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LC Professor of History Elliott Young has a new Op/Ed in The Portland Tribune entitled, “New art exhibition raises questions about policing in Portland.”

Elliott Young is professor of history at Lewis & Clark College and the author of “Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System.”

Japan Night is a yearly event which takes place at Fields Dining Hall at the end of the Fall semester. 

Join us for a talk by Dr. Andrea Sempértegui titled “Mujeres Amazónicas’ Fight against Extractivism in Ecuador.
Monday, November 20 in Smith Hall from 12:40pm to 1:40 pm

 New course this Spring: Public History Lab: History 308
Tuesdays and Thursdays  1:50pm-3:20pm
This version of the course will focus on writing research reports on country conditions in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Venezuela and Cuba that can be useful for asylum cases.
The research will be published on the website for Stanford’s Migration & Asylum Lab. It is recommended to have had either Historical Materials or a methodology class in other major.
Consent of instructor is required so reach out to Professor Elliott Young (eyoung@lclark.edu) if interested. The course topic will vary in the future depending on instructor, but this version of it will count for the Latin American and Latino Studies Minor, and as a History elective.

This event is sponsored by the History, Ethnic Studies, Hispanic Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies and Sociology/Anthropology Departments

On October 6th, the Latin American and Latino Studies Department will be hosting its first Film Series event - a viewing of the film Machuca by Andrés Woods. 

Elliott Young has a new Op/Ed in The Washington Post entitled, “Locking up the mentally ill has a long history: The prospect of removing people from communities to be put in institutions has been a project of social control.”

Elliott Young is professor of history at Lewis & Clark College and the author of “Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System.”

Freddy Vilches, associate professor of Hispanic studies, composed a Latin American suite to help commemorate the 160th anniversary of Urubichá, Bolivia. In August, he traveled to the Bolivian town for a live performance, along with L&C orchestra director and Urubichá guest conductor Lance Inouye.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Magalí Rabasa has received the Arnold L. and Lois S. Graves Award. The grant will allow Rabasa to pursue research on feminist economies of knowledge in the Americas over a two-year period. This summer, she will travel to New York to conduct research in the Interference Archive, a space that catalogues the cultural production of social movements.