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Jake Taylor Jake learning some Tzotzil from children in Chiapas, Mexico PLU Class of 2009/2010 Spanish and Global Studies Double Major Studied away in Oaxaca, Mexico; Wang Grant in Ecuador Completed Peace Corps in Panama Now working on Masters in Latin American Studies in the Netherlands I’m currently enrolled in a MA Latin American studies program with public policy emphasis at Leiden University here in the Netherlands. It’s the only program in Europe outside of Spain offered entirely in
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& Government and Hispanic Studies:My tutorial was called “Latin American Development: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Challenges” and counted as POLS 491. During the term, I worked with a PhD candidate at the Department of International Development. We examined key challenges in development in Latin America. It integrated theoretical approaches to development that have been particularly influential in the Latin American context with an examination of empirical development and social justice issues
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verité dans l’art” suggest that twentieth-century poststructuralism and the study of narrative have roots in Romanticism —in particular, in what Morse Peckham has termed “negative romanticism.” Vigny thus deserves to be considered a forerunner of the narrativist philosophy of history which has come into being in recent years. Though expressed in terms foreign to the contemporary debate, Vigny’s preface anticipated some of its insights, earning denunciation by the intellectual forebears of those
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trying to sustain? We can’t afford to sustain an environmental narrative where my parents and others are ignored.” When Finney started collecting such previously ignored narratives for her dissertation (which, 10 years later, became her book), it helped her see how diversity, justice and sustainability come together—and it motivated her to tell those stories. Finney cited black environmentalist John Francis, who, after a 1970s oil spill, walked all across the U.S. and Latin America for 22 years
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watch an adaptation that does not work more than once. To be completely transparent, I prefer an adaptation that has more consistency between the novel and the film, but I’m open to experimentation. However, although this adaptation experiments with some promising strategies, the execution is inconsistent. For instance, I was struck by Anne Elliot’s (Dakota Johnson) narration and the use of contemporary dialogue. In this review I reflect on how these elements of breaking the fourth wall and
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Hispanic Literary Studies (4) Upper Division Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Studies 4-12 semester hours, selected from the following: HISP 321: Iberian Cultural Studies (4) HISP 322: Latin American Cultural Studies (4) LTST 341: Latino/a/x Experiences in the U.S. (4) LTST 342: U.S. Latino/a/x Literary and Cultural Studies (4) HISP 401: Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics (4) HISP 403: Advanced Spanish (Study Away) (4) HISP 423: Special Topics in Iberian Literatures & Cultural (4) HISP 433: Special
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marginalized groups on campus, my experience as a black individual is not celebrated or appreciated by the university on an institutional level. This is evident by the lack of black faculty members, programs and courses on African-American studies and the overall student demographic makeup. Why was/is the group needed? Bruce Driver ’78: BANTU was a chance for the black students to get together and to get to know each other. There weren’t that many black students on campus, more if you counted those who
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Gai-Hoai Nguyen Hoai at a UWCHR event held in support of the 6th annual International Restorative Justice Tribunal in El Salvador PLU Class of 2009 Hispanic Studies and Global Studies Double Major Studied away in Oaxaca, Mexico and Oviedo, Spain Current: Assistant Director for the Henry M. Jackson School’s Latin American & Caribbean Studies program and Assistant Director at the UW Center for Human Rights My name is Gai-Hoai T. Nguyen and I graduated from PLU in 2009 with a double major in
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, Pacific Lutheran University, 1998 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Greater Caribbean and Central American Studies Latinx Studies Spanish as a Heritage Language Selected Publications “Espectros y daños colaterales: memorias mediáticas de la Invasión norteamericana de Panamá.” A contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina (NC State University), Special Edition, The Performance of Archives: Re-imagining Memory and History in Latin America, Vol 12, No 1 Fall 2014: pages 30-53
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, Pacific Lutheran University, 1998 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Greater Caribbean and Central American Studies Latinx Studies Spanish as a Heritage Language Selected Publications “Espectros y daños colaterales: memorias mediáticas de la Invasión norteamericana de Panamá.” A contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina (NC State University), Special Edition, The Performance of Archives: Re-imagining Memory and History in Latin America, Vol 12, No 1 Fall 2014: pages 30-53
Area of Emphasis/Expertise
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