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.
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
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 |
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
Native Studies Research Colloquium — Lynn Stephen, “Transborder Gendered Violence and Resistance: Indigenous Women Migrants Seeking U.S. Asylum”
December 1, 2014 | ||
12:00 pm | to | 1:30 pm |
Many Nations Longhouse
1630 Columbia St.
UO campus
Free & open to the public
(Bring Your Own Lunch)
“Transborder Gendered Violence and Resistance: Indigenous Women Migrants Seeking U.S. Asylum”
a talk by Dr. Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, and Director of the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) at the University of Oregon
Professor Lynn Stephen’s scholarly work has centered the impact of globalization, migration, nationalism and the politics of culture on indigenous communities in the Americas. Her multi-leveled approach, which engages political-economy, ethnohistory, and ethnography, has provided a hemispheric lens on major challenges faced by indigenous peoples such as out-migration, tourism, economic development, and low-intensity war and their creative responses to these challenges. › Continue reading
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