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Fourth Latino/Latin American Summit of the Great Plains
Human Mobility, the Promise of Development and Political Engagement
New! Call for Proposals and Instructions for Submissions
Cumbre 2010 is cosponsored by the Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS), the International Network on Migration and Development (INMD), the National Association of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC) and a variety of local and national organizations.
The conference is designated as one of the meetings that will be held in preparation for the 2010 IV Global Forum on Migration and Development (Mexico), and the IV World Social Forum on Migration (Ecuador).
Cumbre 2010 provides a forum for diverse, international and local publics to engage in critical dialogues that speak to this year’s theme. Our main objectives are to share knowledge and increase our collective capacity to inform policy and effect change. Our focus is on Latino, migrant and Latin American communities within this hemisphere and across the globe. We welcome comparative analyses with, and experiences from, other migrant, ethnic and racial groups within and outside the United States.
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Go to: Cumbre 2010 webpage
To be added to the OLLAS Cumbre 2010 mailing list contact:
unocumbre2010@mail.unomaha.edu or 402.554.3835
Blog of OLLAS Service Learning in Perú
UNO Group Travels to Peru for Education, Outreach
The Latin American Study Abroad Program of the Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) will send six undergraduate students, four community members and two faculty members to Lima, Peru, this month. The group is documenting their trip online at http://uno-peru-2009.blogspot.com/ .
The course, Latin America Study Abroad, was designed and is being taught by Professor Olga Celle, a native of Peru who obtained her doctorate at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Travel dates are May 15 through 31.
The program combines a two-week study abroad experience with distance education and service learning. The students, community members and faculty – Dr. Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, assistant director for OLLAS and Paul Sather, director of the UNO Service Learning Academy – will assist with the construction of a nursery. The facility will compliment the child care center that was built last year by a group of UNO students who participated in the first OLLAS study abroad trip to Peru.
As part of their study abroad experience, the students will regularly contribute stories, photos and videos to their blog. Graduate student Oscar Duran will coordinate the postings.
“This second trip to Peru very much builds on the first,” Benjamin-Alvarado said. “There is certainly academic rigor involved, but the service learning aspect helps connect our group to the community. The work being done is important”
While in Peru the students will also visit the Lima’s municipal government, the Peruvian government, Lima’s stock market, Peru’s elite institutions of higher learning, ecological preserves and the growing international shipping port.
"This course literally takes service learning at UNO to a global level," Sather said. "UNO is part of our community—locally, statewide and worldwide.”
For more information or to be placed on the mailing list for next year’s Latin American Study Abroad program call (402) 554-3835.
Latin American Study Abroad: Lima, Peru!
LLS 4950/8956-850
A Study Abroad, Service Learning, and
Distance Education Course
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Instructor: Olga Celle, Ph.D.
Spring 2009
(Jan 12- May 8)
Travel Dates: May 15- May 31, 2009
Click here: Peru Bulletin For up-to-date information about this opportunity!
Come to Peru this Summer 2009 and learn about:
-How globalization is changing this historic city, the environment, and international commerce
-How urban universities are free to all students and how they engage with the community
-How Peruvians are experimenting with new models of participatory democracy
-How rich indigenous cultures and languages co-exist with westernized Lima
How can I go to Peru?
UNO students must enroll in LLS 4950/8656 “Latin American Study Abroad: Peru” in the spring 2009 semester (January 12 – May 8). Students will earn three credit hours and obtain a Certificate in Latin American Service Learning upon completion of the distance education and travel abroad components.
Community members and others may either enroll in the same course (LLS4950/8656) or simply register with OLLAS to obtain a Certificate in Latin American Service Learning upon completion of the trip. Participants will be furnished with a packet of background readings in the spring.
Who teaches the course?
Peruvian sociologist, Dr. Olga Celle (Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz)
What kind of service learning will we engage in?
Students and community participants will have the unique opportunity to meet with residents and elected officials of one of Lima’s "pueblos jóvenes" (poor neighborhoods), San Juan de Miraflores, to learn about some of their challenges and organizational capacities. They will then help build a much needed nursery to complement the child care facility built last year by UNO students and community members of San Juan de Miraflores. The experience is described by former Peru trip participants as "transformative" and something that has "changed the way they view the world forever."
