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Mass Protests and Constitutional Contestation in Latin America, March 24

Carmen Ilizarbe, Claudia Hess and Maria Victoria Crespo

Over the past year, mass protests have swept across Latin America. From Chile’s El Estadillo Social (the Social Outbreak) to Argentina’s Ni Una Menos (No One [Woman] Less), these massive social movements have challenged the political and legal establishment, leading to deep political and legal reforms. The Center for Law, […]

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March 2, 2021 at 6:15 pmEvents

Food Studies Intern Assists Local Food Producers in Growing Capacity

Margaret Gatonye, second from left, conducted several farm visits together with the Rural Action team to understand and learn from the Amish growers.

Margaret Gatonye, an African Studies master’s student from Kenya, has been working this semester as a Food Studies theme graduate intern with with Rural Action, a non-profit organization that aims at working together with local communities to revitalize Appalachian Ohio. With Dr. Theresa Moran, Food Studies Director, Gatonye is working […]

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April 9, 2019 at 4:05 pmNews

WGSS Welcomes Alumni Home to OHIO at Reunion and Roundtables

WGSS Welcomes Alumni Home to OHIO at Reunion and Roundtables

by Kristin Distel At Homecoming 2018, the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program welcomed home several of the program’s alumni as part of the fourth annual Reunion and Roundtables event. Reunion and Roundtables is, WGSS director Dr. Cindy Anderson states, the “brainchild of Dr. Julie White” and made possible by […]

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January 9, 2019 at 11:57 amAlumni News

Fall 2018 | Global Solidarities Lecture Series

Professor Noura Erakat

This fall Ohio University hosts the Global Solidarities Lecture Series—four lectures that highlight various social justice struggles, with emphasis on how activists working in and scholars writing about a particular context learn from and teach those from another context. All events are free and open to the public. The Global […]

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October 21, 2018 at 3:15 pmAnnouncements

Critically Acclaimed Egyptian Film and Director Come to Athens, Sept. 20

Critically Acclaimed Egyptian Film and Director Come to Athens, Sept. 20

  Students, faculty, and staff at Ohio University as well as the broader Athens community are invited to a free and public screening of the critically acclaimed film In the Last Days of the City, the multi-award winning feature film debut of director Tamer El Said. The filmmaker also will […]

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September 1, 2018 at 7:15 pmEvents

Ecuadorian Delegation Spends a Day with Food Studies

Delegates from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in the high tunnel.

Food Studies theme students and faculty hosted a visiting delegation from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador on Friday, April 6. The group, including five different deans of Ohio University, had a week-long visit to Athens hosted through the Center for International Studies. Food Studies spent the day giving the […]

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April 10, 2018 at 10:57 amNews

War and Peace | Drugs and Criminal Governance in Latin America, Nov. 1

Eduardo Moncada

The War and Peace theme, Center for Law, Justice and Culture, and Latin American Studies program present Dr. Eduardo Moncada on “Drugs and Criminal Governance in Latin America” on Nov. 1 at 6 p.m. at Grover W123. Moncada is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Barnard College […]

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November 1, 2017 at 11:59 pmEvents