University of Oregon faculty member awarded $459,000 NSF CAREER Award

University of Oregon faculty member awarded $459,000 NSF CAREER Award | Oregon Research.

Mark Carey, Honors College, is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.

2013 Seed Grant Competition for Faculty and Collaborative Research Groups

2013 Call for Faculty Grants FINAL

In order to encourage existing projects and collaborations and to facilitate new ones, CLLAS announces its fourth round of small grant competitions for funds to be used during the 2013-2014 academic year (July 1, 2013 — through June 30, 2014). We expect to disburse two to three grants for $2,000 to $3,000 each. These grants are specifically intended to support research that fits within the CLLAS mission. Projects that include collaboration between UO units, involve the wider Eugene/Springfield or Oregon communities, or propose other forms of community engagement are particularly welcome. In recognition of the fact that not all disciplines include collaborative models of research, such as fields within the humanities, CLLAS will consider projects that involve nontraditional forms of collaboration and/or community engagement. We are especially interested in projects that have the potential to put Latino and Latin American Studies into conversation with one another. › Continue reading

The Politics of Emergency and Suspicion: The Post-9/11 Arab and Muslim American Experience

Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
Free and open to the public

Second event in “The Borders Within: Immigrants, Race, and the Politics of Surveillance and Enforcement in the United States” symposia series [3]

• 2-3:30 p.m.—Roundtable featuring LAURETTA FREDERKING [4], University of Portland; MARGARET HU [5], Duke University; and KAYSE JAMA [6], Center for Intercultural Organizing.
• 4-5:30 p.m.—Keynote address, “Fracturing Our ‘More Perfect Union’: Post-9/11 Discriminatory Profiling and Surveillance,” featuring HINA SHAMSI [7], director of the ACLU’s National Security Project. In this event, we explore how immigration politics and the lives of newcomers are transformed in perilous times of war and emergency, with a focus on how security priorities after 9/11 recast the national immigration debate and policy-making process. Equally important, we seek to understand how official programs of surveillance and profiling—funded and advanced by both the Bush and Obama administrations—shape the experiences of Muslim and Arab Americans.

The final symposium in the series, Place and Belonging: Policing Immigrant Lives at the State and Local Scales [8], takes place Friday, May 3, 2 p.m. in the Giustina Ballroom, Ford Alumni Center.

Sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center’s Migration Project, the Savage Endowment for International Relations and Peace, The Americas in a Globalized World Initiative, the Global Oregon Initiative, and Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.

Links: › Continue reading

Youth Conversations in Oaxaca, California, and Oregon — A CLLAS Grantee Presentation with Dr. Stephanie Wood

Jane Grant Room
330 Hendricks Hall
UO campus

Planting CEEDs: Culture, Exchange, Education, and Diversity (CEED)
/ Cultura, Intercambio, Educación, y Diversidad (CIED)

Youth Conversations in Oaxaca, California, and Oregon

A CLLAS Grantee Presentation with Dr. Stephanie Wood

This project has led to the establishment of an international collaborative that fosters multilingual conversations around the themes of migration, culture and language retention – conversations that are recorded, archived, and made accessible for promoting research and teaching within various disciplines, including anthropology, history, linguistics, planning and public policy, journalism, women’s and gender studies, and ethnic studies.  Through this project, we invite the participation of Oaxacan youth living in the states of Oaxaca, California, and Oregon, involve them in these conversations, and strengthen transborder community ties. › Continue reading

Crisis in Honduras: Political Violence, the U.S. Drug War and the Roots of Migration, a talk by Padre Melo

Eugene Friends Meeting House
2274 Onyx Street
Eugene, OR

Presenters: Rev. Ismael Moreno Coto, SJ and Lucy Edwards

Honduran Jesuit priest Ismael Moreno Coto, known as Padre Melo, has been on the receiving end of death threats and intimidation in a country that is the murder capital of the world and at the center of the U.S. government’s war on drugs. He is director of Radio Progreso, a radio network that covers northern Honduras. Thirty journalists have been among the hundreds of assassinated in Honduras since the 2009 coup d’état, yet Honduras is virtually invisible to U.S. citizens. › Continue reading

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Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples keynote address to highlight symposium

Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples keynote address to highlight symposium | Communications.