This program is supported by the Service Learning Academy and Distance Education.
"Reflections from a student participant" by D. Ariss Rogel
Music by: Alborada (White Buffalo and Sunguyman) and kaLIENTE (El Embrujo)
UNO program expands students' horizons
BY CINDY GONZALEZ
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
Published Tuesday June 24, 2008
DeSean Young knew enough about Latin American culture to order a taco or enchilada at a local Mexican restaurant. His political science classes at the University of Nebraska at Omaha had provided him plenty of academic background. But until a summer trip to the South American country of Peru - set up by the UNO Office of Latino/Latin American Studies, known as OLLAS - the realities of foreign policies didn't really sink in. Read more ...
La misma luna
(Under the Same Moon) 2007.
Director: Patricia Riggen.
Cinemateca Series
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August 29 - October 2, 2008
Ruth Sokolof Theatre
14th and Webster Streets
All films were in Spanish with English Subtitles.
Five weeks, ten films, and six different countries. Film Streams at the Ruth Sokolof Theater and the OLLAs proudly announced the lineup for their collaborative "Cinemateca" series (August 29 - October 2), the first in an ongoing partnership between the two groups. The "Cinemateca" series began Friday, August 29. A full schedule of the "Cinemateca" series could be found on the above flyer. Each week brought two new films to Film Streams' Ruth Skolof Theater, for a total of ten films in five weeks. The series featured weekly, post-show discussions led by OLLAS faculty members and special guests. The discussions took place each Tuesday evening at 6:30 pm and focused on a particular film in the series.
The product of two years of planning between Film Streams and OLLAS, the “Cinemateca” series was intended to showcase a variety of films representing different countries, time periods, directors, and genres, appealing to a broad and diverse audience.
Series generously sponsored by Sam Walker and Elizabeth Emlen Walker.
For more information call Lucy Garza Westbrook at 554-3835.
OLLAS (pronounced "oy-yas") The Office of Latino/Latin American Studies of the Great Plains at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), was established in the summer of 2003 as the result of ongoing efforts by the faculty, staff, and students of the UNO Chicano/Latino Studies (CLS) Program and a federal appropriation made possible by the U.S. Department of Education and the support of the Greater Omaha community. |
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New! OLLAS Policy Brief No. 2
"Un alto porcentaje de los niños inmigrantes de Nebraska carece de cobertura médica" OLLAS Breve Informe Político No. 1
OLLAS Policy Brief No. 1 (Click on the image below to view the Report and Policy Brief.)
OLLAS Report #5 (Click on the image below to view the Report and Policy Brief.)
Resumen en Español Presentación: "La contribución económica de los inmigrantes en Nebraska" ( 2 de noviembre del 2008) Nebraska’s Immigrant Population: Economic and Fiscal Impacts Researchers at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) have quantified—for the first time—the multi-billion dollar effects that immigrants have on the state’s economy in a new report titled “Nebraska’s Immigrant Population: Economic and Fiscal Impacts.” The report came out Oct. 15. Read more... To read the entire report click here or on the image above. For more information, call (402) 554-3835. |
OLLAS Featured in Holland Funded Publication, “UNO From A New Perspective.” OLLAS, “one of UNO’s newest programs and brightest stars,” was highlighted in the second publication in a series entitled “UNO From A New Perspective.” The purpose of this Holland Foundation funded series is to increase awareness of UNO and to draw attention to the university’s longstanding commitment to excellence. OLLAS can be found on the Community Engagement page of the second publication entitled Realize.
Second-Generation Latinos in Nebraska: A First Look Nebraska’s foreign-born population grew faster than that of any other Midwest state between 1990 and 2000. The state also experienced the second-highest increase in the number of children of immigrants in prekindergarten to fifth grade during the same period. This report sheds light on the second generation’s progress in the country’s heartland. Read more . . .
Immigration’s New Frontiers: In the midst of the fiery debate regarding undocumented immigration, assimilation returned to the front seat it occupied during the early decades of the twentieth century. The main purpose of this report is twofold: (1) to take stock of the policies and accompanying community responses of the State of Nebraska, and (2) to inform policies and programs designed to address challenges and opportunities posed by a growing immigrant population. Read more . . . |