CLAS is in Session

Inclusive Language across Latin America

CLAS, in collaboration with Union Institute & University's Institute for Social Justice, presents a new series of conversations about inclusive language. This free series will take place on Zoom and consist of 3 panels (all times EDT/EST):

• Oct. 13, 2-4pm: Spanish
• Nov. 2, 4-6pm: Portuguese
• Nov. 15, 4-6pm: Indigenous Languages (Nahuatl, Quechua, Yucatec Maya)

The series will offer a panorama of inclusive language in these languages in terms of its linguistic manifestation, adoption by speakers, relationship to gender roles and cultural norms, connection to social movements and human rights, etc. Each conversation will be led by a diverse team of panelists with unique expertise and perspectives who will educate and challenge us on these topics.

Rethinking Haiti:
Past, Present, & Future Promise

Join The Institute for Social Jusice (Union Institute & University) on Wed., Oct. 6 at 7pm (EDT) via Zoom for a free webinar on Haiti.

Panelists Dr. Bayyinah Bello and Dr. Gérard Alphonse Férère will explore the reasons Haiti cannot be disregarded in discourses about the Western Hemisphere and “New World” colonialism, the structural racism that has erased Haiti’s noteworthy history, and the structures of imperialism that set the stage for Haiti’s deep impoverishment in the contemporary world.

Register here for the Zoom link.

Empowerment through Online Learning

Join The Institute for Social Jusice (Union Institute & University) on Tues., Oct. 12 at 6pm (EDT) via Zoom for a free webinar entitled "Empowerment through Online Learning: How Access to Education Fosters Social Justice Now and in the Future."

Four distinguished panelists of diverse backgrounds will discuss how making education accessible advances social justice and what practices, methodologies, and technology (including online learning) they have developed, deployed, or promoted in the past, what has worked, and what their vision is for the future.

Register here for the Zoom link.

"Women Leaders in Latin American Education" Conference

The Latinx & Latin American Studies Faculty Working Group at Teachers College, in partnership with the Institute of Latin American Studies, both at Columbia University, invite you to a virtual, two-day conference on education policy, "Women Leaders in Latin American Education," on Oct. 19 and 20, 2021 from 3-4:30pm (EDT).

Meeting global and national demands in education policy is a challenge for educational leaders worldwide, but advancing policies for women leaders presents different challenges. With that in mind, this conference brings together prominent women leaders in higher education in Latin America to discuss the challenges they encounter to meet education policy demands nationally and internationally, all from a gender perspective.

Register to receive the link for Panel 1 here and for Panel 2 here.

Featured FLAS Fellows:
Deborah Waughtal & Tara Hazel

Under the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies program, CLAS offers summer and academic year fellowships for graduate and undergraduate students who need advanced training in language and area studies.
The next application window for FLAS fellowships will open in early November '21, with a February '22 deadline. Stay tuned!

Deborah Waughtal (left) is a graduate FLAS fellow in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese studying Quechua.
Tara Hazel (right) is a graduate FLAS fellow in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese studying Portuguese.

Latin America featured prominently at Worlds in Contention conference

On May 7-8, 2021, OSU's Area Studies Centers and Department of Political Science partnered to host Worlds in Contention: Race, Neoliberalism, & Injustice. Through Title VI funding, CLAS sponsored invited speakers whose presentations addressed topics ranging from land disputes and sociopolitical tensions in Colombia, to the impact on indigenous women of resource extraction in Mexico, to the complex future of green technologies across Latin America, to government framings of and responses to the COVID pandemic in Mexico.

The Area Studies Centers also supported OSU graduate students through a conference fellowship program. Read these graduate students' reflections and learn more about the Latin American content presented at the conference here.

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