CLLAS Newsletters

Winter 2013 CLLAS Notes

• CLLAS Impact Report
• US Department of Education Grant to Boost Latin American Studies at UO
• Revised PCUN History Book Released in Conjunction with the Opening of CAPACES Leadership Institute
• Reports from CLLAS Graduate Student Grantees
• Launching of the Intercultural Competency Program for Graduate Students
• News and update

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Spring 2012_CLLAS_Notes

• “From the Director”—a letter from interim director David Vázquez
• UO-UNAM Draw Closer to Historic Exchange Program
• Afro-Latin@ Studies at UO
• UO to Help Sift Records for Evidence in Guatemalan War Atrocities
• Juventud FACETA and UO Researchers Collaborate to Investigate Links between Racism and Health among Latinos in the Eugene/Springfield Area

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Winter_2012_CLLAS_newsletter

• “The Oregon Latino Heritage Collaborative”—News about the historic partnership between UO and PCUN
• CLLAS Graduate Student Research Grants—“The Political Economy of Land Conflict in a Transborder Oaxacan Community” and “Huerto de la Familia”
• Event reports on Spain and Latin America through Contemporary Poetry; Indigenous Language Revitalization; Chiapas Photography Project; and Models of Indigenous Education
• Students Tour One of Oregon’s Largest Latino Businesses

Spring_2011_CLLAS_newsletter

This fourth edition of  CLLAS Notes includes:

• “From the Director”—a letter from Lynn Stephen
• “Documenting Latino Roots”—Oral history project takes off in the classroom: project notes from four students
• “Reporting on CLLAS Graduate Student Research Grants”
• “Sustaining Latino Small Businesses in Eugene and Springfield, Oregon”
• “English professor David Vázquez Named Interim CLLAS Director”

Winter_2011_CLLAS_newsletter

This third edition of  CLLAS Notes includes:

• “Collaborations—Working with Others for the Greater Good”—a letter from CLLAS director Lynn Stephen
• “Building New Leadership at PCUN”—Oregon’s Farmworker Movement Plans for the Future
• “Reporting on CLLAS Graduate Student Research Grants”
• “Assessing Community Leaders’ Views on Immigrant-Community Relations”

Spring 2010 CLLAS newsletter

This second edition of  CLLAS Notes includes:

• “A Groundbreaking Pilot Study”—CLLAS-funded research gleans valuable information about Latino students at UO
• “CLLAS Kickoff Celebration”
• “Latino Roots in Oregon: A Documentary Film Project”
• CLLAS grantees announced for the 2010-11 academic year
• CLLAS News and Update

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Winter 2010 CLLAS newsletter

This first edition of CLLAS Notes includes:

• “A New UO Research Center”—news about the origins of CLLAS by director Lynn Stephen
• “Witnessing a Social Movement”—the “Making Rights a Reality” digital ethnography website about the 2006 Oaxaca social movement
• “Mexican Masculinities in Dispute: Popular Icons of the Borderlands”
• “Community, Banking, Conflict and Cooperation in Nicaragua” by Elias Meyer