2015-16 Events

Fall Quarter 2015

• “Latina/os and K-12 Education: Bridging Research and Practice,” with Eugene School District 4J superintendent Dr. Gustavo Balderas and scholar Dr. Patricia Gándara, co-director of the Civil Rights Project of UCLA, Oct. 15, Ford Alumni Center
• CLLAS Graduate Student Grantee Presentation: Theresa Gildner, Anthropology: “Diurnal Testosterone Variation Among Indigenous Shuar Men from Amazonian Ecuador,” Nov. 19, EMU.

 Winter Quarter 2016

• Grant Writing Workshop for Graduate Students, Jan. 14, Jane Grant Conference Room
• CLLAS RAP Work-in-Progress Talk. 1/22, 12–1 p.m., 330 Hendricks Hall
• CLLAS Grad Grantee Presentation: “At the Border: A comparative analysis of U.S. newspaper reporting about unaccompanied immigrant children,” Ricardo Valencia (SOJC, Media Studies), 1/27,  125 McKenzie Hall.
• “Chicano Park Anchor of Barrio Logan,” a talk by Hector Villegas, Chicano Artist, Feb. 8, Lawrence 115
• RAP event: ID-ing the Issues of Afro-descendant and Indigenous Peoples in L.A., 1/20, 330 Hendricks Hall.
• Cosponsored Event: Symposium of Spanish as a Heritage Language, 2/18 – 2/20
• Cosponsored Event: “Mexican Migration and the American South,” Julie Weise (History). 2/19
• Cosponsored Event: Martha Gonzalez and Quetzal. 2/25.
• CLLAS RAP Work-in-Progress Talk. 2/26
• CLLAS Visiting Scholar Presentation, Anabel Lopez-Salinas. Condon Hall.

Spring Quarter 2016

• CLLAS Faculty Grant Proposal Writing Workshop: led by Gerardo Sandoval. TBD.
• CLLAS Grad Grantee Presentation: Julia Gómez, “Latin American Iconicities of Absence: A Cognitive Poetic Approach to Mirtha Dermisache’s ‘Unreadable’ Books,” April 7, Esslingen 107
• CLLAS RAP Work-in-Progress Talk. 4/15, 12–1 p.m., 330 Hendricks Hall.
• Cosponsored Event: “Combining Research and Activism.” TBD.
• Cosponsored Event: CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium May 6 -7. Keynote: Reyna Grande, events at Knight Library Browsing Room and Downtown Eugene Public Library.
• Latin@s and the 2016 Election: Policies, Immigration, & Action. May 13.
• CLLAS RAP Work-in-Progress Talk. 5/13, 12–1 p.m., 330 Hendricks Hall.
• Cosponsored Event: May 16. Festival Latino
• Bartolomé de las Casas Lecture in Latin American Studies.