“Place and Belonging: Policing Immigrant Lives at the State and Local Scales”

Giustina Ballroom
Ford Alumni Center
1720 E. 13th Ave.

Please join us for the third event in the Wayne Morse Center Migration Project’s 2012-13 speaker series “The Borders Within: Immigrants, Race, and the Politics of Surveillance and Enforcement in the United States.” › Continue reading

“Latinas and Citizenship in Oregon” an essay by Marcela Mendoza

“Latinas and Citizenship in Oregon”
Author(s): Marcela Mendoza
Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 113, No. 3 (Fall 2012), pp. 444-451
Published by: Oregon Historical Society

Abstract: Marcela Mendoza considers the relationship between family and citizenship in Oregon’s Latino community, particularly by looking at how women’s work both maintains the continuity of cultural heritage and facilitates settlement into new communities. Drawing on the work of other scholars and her own experience with recent immigrants, Mendoza makes suggestions about how historians may investigate the history of Latina women and citizenship in Oregon.

Marcela Mendoza is an affiliated faculty member of the UO Department of Anthropology and executive director of CentroLatino Americano in Eugene, Oregon.

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

“The U.S.-Mexico Border through the Eyes of a Writer” — a lecture by Guillermo Arriaga

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA)
Lecture Room
1430 Johnson Lane, UO campus

The Bartolome de las Casas Lecture in Latin American Studies

THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER THROUGH THE EYES OF A WRITER

A lecture by Guillermo Arriaga

Writer and director Guillermo Arriaga discusses the influence of border issues on his work. Arriaga is renowned for his fragmentary, nonlinear narratives that connect characters across national borders, most notably in the “death trilogy” he wrote and Alfonso Inarritu directed: Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel. Arriaga’s The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, directed by Tommy Lee Jones, deals directly with the tensions on the U.S.-Mexican border, a terrain that Arriaga has known well since his childhood. He believes that the border between Mexico and the United States is filled with stories of love and friendship, of violence and cruelty, of hope and desire, and of redemption and criminality. The humanity of these stories can be lost when analysis is done from afar and in the aggregate, rather than from the empathetic position of the storyteller.

GUILLERMO ARRIAGA: WRITER AND DIRECTOR

Cinema Pacific is proud to welcome the legendary screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga to Portland and Eugene. › Continue reading

Berkeley Receives $1M For Undocumented Students

Berkeley Receives $1M For Undocumented Students : NPR.

by Richard Gonzales

“Meng So, coordinator of the University of California, Berkeley’s Undocumented Student Program, says students he helps are from low-income families with no experience navigating a university such as Berkeley. So calls undocumented students ‘underground undergrads.’”

Read the full story on the National Public Radio website.

Mainstream media’s ignorance of Jenni Rivera raises image of parallel Americas

Mainstream media’s ignorance of Jenni Rivera raises image of parallel Americas – The Washington Post.