CLLAS Events 2018-19
Fall Quarter 2018
• Teach-In, “Film and Activism,” Peter Bratt (Director, Film-Maker).
• Film-screening and discussion, “Dolores,” Peter Bratt.
• Graduate Student Mixer.
• Faculty & Staff Mixer.
Winter Quarter 2019
• “Town Hall with Mae Ngai,” presentation and discussion: Rocio Zambrana (Department of Philosophy).
• Professional Development Workshop, “Grant-Writing for Graduate Students,” Erin Beck (Political Science).
• Research Series Graduate Colloquium, “Latinx and Latin American Cultural Production & Resistance,” Olga Sánchez (Theatre Arts) and Natascha Reich (Musicology).
• Research Series Faculty Collaboration, “Struggling with Sustainability: Guarayo Cultural and Environmental Management Challenges,” Ed Wolf (Musicology) and Derrick Hindery (International Studies).
• Professional Development Workshop, “NEH Grant-Writing,” Stephanie Wood (Center for Equity Promotion).
• CLLAS Latinx Lecture, “Justice and Reparations in Guatemala,” Judge Yassmin Barrios (Guatemala Human Rights Tribunal).
• Latinx Studies Seed Grant, “The Femeniños Project: Literature and Visual Media for Queer Latino/x Youth,” Ernesto Martínez (Ethnic Studies).
• Latinx Studies Retreat, Latinx Studies In The Pacific Rim: Race, Gender And Environmental Justice,” Alaí Reyes-Santos (Ethnic Studies).
Spring Quarter 2019
• “Why are the Migrants Fleeing Honduras? Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup,” Dana Frank (Professor of History Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz).
• Research Series Faculty Collaboration, “The Expression of the Latino/a Experience Through Album Cover Art: 1940-1990, a Conversation between Philip W. Scher and Pablo E. Yglesias, Co-curators of the Exhibition,” Philip Scher (Anthropology) and Pablo E. Yglesias (Artist, Writer, Musician).
• Research Series Graduate Colloquium, “Environmental Justice, Migration & Labor: Local/Global Implications,” Holly Moulton (Environmental Studies) and Diego Conteras (Sociology). Moderator: Mark Carey (Clark Honors College).
• Research Series Graduate Colloquium, “Identity, Labor & Agency in Chichén Itzá and the Bolivian Lowlands,” Sofia Videl (Anthropology) and Maria Pomes Lorences (International Studies). Moderator: Derrick Hindery (International Studies).
• Research Series Graduate Colloquium, “Changing the Structures: Ending Gendered Violence in Guatemala & Promoting Scientific Diplomacy across the Americas,” Caitlin O’Quinn (Political Science) and Lourdes Ginart (Geography). Moderator: Erin Beck (Political Science).