Events
Award winning documentary filmmaker Almudena Carracedo coming to UO Jan 13-14
| January 13, 2020 | ||
| 6:00 pm | ||
| January 14, 2020 | ||
| 6:00 pm |
Emmy and Goya-award winning documentary filmmaker Almudena Carracedo is coming to campus for two special screenings of her critically acclaimed films. Carracedo will present the films and hold a Q and A.
Made in LA
Screening: 156 Straub Hall Jan 13 @ 6pm
Made in L.A. is an Emmy award-winning feature documentary that follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from a trendy clothing retailer. In intimate verite style, Made in L.A. reveals the impact of the struggle on each woman’s life as they are gradually transformed by the experience. Compelling, humorous, deeply human, Made in L.A. is a story about immigration, the power of unity, and the courage it takes to find your voice.
The Silence of Others
Screening: 156 Straub Jan 14 @ 6 pm
The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, who continue to seek justice to this day. Filmed over six years, the film follows victims and survivors as they organize the groundbreaking “Argentine Lawsuit” and fight a state-imposed amnesia of crimes against humanity, in a country still divided four decades into democracy.
Political Discussion Networks, Political Engagement, and the Latino Electorate
| January 23, 2020 | ||
| 4:00 pm |
Knight Library, Browsing Room
Marisa Abrajano is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests are in American politics, particularly in developing ways to increase politics participation and civic engagement amongst racial/ethnic minorities. Her most recent book is White Backlash: Immigration, Race and American Politics (with Zoltan Hajnal, 2015).
Sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. Cosponsored by the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.
Joseph Pierce, “Beyond Translation: Toward a Queer/Cuir Latin American Studies”
| January 30, 2020 |
Save-the-Date
Joseph Pierce, associate professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University, will give a lecture titled “Beyond Translation: Toward a Queer/Cuir Latin American Studies,” on January 30, 2020.
Professor Pierce’s research focuses on indigenous studies, queer studies and hemispheric approaches to citizenship and belonging. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of GLQ, “Queer/Cuir Américas: Translation, Decoloniality, and the Incommensurable,” and he is the author of Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890-1910 (SUNY Press, 2019). Professor Pierce’s visit to the UO is planned in conjunction with a course to be taught by Sergio Rigoletto (associate professor, romance languages) in winter term 2020: RL407/507 Queer from the South.
* CLLAS is cosponsoring this talk as part of its two-year theme (2019-2021)
The Politics of Language in the Americas: Power, Culture, History, and Resistance.
CLLAS Distinguished Lecture in Latinx & Latin American Studies: Filmmaker Alex Rivera
| April 14, 2020 | ||
| 6:00 pm |
Straub Hall, 156
2020 Latino Roots Celebration
| June 3, 2020 | ||
| 4:00 pm |
Knight Library, Browsing Room
Save-the-Date
Please join us at 4 p.m. at the Knight Library Browsing Room for the 2020 Latino Roots Celebration! We will have special guest speakers, student project documentary showings, an exhibit of archived materials, and music.
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CLLAS Common Reading Brunch with author Helena María Viramontes / Photos by Mike Bragg / Courtesy of the UO Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Recent Postings
- Call for 2020 CLLAS Graduate Grant Proposals
- Award winning documentary filmmaker Almudena Carracedo coming to UO Jan 13-14
- CLLAS Research Grant Writing Workshop for Graduate Students
- Tracing the journeys of the Caribbean’s first people
- Gender and Sexuality in Latin America Graduate Colloquium
- Winter 2020 CLLAS Notes
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