LASA
Led by new president Lynn Stephen, LASA forms an anti-harassment task force at annual meeting
A story in the May 29, 2018 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education discusses the new anti-harassment task force of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and quotes newly seated LASA president Lynn Stephen, University of Oregon professor of anthropology and founding director of CLLAS.
In the article “A Scholarly Group Had Avoided Talk of Harassment in Its Midst. Now It Seeks to ‘Start Anew,’” writer Nell Gluckman reports that Dr. Stephen announced the task force and policy at the annual meeting, which was attended last week by about 7,000 scholars and held in Barcelona. Stephen said that the group would look into harassment of all kinds, not just sexual harassment.
“We wanted to make a very strong statement,” Stephen said. “It’s not just a one-off for one year.”
For the full article, go to: Chronicle of Higher Education / LASA.
Visions of Social Difference: Race, Space, and Visuality in Rio de Janeiro
| January 12, 2018 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 1:00 pm |
Room 122
Knight Library Collaboration Center
1501 Kincaid St.
UO campus
Visions of Social Difference: Race, Space, and Visuality in Rio de Janeiro
A discussion with Dr. Lorraine Leu, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies, Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) & Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Leu’s talk centers around pictorial representations of blackness in a neighborhood destroyed in 1922 and unpacks the visions of social difference they produce. These images include paintings, lithographs, political cartoons, and photographs that mobilize ways of looking that help us to understand the spatial and cultural constructions of racialized others. › Continue reading
UO professor Lynn Stephen to lead world Latin America scholars association
Professor Lynn Stephen (right) in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Editor’s Note: Lynn Stephen is the founding director of CLLAS.
March 31, 2017 (from Around the O) — “UO anthropology professor Lynn Stephen, an internationally known Latin America scholar, is in line to lead the largest association of researchers in the field after being elected vice president of the Latin American Studies Association.
“Stephen will begin a one-year term in June and will then serve as president of the association for a year beginning in June 2018. After that, she’ll spend a year mentoring the next generation of the group’s leaders.
“‘I am honored by my election as future LASA president,’ Stephen said. ‘I will use the office to continue building hemispheric relations in the Americas and beyond in the face of isolationist policy proposals.’”
For the entire story, go to: UO professor to lead world Latin America scholars association | Around the O
Dr. Lynn Stephen Elected Vice-President of Latin American Studies Association
Lynn Stephen
March 6, 2017— University of Oregon professor Lynn Stephen, founding director of the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, was elected vice-president of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for the term beginning June 1, 2017 and ending May 31, 2018. On June 1, 2018, she will assume the presidency of LASA for a 12-month period, until May 31, 2019. Dr. Stephen holds the title of Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology.
“This is one of the highest honors for a scholar working on Latin America. This election is the culmination of Lynn’s many years of dedication and committment with LASA and the larger community of scholars, activists, and peoples in Latin America and the US,” reported Carlos Aguirre, UO Professor of History.
From the LASA website: › Continue reading
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