Winter 2012 CLLAS Newsletter Now Available

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This edition of  CLLAS Notes includes:

• “From the Director”—a letter from interim director David Vázquez
• The Oregon Latino Heritage Collaborative
• Reporting on CLLAS Graduate Student Research Grants
• Spain and Latin America through Contemporary Poetry
• Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change Initiatives

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Glenn Anthony May a Finalist for the 2012 Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction

Congratulations to UO history professor Glenn Anthony May, selected as a finalist for the 2012 Oregon Book Award for general nonfiction for his book Sonny Montes and Mexican American Activism in Oregon (Oregon State University Press)

Now in their 25th year, the Oregon Book Awards are conferred by Literary Arts in Portland. Winners will be announced at a ceremony on April 23 at the Gerding Theater at the Armory in Portland (128 NW 11th Ave). The ceremony honors the state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction and young readers literature.

CLLAS Advisory Board Member Michelle McKinley Awarded Surrency Prize

2011 Surrency Prize to Michelle McKinley for “Fractional Freedoms”

November 15, 2011—University of Oregon law professor and CLLAS advisory board member Michelle McKinley was named this year’s winner of the Surrency prize, awarded by the American Society for Legal History (ASLH) for the best article published in the Society’s journal, the Law and History Review. McKinley’s winning article is titled “Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism, and Ecclesiastical Courts in Colonial Lima, 1593-1689.” The article appeared in Volume 28, no. 3.

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CLLAS Grantee Presentation: Ivan Sandoval- Cervantes

Chapman Hall Room 204
990 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus

Organizing Agriculture: Milpa Production and the Reasons behind a Non-Profitable Activity

CLLAS Grantee Presentation: Ivan Sandoval- Cervantes (Anthropology)

“Terrorizing Women: Feminicide and Gender Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands”—Cynthia Bejarano

UO Knight Library Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.

This lecture is cosponsored by Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.

Dr. Cynthia Bejarano is the Stan Fulton Endowed Chair in Arts and Sciences and an associate professor of Criminal Justice at New Mexico State University. In 2010, she was named Outstanding New Mexico Woman of the Year by the New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women for her activism in bringing attention to feminicide in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and for her advocacy for farmworkers and their families. › Continue reading

CLLAS Advisory Board Member Mark Carey Honored for His Recent Book

Mark Carey, assistant professor of history in the UO Robert D. Clark Honors College and a member of the CLLAS advisory board, is the recipient of the 2011 Elinor Melville Prize for Latin American Environmental History, awarded by the Conference on Latin American History, for his book In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Carey’s research shows that severe environmental, economic, and social impacts have come from climate change in  Peru’s Cordillera Blanca mountain range. He writes of the tragic history of these impacts for the people of this region and shows how different groups have responded to impending changes.