Latin America
The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America Website Launch
| March 11, 2020 | ||
| 3:00 pm | to | 5:00 pm |
Join us for undergraduate research presentations and the launching of the website “The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America.” The event showcases the work of students from the Honors College Colloquium focusing on Latin America’s Jewish diaspora, their customs and languages, led by professor Monique Balbuena.
This event is part of CLLAS’ Two-year Theme, “The Politics of Language in the Americas: Power, Culture, History, and Resistance.”
Refreshments will be served!
Carlos Aguirre coedits new book of essays on the history of libraries in Latin America
Bibliotecas y cultura letrada en América Latina. Siglos XIX y XX
coedited by Carlos Aguirre and Ricardo D. Salvatore
(Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica, 2018)
Bibliotecas y cultura letrada en América Latina. Siglos XIX y XX—a new volume of essays coedited by UO history professor Carlos Aguirre—has just been published in Lima.
The essays in this volume shed light on the history of various types of libraries in Latin America and, in particular, their role in social and cultural conflicts, processes of nation-state formation, efforts towards bringing education and literacy to different types of populations, and the accumulation of cultural and symbolic capital. This volume seeks to contribute to the cultural and political history of libraries and lettered culture in the region and to open lines of conversation with other disciplines and forms of knowledge interested in the preservation of cultural patrimony, the circulation of knowledge, and the tensions and debates they generate. For more, go to Fondo Editorial.
CLLAS Receives Tinker Foundation Grant for Graduate Student Funding
University of Oregon is Now a Tinker University
The Board of Directors of the Tinker Foundation <http://www.tinker.org> has approved a matching grant of $10,000—renewable for three years—to the University of Oregon to initiate a Tinker Field Research Grants Program within the Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies (CLLAS). Thanks to matching funds being contributed from the UO Office of Academic Affairs and the Graduate School, CLLAS will have $20,000 available each of three years to sponsor graduate student research.
The Tinker Field Research Grants are open to students across all academic disciplines and graduate degree programs. The grants are to assist master’s and doctoral students with travel and field-related expenses for brief periods of field research in Latin America. A detailed call for proposals will be available soon on the CLLAS website. › Continue reading
“Media Reform in Latin America: The struggles of communication public policies in the Global South”
| April 9, 2014 | ||
| 3:30 pm | to | 4:30 pm |
Hendricks Hall 330
Jane Grant Room
1408 University St.
A presentation by Rodrigo Gómez,Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico) and Fulbright visiting scholar at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication
To understand the Latin American arena of media policies, one must understand the control powerful media groups have had on media systems and their strong ties to authoritarian regimes and dictatorships-, which have shaped the weak practices of public broadcasting. Today, Latin America is reshaping its communication systems to give meaning to the changes, challenges and struggles that are happening in different regions.
Presentation sponsored by Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies and the Latin American Studies Program.
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