CLAS is in Session

Coca & the Amazon, with Photographer Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo

Join us on Thursday, November 3rd, 11:30 AM - 1 PM in the Barnett Center Collaboratory (141 Sullivant Hall) to learn about the photographic and community work of Colombian and American photographer Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo.

In her talk, Alexandra will present her photographic project ESX/COCA (leaves) on the sacred nature of the coca plant to the Nasa indigenous people of Colombia, and on the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon faced by the ancestral Mura indigenous people. Find more event details and learn more about Alexandra's award-winning work here.

Alexandra's visit is made possible through an Artist Trajectory Grant from the Colombian Ministry of Culture, and through Title VI National Resource Center funding offered by the Indiana University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Racial Discourses on US-Mexico Border Region Indigenous Identities & Rights

On Fri., Nov. 4, 2:20 - 3:40 PM, the Department of Spanish & Portuguese will host Dr. Christina Leza, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colorado College, for a talk via Zoom on her work on racial discourses in the U.S-Mexico border region and indigenous identities and rights.

Find the Zoom link and view an event flyer here.

Food Sovereignty Workshop: Community-Centered Approaches for Food Systems Transformation | Area Studies Centers, Global Water Institute, OSU Libraries

Thursday, October 13 - Friday, October 14

Re-storying All Our Relations: A puppet-making workshop on epistemic justice | Pachaysana

Tuesday, October 25

Pachaysana Study Abroad Program Information Session | Global Education

Tuesday, October 25

Embodying "Unlearning": A theatre and social change workshop | Pachaysana

Wednesday, October 26

Anti-racist Pedagogies Workshop | Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese

Saturday, October 29