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Monthly Archive for May, 2011

Spain and Latin American Poetry Lecture: Rosa Chavez

Thursday, December 1, 2011
Knight Browsing Room, Knight Library
University of Oregon, Eugene
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Rosa Chávez (1980) is a Guatemalan poet of Maya K’iche’ origin. Among her books of poetry, we find Casa solitaria (2005), Piedra abaj’ (2009), El corazón de la piedra (2010), and Quitapenas (2010). She is currently studying cinema and television in Casa Comal and participates as part of the Mayan Artists’ Movement, Ri Akux Nikotzijan.

Her work has been published in many journals and anthologies of poetry throughout the United States and Latin America. She has been invited to a number of poetry readings across the Americas and Europe.

 

Spain and Latin American Poetry Lecture: Briceida Cuevas

Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Knight Browsing Room, Knight Library
University of Oregon, Eugene
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Briceida Cuevas Cob (1969) is a Mayan poet from Tepakán, Calkiní, Campeche, México. She has published several poetry books, U yok’ol awat peek’ (El quejido del perro / The dog’s moan) (1995), Je’ bix k’iin (Como el sol / Like The Sun) (1998), Ti’ u billil in nook’ (Del dobladillo de mi ropa / From My Clothes’ Hem) (2008). Her poems have been translated into French, Dutch, English and Italian. She is a founding member of the Mexican Association of Writers of Indigenous Languages.

Ethics in the Americas Conference

November 11 – 13, 2011
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
University of Oregon, Eugene
Free and Open to the Public

This Fall, the Department of Philosophy will host an international conference on ETHICS IN THE AMERICAS.  The conference will be held from the 11th to the 13th of November at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.  The event will include the participation of philosophers and thinkers from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, the United States, and from Native American traditions. Among the speakers to present will be Enrique Dussel (UNAM, Mexico), Eduardo Mendieta (Philosophy Department Stony Brook University), Walter Mignolo (Duke University), Pablo Oyarzun (Chile), Ofelia Schutte (University of South Florida), Charles Scott (Vanderbilt University), and Daniel Wildcat (Haskell University). All events will be free and open to the public. A detailed program for the event will be posted on the Philosophy Department website. For further information, contact Alejandro Vallega, avallega@uoregon.edu.

The conference is co-sponsored by The Oregon Humanities Center, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Latin American Studies Program, the Department of International Studies, and “The Americas in a Globalized World” initiative.

Models of Indigenous Education: Creating Sacred Spaces of Learning

Thursday, November 3, 2011
Many Nations Long House
University of Oregon, Eugene
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

This event is designed to engage our campus-wide community in a dialogue around concepts of Indigenous education. Together, we will critically reflect about how to conceptualize curriculum, determine appropriate teaching strategies, identify core values that resonate with Indigenous peoples, and develop lesson plans to honor their cultures. Speakers include Mary Kim Titla, an educator, publisher, journalist, and long-time advocate for Native American youth; David Lewis, Cultural Resources Department Manager of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde; and Johnpaul Jones, UO 2011 Pietro Belluschi Distinguished Visiting Professor and prominent Native architect. Facilitated by Dr. CHiXapkaid Pavel, Education Studies, and Dr. Brian Klopotek, Ethnic Studies.