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OLLAS Anniversary Exhibition Opens

The exhibit celebrates 20 years of UNO’s Office of Latino/Latin American Studies.

  • published: 2023/08/29
  • contact: Amy Schindler - Archives and Special Collections
  • phone: 402.554.6046
  • email: acschindler@unomaha.edu
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UNO’s Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS) celebrates its 20th anniversary during the Fall 2023 semester. The exhibit in UNO Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections marking the anniversary highlights OLLAS’s support of UNO students, faculty, staff, and the metropolitan community through research, instruction, and community engagement.

The anniversary display features examples of OLLAS research, events, and learning opportunities for students and community members. OLLAS offerings featured in the display are publications, Cinemateca film series, Cumbre: Latino/Latin American Summit of the Great Plains, Charla series and other programs, course offerings, events for students, and administrative documents.

The exhibit is on display in UNO Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections, located on the first floor of Criss Library, and is open to the public during normal Library hours from September 6, 2023 through January 5, 2024. The exhibit was curated by Amy C. Schindler, Director of Archives and Special Collections. Join us for a reception to celebrate the anniversary and view the exhibit on Wednesday, October 18 from 3pm-5pm in the Archives and Special Collections.

Learn more about OLLAS events during the Fall 2023 semester. Archives and Special Collections will also provide pop-up displays of historical material at many OLLAS events throughout the semester.

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  • Voces of a Pandemic Oral History Collection are interviews collected by OLLAS Director Cristián Doña-Reveco, PhD, and Isabelle Beulaygue, PhD, in partnership with the University of Texas at Austin Voces Oral History Project and transferred to UNO Libraries in 2021. The project was funded in part by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, UNO’s Office of Research and Creative Activity, and UNO Libraries' Eugene S. and Sunny M. Thomas Fund for Innovation.The Voces of a Pandemic Oral History Collection is available online.
  • The personal collection of OLLAS Director Emerita Lourdes Gouveia, PhD, was donated to UNO Libraries in 2016 and is open for use in Archives and Special Collections. Selected material from the Lourdes Gouveia Papers will be displayed on the first floor of Criss Library in October 2023. Partial arrangement and description of the collection by Kassian Lemke-Elznic in 2022 was made possible by an American Library Association American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grants for Libraries.
  • The OLLAS Records are currently being arranged and described and are available to be used in Archives and Special Collections. Project staff Kassian Lemke-Elznic (2022) and student employees Diego Nájera, Amani Townsley, and Sean Summerfelt (ongoing) have contributed to the arrangement and description of the collection with funding provided by: American Library Association American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grants for Libraries; ORCA Work Study Research Grant; and Goldstein Center for Human Rights Faculty Research Grant.
  • OLLAS reports, policy briefs, and other publications are available from DigitalCommons@UNO. Publications and presentations by individual OLLAS faculty members are also online.
  • Students in Brett J. Kyle, Ph.D., Political Science and OLLAS faculty, presented posters about their research in Political Class 4280 using the Lourdes Gouveia Papers at the 2022 Student Research and Creative Activity Fair.

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