó) y Pa negre (Agustí Villaronga)”

Pictured is Alberto Mira.

[ March 6, 2019; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Room 240C
McKenzie Hall
UO campus

A public lecture by Alberto Mira, Oxford Brookes University

“Inocencia y experiencia: infancias diferentes en Estiu 1993 (Clara Simó) y Pa negre (Agustí Villaronga)”

Public lecture and QA: Wednesday March 6, 2019 3:30-5pm at 240C McKenzie

Additionally, there will be a workshop with graduate students and faculty: Wednesday March 6, 2019 12pm-1pm at Friendly 109.

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Steven Marsh: “Cast Adrift: Zama as an Historical Film of Non-Arrival”

[ March 7, 2019; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Room 240C
McKenzie Hall

Public lecture with Q&A: Steven Marsh, University of Illinois at Chicago

“Cast Adrift: Zama as an Historical Film of Non-Arrival”

Public lecture and QA: Thursday March 7, 2019 3:30-5pm at 240C McKenzie

Workshop with graduate students and faculty: Thursday March 7, 2019 10am-11am
at Friendly 109

Sponsored by Department of Romance Languages; cosponsored by CSWS and other UO […]

Erin Beck: The Uneven Impacts of Violence against Women Reforms in Guatemala

[ May 10, 2019; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ]
PLC 348

Join the International Studies Community for a discussion at the INTL Lunch Talk Next Friday, May 10 @ 12 p.m. in PLC 348

The Uneven Impacts of Violence against Women Reforms in Guatemala: Intersecting Inequalities and the Patchwork StatePresented by Dr. Erin Beck

In 2008, Guatemala passed one of the most comprehensive pieces of violence against […]

“Counterplanning from the Kitchen Table: June Jordan and the Domestic Literary Enterprise, 1979-1985”

Pictured is Erica Edwards.

[ February 7, 2019; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ]
EMU 145: Crater Lake South. University of Oregon

New Directions in Black Feminist Studies Speaker SeriesEthnic Studies Speaker, Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture Speaker

Speaker: Dr. Erica Edwards (Rutgers) “Counterplanning from the Kitchen Table: June Jordan and the Domestic Literary Enterprise, 1979-1985”

Join us for the next talk in the New Directions in Black Feminist Studies Speaker Series, organized […]

Verónica Gago: Romance Languages Spring Speaker Series

[ May 17, 2019; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ]
CRATER LAKE ROOM SOUTH, EMU

Romance Languages: 2019 Spring Speaker Series “Misogyny”

Verónica Gago

Talk Title “El cuerpo del trabajo: una lectura desde la huelga feminista/The body of work: a reading from the feminist strike.”

Speaker: Verónica Gago, University of Buenos Aires/CONICET.