Conference
2021 CLLAS Symposium
| April 22, 2021 | ||
| 3:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
| April 23, 2021 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 6:30 pm |
Languages on the Move: Linguistic Diaspora, Indigeneity, and Politics in the Americas
April 22, 2021 – April 23, 2021
For complete information, follow this link:
https://cllas.uoregon.edu/2021-symposium/
How To Attend
All panels, presentations, and performances will be remote. To join the CLLAS email list and receive Zoom login information, please email us at cllas@uoregon.edu or subscribe here.
This symposium falls directly within our theme of inquiry with focus on linguistic diaspora, indigenous languages, other forms of language, and the politics of language in the Americas.
Cine-Lit 9—A conference on Hispanic Cinema and Literature
| March 8, 2019 | to | March 11, 2019 |
Locations: UO PDX and PSU
See also: https://around.uoregon.edu/content/women-hispanic-film-and-literature-focus-pdx-gathering
Founded in 1990, Cine-Lit is the continuing, cooperative organization between the University of Oregon, Portland State University, and Oregon State University that, in conjunction with the Portland International Film Festival, organizes an international symposium on Hispanic film and literature every 3-4 years. The conference is held at the UO PDX and PSU.
This 9thedition highlights the theme of WOMEN (women filmmakers, representations of women and genders and so on).
For the UO Eugene,this is a signature event for faculty and students working in Hispanic cultures across disciplines in the Humanities, as the occasion showcases UO faculty and students who come from Eugene to participate in conference sessions, round tables, filmmaker lectures and film screenings at the University of Oregon’s Portland campus. In past conferences, faculty and graduate students from Romance Languages, Cinema, Women and Gender Studies, Journalism, History and Latin American Studies have participated in the conference and film festival.
New for 2019 is a campaign to create two conference sessions dedicated to the presentation of Eugene undergraduate research on Hispanic cinema and culture.
The second initiative new for 2019 is that peer-reviewed articles based on conference papers from 2015 (and, later for 2019) will be published in a special issue of the new UO-based academic journal Peripherica http://journals.oregondigital.org/index.php/peripherica/index.
Activities
- Over three days, professors, graduate and undergraduate students share their research on the relationship between cinema and literature. They also participate in workshops, attend roundtable discussions by the writers and cineastes invited by the symposium, and listen to the keynotes. All meetings are free and open to the public.
- Each afternoon and evening speakers and audiences have to opportunity to watch the latest Hispanic films featured at the Portland International Film Festival in connection to the themes discussed at the conference.
- One highlight is the presence of the Hispanic directors invited by Cine-Lit and whose films are featured by the Festival. Cine-Lit participants and our university students interact with these invited artists.
Environmental Justice, Race, and Public Lands: A Symposium
| May 9, 2018 | to | May 11, 2018 |
Full Schedule: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/ejrpl/
Cosponsored by CLLAS
This symposium focuses on issues of equity and environmental justice on public lands. The event brings together practitioners engaged in
diversity, equity, and inclusion work throughout the Pacific Northwest with scholars focused on race, environmental justice, and/or Indigeneity as they relate to public lands.
- Wednesday, May 9th @ 6:30pm in the Many Nations Longhouse: Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples Lecture featuring Dr. Karletta Chief and Dr. Margaret Hiza-Redsteer.
- Thursday, May 10th @ 7:30pm in Straub 156: Dr. Kyle Powys Whyte will deliver a keynote entitled “Ironic Storytelling for Public Lands: Indigenizing Justice and Coalition-Building.”
- Friday, May 11th @ 7:30pm in Straub 156: Dr. Carolyn Finney, the author of Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors, will deliver the final keynote.
