CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

CLAS is in Session

November 21, 2022

Ohio Latin Americanist Conference 2023

The keynote speaker for OLAC 2023 (Feb. 24-25, 2023) will be award-winning author and OSU Quechua instructor Elvia Andia Grágeda.

Elvia Andia Grágeda

Andia Grágeda's keynote address will be entitled "What does the resistance look like today? La irónica necesidad de pedir la inclusión y reconocimiento de los pueblos indígenas en tiempos y espacios modernos." Read a full abstract and speaker bio here.

OLAC 2023 will also feature a film screening of Return to the Andes alongside display of the Hidden Life of Things pop-up exhibit of Andean and Amazonian cultural artifacts.

There's still time to submit your proposal for OLAC! Submission deadline: Friday, December 9.

New issue of Textos Híbridos

The Fall 2022 (Vol. 9, No. 2) issue of Textos Híbridos, a journal dedicated to the critical study of the Latin American chronicle from the 19th century to the present, is now available.

This issue includes a contribution by Henrique Yagui Takahashi, a CLAS Tinker Fellow and PhD candidate in Latin American Cultural & Literary Studies. Henrique's article, entitled “Diário de um detento” y la autoría de la Masacre de Carandiru, analyzes various discourses surrounding the most significant tragedy in the Brazilian penitentiary system.

Henrique argues that whereas mainstream media cast the massacre as a singular event rather than evidence of systemic Brazilian state violence, hip hop and other narratives pointed to broader patterns of mass extermination of marginalized populations.

Call for OER Proposals:
Digital Library of the Caribbean

The Digital Library of the Caribbean invites proposals from individuals and groups seeking to develop and share freely available educational materials, or open educational resources (OER), in Caribbean studies.

College and university educators, librarians, archivists, museum curators, instructional designers, graduate students, independent scholars, and other institutions engaged in the creation of educational materials (course modules, recorded lectures, curatred primary source sets, digital exhibits, etc.) in Caribbean studies are all encouraged to apply.

Proposals will be due March 15, 2023. Find more details, including the full Call for Participation here.

OSU SACNAS Chapter Recognized at National Conference

The OSU Chapter of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) is an active campus community that supports minorities in STEM.

More than 35 members of the OSU Chapter attended this year's annual SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference in Puerto Rico, and the Chapter's Undergraduate Recruitment Chair Chris Kalman won an Outstanding Research Presentation award.

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Memories of My Father at The Gateway

Beginning December 9 Memories of My Father (El olvido que seremos), a 2020 Colombian film from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Fernando Trueba, will be showing at the Gateway Film Center.

"In the polarized and violent Medellín (Colombia’s ‘City of Eternal Spring’) of the 1970s, prominent doctor and human rights activist Héctor Abad Gómez is concerned about both his children and children from less favored classes. After a devastating loss in the family, Héctor gives himself to the greater cause of public health programs for the poor in Medellín to the consternation of the city’s authorities. [...] This is an intimate story that we see from the eyes of a father’s only son, Héctor Abad Faciolince, one of the most outstanding writers in contemporary Colombia."