Schedule of Events
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| Thursday, September 23, 2021 | 5:30-7 PM | Seminar One Introductions, Goals, and Requirements of the Program Presenters: Dr. Jerry Gonzalez and Mexico Center Staff |
| Thursday, September 30, 2021 | 5:30-7 PM | Seminar Two Intro to Chicanx Historical Pedagogies Presenter: Dr. Jerry Gonzalez |
| October | Varied | Individual Meetings with Dr. Gonzalez Each fellow will schedule a 30-minute block to talk to Dr. Gonzalez individually for introductions and discussion of the year ahead. Deadline: October 31, 2021 |
| Thursday, October 7, 2021 | Seminar Three The Importance of Mentorship in Academia Presenters: Previous Mellon Humanities Pathways Program Fellows |
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| Wednesday, October 20, 2021 | 5:30-7 PM | Seminar Four Intro to Graduate School and the Academy Presenters: Andrés Borunda and Rebecca Gonzalez |
| Wednesday, October 27, 2021 | 5:30-7 PM | Visiting Scholar: Philis Barragán-Goetz, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History, TAMUSA Mexican American History Texas History Women’s History U.S. Social & Cultural History Community Liaison to the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum Author of Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas (2020) |
| Thursday, November 4, 2021 | 5:30-7 PM | Seminar Five The Elevator Speech – Academic Communication Presenters: TBD |
| Thursday, November 11, 2021 | 5:30-7 PM | Democratizing Racial Justice, A Conversation with Dr. Jose Villagran and Dr. Carolina Arango-Vargas Democratizing Racial Justice seeks to transform the role of higher education, through changing and adapting Ethnic Studies and Humanities, in particular. The DRJ is combating the erasure of people of color and their histories, and reimagining a society in which people are equally valued. |
| Thursday, November 18, 2021 | 5:30-7 PM | Seminar Six JPL Database Workshop & Special Collections Archive Tour Objective: Students learn how to access library resources and about UTSA’s archives. Presenting: TBD |
Spring 2022
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January 27, 2022 Thursday Time: 3:00 pm - 5 pm Via Zoom |
Spring Semester Launch Seminar Seven JPL Database Workshop & Objective: Students learn how to access library resources Presenting: Shari Salisbury |
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Month of February 2022 |
Individual Meetings Mellon Fellows Cohort 6 meet with Dr. Gonzalez. |
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February 10, 2022 Thursday Time: 3:00 pm – 5 pm JPL Assembly Room on the JPL 4th floor |
Seminar Eight Special Collections Archive Tour Objective: Students will learn about UTSA archives Presenting: Stephanie Noell |
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February 10, 2022 Thursday Time: 5:00 pm UTSA Sombrilla Plaza |
Join the Mellon Fellows and Mexico Center staff for a coffee break after the JPL tour. |
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February 23, 2022 Thursday Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Via Zoom |
Guest Lecture Lorena Oropeza, PhD Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic Diversity Professor, History Department University of California, Davis and author of The King of Adobe, Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement Dr. Lorena Oropeza discusses her new book King of Adobe, Reies Lopez Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement. |
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March 1, 2022 Tuesday Time: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Via Zoom |
Guest Lecture Gene Morales, PhD Lecturer of History Department of Communication, History, and Philosophy Texas A&M University-San Antonio Dr. Gene Morales discusses Abajo con HemisFair: A Local History of Urban Renewal for the 1968 World’s Fair. Register here: http://mxcenter.utsa.edu/rsvp |
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April 12, 2022 Tuesday Time: 4:00 pm- 5:30 pm Via Zoom |
Guest Lecture Sanctuaryscapes in the North American Southwest and Anthropolocura as Homeplace Ethnography Aimee Villarreal, PhD., Associate Professor and Program Head, Comparative Mexican American Studies Director, Center for Mexican American Studies and Research Our Lady of the Lake University
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Summer Workshop
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Summer Visits and Research Workshop 2022 May 16-24
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Summer Research Workshop Refusing to Forget Student Poster Conference Wednesday, May 17: University of Texas- Austin Sunday, May 22-24: University of Houston, Rice University |
Past Events
UTSA Mexico Center Mellon Humanities Pathways Program Presents
Romeo Gúzman, author of East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, Co-authored with C. Fragoza, A. Cummings, and R. Reft.
Thursday, July 29, 2021 from 4:00 to 5:00pm
Join us for a virtual Zoom discussion.
