Gender & Sexuality
Gender and Sexuality in Latin America Graduate Colloquium
| January 21, 2020 | ||
| 12:00 pm |
Browsing Room, Knight Library, 1501 Kincaid St.
Winter Graduate Research Colloquium
a CLLAS Research Series event
- “The Role of Inner Exile in Racial, Sexual, and Gendered Minority Community Formation and Sustenance in Chile And Argentina,” Jon Jaramillo, Romance Languages
- “LGBTQ+ Migrants: Strategizing Survival and Love at the U.S.-Mexico Border,” Polet Campos-Melchor, Anthropology
- “’A Luta Continua:’ Gender-based Violence and the Politics of Justice and Care in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,” Emily Masucci, Anthropology
Moderated by Gabriela Martinez, School of Journalism and Communication.
The research presented at this CLLAS Research Series event was funded by the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies and the Tinker Foundation. All events are free and open to the public. Light refreshments to be served. Please call (541) 346-5286 or visit cllas.uoregon.edu for more information. EO/AA/ADA Institution; Committed to Cultural Diversity.
Ernesto Martínez’s short film “La Serenata” an award finalist
July 31, 2019—Ernesto Martínez’s short film, La Serenata, is a finalist in the Imagen Foundation Short Film and Web Series Awards.
You can support this film by voting below and inviting friends and family to vote as well (one vote per 24 hours). You could also watch the film at this site: https://www.imagen.org/vote/short-films/
Film synopsis: two parents struggle with their beloved Mexican musical tradition when their son requests a love song for another boy.
Ernesto Martínez is an associate professor in the UO Department of Ethnic Studies. CLLAS supported Martínez’s work on this film and a related children’s book with its inaugural Latinx Studies Seed Grant.
Producing Literature & Film for Queer Latinx Youth
| October 13, 2018 | ||
| 5:00 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
EMU—145
Crater Lake South Room
Producing Literature & Film for Queer Latinx Youth
A Film Discussion and Book Celebration
Join us for a discussion of the groundbreaking new bilingual queer Latinx children’s book When We Love Someone We Sing To Them, and get a “sneak peak” of our new short film La Serenata. Light refreshments provided.
- Maya Christina González, award-winning queer Chicana Illustrator, author, progressive educator and publisher. www.reflectionpress.com
- Adelina Anthony, critically acclaimed and award-winning Two Spirit Xicana Lesbiana actor, writer, director, producer, and teaching artist.
- Ernesto Javier Martínez, queer Chicano-rican educator and writer, ethnic studies professor at the UO.
Sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies, College of Arts & Sciences, Division of Equity & Inclusion, Wayne Morse Center for Law & Politics, Center for the Study of Women in Society, and the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.
McKinley receives Ligia Parra Jahn Award for best journal article
Michelle McKinley
UO law professor and CLLAS affiliate Michelle McKinley is the 2014 winner of the Ligia Parra Jahn Award. This award is given for the best publication (book or article) on women’s history or publication written by a woman and published in 2014 that began as a Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS) presentation. Dr. McKinley was chosen as the winner for her Journal of Family History article: “Illicit Intimacies: Virtuous Concubinage in Colonial Lima.”
Dr. McKinley is the Bernard K. Kliks Professor of Law at the University of Oregon and a former advisory board member of the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies. She teaches immigration law and policy, refugee and asylum law. She publishes on public international law and Latin American legal history. Currently she is a fellow in residence at Princeton University, where she is working on her monograph on enslaved women in colonial Latin America and their attempts to litigate claims to freedom. › Continue reading
Cuban science fiction scholar Yasmín S. Portales Machado to speak at UO
| May 13, 2015 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 1:00 pm |
Yasmín S. Portales Machado
Jane Grant Conference Room
330 Hendricks Hall
1408 University St.
printable flyer PDF
“In Search of Estraven III: Homophobia, Feminism & (Homo)Sexualities in Cuban Science Fiction of the 21st Century”
a CSWS Noon Tak with Yasmin Silvia Portales Machado
A science fiction scholar and gay rights activist, Yasmín S. Portales Machado is a freelance journalist for cubaliteraria.cu and havanatimes.org. She is the coordinator in Cuba of the “Anticapitalism and Emergent Sociability” Work Group of the Latin American Council for Social Sciences and founder of the Cuban Digital Humanities Network. Her blog is: http://yasminsilvia.blogspot.com/ › Continue reading
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