The Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) is pleased to host a research colloquium featuring two CLLAS-funded scholars whose work examines how institutions shape Latiné experiences of equity, belonging, and representation across educational and workplace settings.

• Janette Avelar is a PhD candidate in Quantitative Research Methods in Education at the UO. Her research examines how innovative K–12 schools serving predominantly Latinx student populations design learning environments that center equity, cultural identity, and student belonging, particularly in the context of growing political pressures shaping educational policy and practice.
• Dr. Chanel Meyers is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the UO whose research explores how Latiné individuals evaluate corporate workplaces. Her work investigates how diversity signals, demographic representation, and organizational messaging influence perceptions of belonging, trust, and interest in potential workplaces.

Together, these scholars explore how institutional design choices in schools and organizations shape Latiné experiences of inclusion, representation, and opportunity. Please join us for this engaging discussion on equity across educational and workplace environments.

This event is presented by the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) with support from UO’s Division of Equity and Inclusion.

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From Jan. 21 and continuing until March 18, the Northwest Native American Language Resource Center (NW-NALRC) will be holding weekly consultation and assistance times. 

From 2-3pm PST we will be providing consultation and assistance with Community Projects and Planning. 

From 3-4pm PST we will be providing consultation and assistance for Supporting Language Teaching and Learning. 

To join, please fill out this short form https://forms.office.com/r/D2pg3wErfj.

If you are in need of assistance, or if you have any questions, please contact nalrc@uoregon.edu. 

The Department Geography Colloquium Series Presents:

Justin S. Mankin, Associate Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College, "Documenting and Projecting the Human Costs of Climate Change"

"How does climate change affect people and the things they value? Drawing on examples from violent conflict, economic growth, and water resources, I highlight my group’s research to inform society’s management of climate risks, with implications for everything from drought monitoring to climate liability. Our work looks retrospectively, documenting and attributing the impacts that have already unfolded, and prospectively, helping to anticipate the ones to come. Across all of this work, I discuss our efforts to (1) meaningfully connect geophysical changes with human consequences, (2) quantify, attribute, and constrain uncertainty, especially given structural data inequities, and (3) inform model design and analysis choices to ensure that scientific answers about our present and future are sound, transparent, reproducible, useful, and just. Collectively, my research and that of my group demonstrates the importance of science that spans both fundamental and applied questions of climate impacts to inform adaptations and prepare society for a warmer world."

Mankin is an associate professor of geography at Dartmouth where he directs the Climate Modeling and Impacts Group. His previous career was as an intelligence officer working in South Asia and the Middle East. He holds degrees from Columbia (BA, MPA), the London School of Economics (MSc), and Stanford (PhD). He completed his training at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies as an Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellow.   

Comparative Literature graduate students Mus'ab Abdul-Salam, Mariam Nadeem and Untara Rayeesa will present on their research in progress.

Presented by the Comparative Literature Department and the Comparative Literature Graduate Student Association.