Ecuador
Teach-In: “States of Exception in Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia”
| November 26, 2019 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
Lillis Hall 111
Department of Romance Languages has organized a Teach-In session to discuss “States of Exception in Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia.” These are pivotal moments in the contemporary history of Latin America, and we want to encourage our community to stay informed. I hope you can join us, send your students, and invite members of the community.
Brief presentations (45 minutes) + Q/A (45 minutes) + poetry and music (20 minutes)
Chile: Yosa Vidal Collados, Ruth Vargas, Jesús Sepúlveda
Ecuador: Jon Jaramillo, Erika Lincango
Bolivia: Derrick Hindery, Javier Velasco, Magela Baudoin
*This event is sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages, Latin American Studies and the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies. Any questions, please contact Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, enjuto@uoregon.edu or Pedro García-Caro pgcaro@uoregon.edu
Belen Norona: “Recreating Territories: Academic Input in Struggles for Land”
| February 2, 2017 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 5:30 pm |
Condon 106
1321 Kincaid St.
UO campus
CLLAS Graduate Grantee Presentation
María Belén Noroña, a graduate teaching fellow in the Department of Geography, will discuss alternative ways in which indigenous communities produce understandings of territory when material control over such resources is threatened by mining activities. In collaboration with an indigenous community in the Amazon of Ecuador, Belén explores how socio-spatial relations based on reciprocity, collaboration and solidarity contribute to secure collective means of survival. The process of securing such means of survival require collective action operating at several scales and with multiple actors producing new understandings of territory that extend beyond material relation between the population and their physical space. This talk is part of the Geography Department’s Tea Talk Series. Refreshments will be offered at 3:30 P.M. Belén’s research was funded in part by a Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies grant.
CLLAS Grantee Presentation, Julia Ridgeway-Diaz
| March 3, 2011 | ||
| 3:30 pm | to | 5:00 pm |
331 Klamath Hall
1370 Franklin Blvd.
University of Oregon campus
Ecosystem Change, Westernization, and Women’s Health in Amazonian Ecuador
This project works in collaboration with the Shuar Health and Life History Project of the UO Department of Anthropology to collect data on the health and levels of westernization with the Shuar people of the Amazonian Morona-Santiago region of Southeastern Ecuador. This thesis topic focuses on the effect of the westernization of the Shuar lifestyle on women’s health and reproduction, specifically reproductive health and family planning decisions. In addition, the project hopes to apply this work to predicting future pressures on the ecosystems of the Shuar’s territory. In the short term, the project helps the Shuar track the changes in the health of their community as their economy and environment change. In the long term, this knowledge can be used by other indigenous groups undergoing rapid socioeconomic change to maintain the health of their people and their land.
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