Category: Latino/a and Latin American Studies

Sally Miller Gearhart “Worlds Beyond World” Symposium: Feminist Utopian Thought

[ November 9, 2013; ] EMU Ballroom
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Full schedule PDF. For more information about 40th anniversary events, go to: http://csws.uoregon.edu/?page_id=8612 
Sally Miller Gearhart “Worlds Beyond World” Symposium: Feminist Utopian Thought
In this symposium, authors and cultural critics explore feminist creative production and the roles of speculative fiction and utopian ideas in imagining feminist futures.

Friday, Nov. 8

6:30-8:30 p.m. – “A Conversation with […]

Lynn Stephen to Launch New Book: “We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements”

[ November 12, 2013; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Knight Library
Browsing Rm
1501 Kincaid St.

We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements
by Lynn Stephen, Director, CLLAS, Distinguished Professor, UO Department of Anthropology

The launch of UO anthropology professor Lynn Stephen’s book We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements, published by Duke University Press, is free and open to the public.  The […]

Kimberly Theidon — “Speaking of Silences: Gender, Violence and Reparations in Peru”

[ May 9, 2014; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] 204 Condon Hall
1321 Kincaid
University of Oregon
A talk by Dr. Kimberly Theidon (Harvard University)
Kimberly Theidon is a medical anthropologist focusing on Latin America. Her research interests include domestic, structural and political violence; gender studies; human rights and international humanitarian law; the politics of post-war reparations; disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programs for ex-combatants; and US counter-narcotics policy.

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“Botanical Interventions: Rebuilding Landscapes, Reshaping Communities” — Oliver Kellhammer & Jennifer Burns Levin

[ May 9, 2013; 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm. ] Hendricks Hall
Hearth Rm (1st floor)
1408 University St., UO campus

A Fireside Conversation with Oliver Kellhammer, a permaculture artist, writer, and teacher specializing in ecological restoration and land art, and Jennifer Burns Levin, who teaches literature in the UO Clark Honors College. The two  will talk about Kellhammer’s interest in the shifting power relationships within public urban […]

Ricardo Bracho: “The Racial Sexual View from Here”

Browsing Room
Knight Library,
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus
“The Racial Sexual View from Here,” a lecture by queer Chicano writer and educator Ricardo Bracho
Ricardo A. Bracho is a writer and educator who has worked in theater, independent film and video, the academy, and community organizing for over 20 years. His lecture will focus on theater as a form […]

Love Magic in the Kitchen—Scholars Share Research on Dangerous Dependencies, Domestic Slavery and Servitude

(l to r): Nara Milanich; Nicole von Germeten; Russ Tomlin; Kris Lane; Michelle McKinley; Law School dean Michael Moffitt; Rachel O'Toole; and Elizabeth Kuznesof (photo by E. Hoffman).
May 4, 2012—Dozens of faculty members, administrators, visiting scholars, and students participated in a roundtable organized by law professor Michelle McKinley and held at the UO Knight Library […]