For more information, please email andres.borunda@utsa.edu or sophia.ortiz@utsa.edu
What Did the Indigenous Think of Malintzin? Aztec Commentaries on the Most Famous Woman of their Time
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (central time)
with Dr. Camilla Townsend (Author of Malintzin’s Choices)
This event is co-hosted by The Mexico Center and the UTSA Department of History
Mellon Humanities Pathways Program Cohort 5 Spring Break (Virtual) Workshop
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
March 8 – 11, 2021
Schoolboi: A Queer Educational Journey from La Habra to Limerick
Thursday, February 4, 2021
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm (central time)
w/ Dr. Melissa Mora Hidalgo (Mozlandia: Morrissey Fans in the Borderlands)
This event is presented by the Mellon Humanities Pathways Program, in collaboration with the UTSA Mexico Center, the Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the UTSA Women’s Studies Institute.
Community College Faculty Pathways
Thursday, October 29, 2020
4:30 pm – 6:30 pm (central time)
w/ Drs. Sandra D. Garza (Assistant Professor and Coordinator, Mexican American Studies Program, Northwest Vista College); Lisa Y. Ramos (History Co-Coordinator & Mexican American Studies (MAS) Coordinator, San Antonio College); and Gilbert Estrada (Associate Professor of Latin America and United States History, Long Beach City College)
Bad Mexicans: A Conversation with Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernández
Thursday, August 20, 2020
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm (central time)
w/ Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernández (City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles 1771-1965)
Metropolitan Context and Immigrant Rights Experiences: DACA Awareness and Support in Houston
Thursday, July 16, 2020
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm (central time)
w/ Dr. Shannon Gleeson (Accountability Across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America)
Atomik Postcards: Writing, Resistance, and Place
Thursday, June 25, 2020
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm (central time)
w/ Sesshu Foster (City Terrace: Field Manual; Atomik Aztex; Elabatl)
[CANCELLED] Book Presentation and Panel Discussion of Double Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core
Friday, March 6, 2020
10:30 am (central time)
Erika Pani: “Those Ungrateful Sons of Ours: A Mexico City View of the Texas Revolution” and “In the Laboratory of Politics: The Confederate States of America and Mexico’s Second Empire”
Tuesday, March 2, 2020
“Those Ungrateful Sons of Ours: A Mexico City View of the Texas Revolution”
2:00 pm (central time)
Main Campus, Ballroom 1 – HSU 1.106
“In the Laboratory of Politics: The Confederate States of America and Mexico’s Second Empire”
6:30 pm (central time)
Downtown Campus: El Paseo Conference Rm. A
Dr. Roberto “Cintli” Rodriguez
Thursday, February 27, 2020
A War Against Poor People: Dirty War, Narcotics, and the Cold War Roots of Mexico’s Contemporary Drug Violence
Thursday, January 30, 2020
UTSA SU 2.01.26 Pecan Room
2:00 pm (central time)
Alexander Aviña (Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside)
Latinx Civil Rights Discussion with The Esperanza Center
Saturday, November 23, 2019
The Esperanza Center
3:00 pm to 6:00 pm (central time)
Guest Speaker: Graciela Sanchez
Crafting A Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia
Monday, November 18, 2019
UTSA Harris Room, HSU 2.212
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm (central time)
Dr. Lina del Castillo
Academy Fellows Speaker Series: The Role of Mexican & U.S. Universities: Societal Fatigue & Frustration in an Era of Change
Thursday, November 14, 2019
UTSA Downtown Campus, La Villita Room, Durango Bldg. Room 1.116
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm (central time)
Dr. Sergio Alcocer
Ficciones Subversivas: Una Presentación de la Dra. Lorena Ventura
Thursday, October 24, 2019
UTSA, HM 3.01.28
7:00 pm (central time)
Lorena Ventura es Doctora en Letras por la UNAM y autora de libros de teoria literaria: La enunciación en el ensayo (2009) y de poesía: Marcas de viaje (2014). En esta presentación se analizarán estrategias de representación narrativa empleadas en la literatura, el cine y el cómic que permiten cuestionar la relación entre la ficción y la realidad, tema de su último libro: Metaléptica: Lógica y sentido en la ficción (UNAM, 2019).
This event was hosted by the UTSA Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
Presentación del libro Marcas de Viaje de Lorena Ventura
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Auditorio de la UNAM San Antonio
7:00 pm (central time)
Participan:
Isaura Contreras
Grecia Cuevas
Lorena Ventura
This event was co-hosted by the UTSA Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and UNAM-San Antonio.
The Central Maya Highlands of Guatemala: Kaminaljuyu, New Research and Results
Friday, October 11, 2019
UTSA Main Campus, BSE 2.102
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm (central time)
Dr. Barbara Arroyo (Director of the Kaminaljuyu Archaeological Project and a Research Associate at the Museo Popol Vuh, Universidad Francisco Marroquín)
This event was presented by the UTSA Department of Anthropology.
A Conversation with Elsa Florez Almaraz
Friday, October 25, 2019
Pecan Room SU 2.01.26
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm (central time)
This event is sponsored by the UTSA Mellon Humanities Pathways Program, the UTSA Department of History, and the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center.
