Past Alvarez Winners
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Alvarez Seminar 2019: Latinx Leadership and Empowerment
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"Defining Latinx Leadership in these Turbulent Times," Olga Talamante, Director Emeritus Chicana/Latina Foundation
"Latinx Resistance & Survival in Higher Education," Lupe Gallegos Díaz, UC Berkeley, Director of ChicanzLatinx Academic Student Development Center
"Latinx Leadership for the 21st Century," Juan Sepulveda J.D., Lillian Radford Visiting Professor of Practice, Education, Trinity University
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Alvarez Seminar 2017: Contemporary Spanish Culture: Encounters and Transitions
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"Invisible Immigrants: Spanish Immigrants in the United States." James Fernández, Professor, New York University
"Body and Space in Pedro Almodóvar’s La pielo que habito." Maria DiFrancesco, Assoc. Professor, Ithaca College
"The Aesthetics of Garbage in Democratic Spain." Samuel Amago, Professor, Univ. of North Carolina
"The Women Film Pioneers of Spain." Barbara Zecchi, Professor, Univ. of Massachusetts - Amherst
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Spring 2015: The Sacred and the Mundane: Religious practice and belief in the US-Mexico Borderlands
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The Bones of Padre Kino: Missionaries and Memorialization in the Borderlands. Brandon Bayne, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
La Economía de Dios: Almavisión and the Latino/a Prosperity Gospel Movement. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh, Associate Professor of Church history & Latino/a Church studies at Azusa Pacific University
The Reliable Reapress: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint. R. Andrew Chesnut, Professor of Religious Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University - School of World Studies
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Spring 2013: Afrolatinas: Between Negritude and Reggaetón
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Returning Postcard to Sender: Living, Researching and Writing Song of the Water Saints. Lecture by Nelly Rosario, novelist and creative writing instructor, Texas State University in San Marcos
De pura cepa: Writing My Way into Being. Lecture by Maria Teresa "Mariposa" Fernandez, poet and activist
Black, Latina, Both: Claiming and Making History. Lecture by Miriam Jimenez and Juan Fores
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Spring 2011: San Antonio and The Mexican Revolution of 1910
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The Music of the Mexican Revolution. Lecture/Concert with Speaker: Gilberto Hinojosa, Our Lady of the Lake University; Performer: Azul Barrientos, Performer
The Films of the Mexican Revolution. Lecture/Film Showings with Speaker: Zuzana Pick, Carlton University, Ottawa
An Evening of Readings concerning the Mexican Revolution. Discussion and Musical Presentation with Speakers: Maria Antonietta Berriozabal; Henry Cisneros; Sandra Cisneros; Gabriela Franco; John Phillip Santos; and José Antonio Vela. Francisco González: Chicano Musician
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Alvarez Seminar 2018: Latina Poetry Across the Americas
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"In Between Worlds: Poetry of Reclamation," Denice Frohman, Poet
"Canción Cabaret," Amalia Ortiz, San Antonio Poet
"Virgin Territory: Latinidad, Femininity & Artistic Practice", Analicia Sotelo, local Poet, Trinity alum
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Alvarez Seminar 2016: Siqueiros Internacional
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Animating Internationalism: David Alfaro Siqueiros and the Mexican Electricians' Syndicate. Jennifer Jolly, Ithaca College
Material Dialectics in Mexican Muralism: Orozco, Siqueiros, and Rivera. Mary Coffey, Dartmouth College
Siqueiros and Internationalism in the 1960s. Luis Castañeda, Syracuse University
Towards a More Politically Effective Art: Siqueiros and the 'Plastic Integration' Movement. Christopher Fulton, University of Louisville
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Spring 2014: Chile canta al mundo/Chile Sings to the World: A program commemorating the Chilean struggle for democracy, justice, and human rights, 40 years after Allende
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Democracy and Dictatorship in Chile. Lecture by Steve J. Stern, historian, University of Wisconsin, Madison
La nueva canción chilena: An appraisal. Lecture by Juan Pablo González, musicologist, Universidad Alberto Hurtado
In Praise of Violeta y Víctor:. Songs and stories from José Seves and Elizabeth Morris
Community concert. José Seves and Elizabeth Morris, Esperanza Center for Peace and Justice
Resistencia y solidaridad: Chicanos and Chilenos in California. Songs and stories from Antonia Castañeda , Agustín Lira, Patricia Wells, and Lichi Fuentes
Exhibition opening, Pablo Neruda’s Canto general with illustrations by David Siqueiros
Community concert. Agustín Lira, Patricia Wells, and Lichi Fuentes, Esperanza Center for Peace and Justice
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Spring 2012: Democracy and the Left in Latin America
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Feminism and the New Left in Ecuador: From Neoliberalism to the Buen Vivir. Lecture by Amy Lind, Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati
South of the Border (2010). Film by Oliver Stone with an introduction and discussion led by Francisco Durand, University of Texas at San Antonio
Evo Morales and the Rise of the Left in Bolivia. Lecture by Raúl l. Madrid, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Semi-Authoritarianism and "Participatory Cancer" in Venezuela. Lecture by Javier Corrales, Professor, Amherst College