CLLAS Advisory Board Member Amalia Gladhart Publishes Translation of Stories by Argentine Writer

Trafalgar, by Argentine writer Angélica Gorodischer
Translated by Amalia Gladhart
(February 2013)

Publisher’s synopsis

CLLAS Advisory Board member Amalia Gladhart recently published a translation of Trafalgar, by Argentine writer Angélica Gorodischer, with Small Beer Press. Trafalgar is a series of linked stories related by Trafalgar Medrano, inter-galactic merchant (everything but arms) and pillar of the business community in his native Rosario, Argentina.  Amalia Gladhart is head, UO Department of Romance Languages, and professor of Spanish.

Story of a Critical Movement Sheds Light on Oregon’s Latino Population | Oregon Research

Story of a Critical Movement Sheds Light on Oregon’s Latino Population | Oregon Research.

from the Oregon Research Annual Report 2012, Office of Research, Innovation and Graduate Education

“In August 2012—just as incoming University of Oregon President Michael Gottfredson was headed to Woodburn, Oregon, for one of his first public appearances at the Fiesta Mexicana—the UO’s Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) was also focused on Woodburn with the release of the book The Story of PCUN and the Farmworker Movement in Oregon (CLLAS, 2012).” Read more…

Carnival of Nations Celebration

Global Scholars Hall
1710 E. 15th Ave.
UO campus

Friday, February 22, we’ll celebrate a Carnival of Nations in Global Scholars Hall. Events start in the afternoon with cooking demonstrations (and samples!), mini-language lessons, and guest lectures; and culminate with a feast of Italian and Brazilian specialities and a Carnival costume dance.

A more detailed schedule is coming soon, but here are a few highlights:

•  2:00 Pão de queijo (Brazilian cooking demo)
• 3:00 Guest lecture: Indigenous peoples of Brazil
• 4:00 Guest lecture: Venetian carnival masks
• 6:00-7:30 Drum and dance class
• 7:30-8:30 dinner
• 8:30-11:30 Dance

Plan to be there, and invite your friends!

Amalia Gladhart, Head, Department of Romance Languages | Professor of Spanish

Application Deadline CLLAS Summer Research Grants

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Application deadline is Friday, February 8, 2013 at noon for Graduate Student Summer Research Grants. For more information, email cllas@uoregon.edu or go to: http://cllas.uoregon.edu/cllas-announces-graduate-student-summer-2013-research-grants/

CLLAS Grad Grantee Presentation—Carolina Caballero (Dance)

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“Dancing Identities: Disrupting the Latina Myth”

Carolina Caballero (Dance)
February 28, 4-5:30 p.m.
Jane Grant Conference Rm
330 Hendricks Hall

Carolina Caballero Segura’s works seek to debunk stereotypical images of Latina women as represented in American popular culture. The critical thinking behind her creative projects stems from a desire to disrupt and subvert existing regimes of representation.  In the United States, it is undeniable that the mass media and Hollywood dominates the popular perception of what Latinas are.  By evoking the kinesthetic and symbolic power of dance in the media, these means have evoked images of an ethnic “other.” Caballero Segura’s work critically explores such dominant, hegemonic assumptions about dance and Latina identity.

Performance:  “Not about me.”

Carolina Caballero (Dance)
March 1, 8 p.m.
Dougherty Dance Theater
3rd Floor, Gerlinger Annex

CLLAS Announces Graduate Student Summer 2013 Research Grants

Graduate student Lindsay Naylor was assisted in her research by a CLLAS grant.

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In order to encourage and support interdisciplinary graduate student research in the areas of Latino/a and Latin American Studies, the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies announces its ongoing program for summer research support. CLLAS expects to award up to three summer grants for $1,000 each to advance research for either master’s or doctoral candidates. The awards will support research-related activities carried out from July 1, 2013 through September 30, 2013. We are especially interested in projects that have the potential to put Latino/a and Latin American Studies in conversation with each other and other fields.

For more details, go to:

2013 Call for Graduate Student Summer Research Grants

For examples of student projects, go to:

2011 Grant Recipient Projects