Dominican Republic
“¡Santa!: Afro-Diasporic Ways of Being and Knowing,” with CLLAS Visiting Scholar Ana-Maurine Lara
| November 21, 2014 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 5:30 pm |
204 Condon Hall
1321 Kincaid St.
UO campus
CLLAS Visiting Scholar Ana-Maurine Lara to deliver lecture about her research
Ana-Maurine Lara is the first ever Visiting Scholar with the UO Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies. She recently completed her PhD in African American Studies and Anthropology at Yale University. Her first academic book (in-progress) is titled Bodies and Souls: Sexual Terror in God’s New World, and is based on her graduate research, which focused on LGBT political activism and the Catholic state in the Dominican Republic. › Continue reading
Panel Discussion in conjunction with Reconoci.do | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
| March 4, 2015 | ||
| 5:30 pm | to | 6:30 pm |
Panel Discussion in conjunction with Reconoci.do | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
Professors Lanie Millar (Romance Languages), Alaí Reyes-Santos (Ethnic Studies), and Juan Eduardo Wolf (Ethnomusicology) present a panel discussion on human rights issues related to documentation. This talk is in conjunction with the exhibition Reconoci.do: Dominicans of Haitian Descent, funded in part by a JSMA Academic Support Grant.
See more at: http://jsma.uoregon.edu/events/panel-discussion-conjunction-reconocido#sthash.h3htmvFY.dpuf
Ana-Maurine Lara: “LGBT Performances of the Human”
| February 12, 2015 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 5:30 pm |
140 Allen Hall
1020 University St.
UO campus
CLLAS Visiting Scholar Presentation
“LGBT Performances of the Human,” with Ana-Maurine Lara. “In this talk, I will discuss Dominican LGBT activists’ articulations of human-ness through performance and the production of memory in Santo Domingo.”
Ana-Maurine Lara, PhD is a Visiting Scholar with the University of Oregon Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies. Her research focuses on GLBT political activism and Catholic coloniality in the Dominican Republic. She is an award-winning novelist and poet. Her novels include Erzulie’s Skirt (RedBone Press 2006) and When the Sun Once Again Sang to the People (KRK Ediciones 2011); her short stories and poems have been featured in numerous anthologies and literary magazines. Her published scholarship engages topics on Afro-Latin@ and Afro-Diasporic queer identities and aesthetics.
Global Seminar in the Dominican Republic
Global Seminar in the Dominican Republic, Fall 2012
More information coming soon!
Includes an academic class and a service-learning (internship) experience.
An information session will be held this fall.
Meanwhile, to be added to an email list, contact: Irmary Reyes-Santos, Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies at <irmary@uoregon.edu>.
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