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“The Border and Its Meaning: Forgotten Stories” 7th Annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium
| April 25, 2018 | ||
| 2:30 pm | to | 4:30 pm |
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Laila Lalami
cosponsored by CLLAS
Panel Discussion: 3:00 – 4:30 PM UO campus: JSMA Ford Lecture Hall
Light reception: 2:30 – 3 p.m. JSMA Ford Lecture Hall
Laila Lalami, novelist and columnist for The Nation, will read portions of her novel The Moor’s Account, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Commenting on their selected passages will be panelists:
- Liz Bohls, PhD, Professor, Department of English
- Miriam Gershow, MFA, novelist & Associate Director of Composition, Department of English
- Angela Joya, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of International Studies
- Lamia Karim, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
- Michael Najjar, MFA, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre Arts
Keynote, Laila Lalami: “The Border and Its Meaning: Forgotten Stories,” 6 PM Eugene Public Library (with Q&A followed by booksigning)
To be held April 25, 2018, the 7th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium will feature Pulitzer finalist Laila Lalami and her novel The Moor’s Account. › Continue reading
2018 CLLAS Symposium “Justice Across Borders: Gender, Race, and Migration in the Americas”
| March 8, 2018 | ||
| 9:00 am | to | 7:30 pm |
Knight Library, Browsing Room, 1501 Kincaid St.
and Gerlinger Lounge, 1468 University St.
Free & open to the public
Justice Across Borders: Gender, Race, and Migration in the Americas
Our thematic line of inquiry this year: America, Bridge Between Oceans poses the following questions: What happens when we put the Atlantic world in conversation with the Pacific? What kind of art and cultural production emerges? Which stories of struggles for racial, economic, gender and environmental justice arise? How does looking at Latinx and Latin American Studies from within the Pacific Rim region open up innovative and necessary methodological and analytical horizons? These questions also inspire our symposium Justice Across Borders: Gender, Race, and Migration in the Americas. › Continue reading
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