The symposium also includes panels on Practioner Perspectives on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion on Public Lands, Historical perspectives on Race, Environmental Justice, and Public Lands, Decolonizing Public Lands, and Labor as Public Lands Environmental Justice Issue. › Continue reading
Writing Migration Conference
| May 3, 2018 | to | May 4, 2018 |
Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus
Writing Migration Conference
For up-to-date information about the Writing Migration Conference May 3 – 4, 2018, go to: gerscan.uoregon.edu
In light of the global importance of contemporary migrations of populations, from Latin America to the US and Canada, from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, and in many other directions, the German Studies Committee of the University of Oregon, has organized a conference titled ‘Writing Migration’. The conference is an interdisciplinary gathering of talks on contemporary migrations (and some historical backgrounds and precedents) in a global context, on the writing of migration, and on the migrations of writing, along crucial South-North, East-West regional trajectories and transitions. Border-contexts considered include: Mexico-US; Africa-Europe; Middle East-Europe. Contemporary and modern philosophical perspectives invoked include transborder studies, postcolonial studies, deconstruction, media studies, and ordinary language philosophy. All presentations are free and open to the public.
The Writing Migration Conference will take place on May 3rd and 4th, 2018. Sessions will be held in the Knight Library Browsing room. In addition, there is a special talk by Father Alejandro Solalinde planned for 5:30 in PLC 180. The conference is free and open to the public.
Tentative Schedule
May 3rd Knight Library Browsing Room
11:00-11:15 Introduction
11:15-1:00 Session One: Migrations in Reality, Thought, and Text
- Lynn Stephen (Anthropology, UO), “Attacking Family Unity and Racial and Economic Diversity: Ending TPS Status for Central Americans and Haitians and Beyond”
- Thomas Nail (Philosophy, University of Denver), “The Figure of the Migrant”
- Mushira Habib (Comparative Literature, UO), “Migration in Claudia Rankine’s American Lyric”
1:00-3:00 Lunch Break
3:00-5:00 Session Two: Hybridity of Culture in the Colonial Borderlands
- Pedro Garcia-Caro (Latin American Studies, UO), “From the Stacks to the Stage: Recovering Transborder Latinx Cultural History (1789-2018)”
- Gordon Sayre (English, UO), “The Villasur Massacre of 1720: Nuevo Mexico and la Louisiane collide on the Great Plains”
- Olga Sanchez-Saltveit (Theater Arts, UO), “Tricks to Inherit: Re-Centering a Transnational Translation on Stage”
5:00-5:15 Coffee Break
May 3rd PLC 180
5:30-7:00 Annual Bartolome de las Casas Lecture on Human Rights: Father Alejandro Solalinde**, “The Migrant’s Path/El Camino del Migrante”
**Co-sponsored by the Division of Equity and Inclusion, the Latin American Studies Program, and the Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies
May 4th Knight Library Browsing Room
9:00-10:30 Session One: Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage: Migration’s Alienations
- Dorothee Ostmeier (German and Scandinavian, UO)
- Michael Najjar (Theater Arts, UO)
- With actors: Penta Swanson (Mother Courage), Chris Arreola (The Cook), Dashaun Valentino-Vegas (The Chaplain), and Madeline Williams (Kattrin).
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session Two: Contemporary Representations of Migration in Northern Europe
- Sonja Boos (German and Scandinavian, UO), “‘My Escape / Meine Flucht:’ Techfugees, Smartphones, and the Construction of a Personal Documentary.”
- Benjamin Mier-Cruz (German and Scandinavian, UO), “Brown-Eyed Boy: Being Swedish and Straight Enough in Berlin in Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Everything I Don’t Remember“
12:30-2:30 Lunch Break
2:30-4:15 Session Three: Migrations of Image and Figure
- David Martyn (German, Macalester College), “Grammatical Metaphor? Writing as Migration”
- Jeff Sacks (Comparative Literature, UC Riverside), “Language Demands: Motion and Pain in Wittgenstein and La’abi”
4:15-5:00 Closing Discussion
This event is organized by the Department of German & Scandinavian, and co-sponsored by:
- the Department of Romance Languages
- the Department of Philosophy
- the Department of Comparative Literature
- the Department of Latin American Studies
- CLLAS: Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies
- the Global Studies Institute
- the UO College of Arts & Sciences
- the Oregon Humanities Center
Symposium will focus on migration across the Americas
See story about the CLLAS Symposium in Around the O: https://around.uoregon.edu/content/symposium-will-focus-migration-across-americas?utm_source=ato03-06-18
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