Michelle Téllez, co-editor of The Chicana Motherwork Anthology, talks to Indigenous actress Yalitza Aparicioto in a wide-ranging interview about her childhood, her experiences with discrimination, and more!
When: Thursday, October 29, 5:30 P.M. MST
This online Power Presents event, sponsored by the College of Social and Behavioral Science at the University of Arizona, is free. You can register here.
Téllez is an assistant professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies. Téllez has been committed to mapping projects of resistance, exploring shared human experiences, and advancing social justice for the last 25-years. As an interdisciplinary scholar, she writes about transnational community formations (and disruptions), Chicana mothering, and gendered migration. Her work has been published in book anthologies, academic journals, and online outlets.
Yalitza Aparicio is a Mexican actress who made her film debut as Cleo in Alfonso Cuarón’s 2018 drama Roma, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Aparicio, who holds a degree in early childhood education, is the first Indigenous woman and the second Mexican woman to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination. An educator and activist, Aparicio is the new UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Indigenous Peoples. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019.
November 5, 2020 at 5:00 P.M. MST
We are excited that the Amerind Foundation is hosting an online happy hour book club for University of Arizona Press author, Sara Sue Hoklotubbe!
Join author Sara Sue Hoklotubbe in a discussion of her most recent Sadie Walela mystery, Betrayal at the Buffalo Ranch. Margaret Coel, New York Times best-selling author, describes the book as “a compelling, tautly written, and hard-to-put-down mystery. Betrayal at the Buffalo Ranch takes you into the lives and cultures of modern-day Cherokees, all the while keeping you guessing and turning the pages until the very end.”
Join your friends and meet new ones in a Zoom book discussion group. Sara Sue will talk about her writing career and the Sadie Walela mystery series. Participants will then join smaller groups for a more intimate conversation about the book. Connect with new and old friends and learn more about contemporary Cherokee life and the land.
Please enjoy the book before joining in the discussion. We don’t want you to be surprised by any spoilers! You can purchase Sara Sue’s book through the University of Arizona Press or your local independent bookstore.
Sara Sue Hoklotubbe, Cherokee tribal citizen, is author of the award-winning Sadie Walela Mystery Series set within the Cherokee Nation in northeastern Oklahoma where she grew up. She is winner of the WILLA Literary Award, the New Mexico-Arizona Mystery Book of the Year Award, and the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Mystery of the Year Award.
Registration for this online program is free, but space is limited. Register here.
August 15, 2020 at 11:00 A.M., MST
Join Christine D. Beaule and John G. Douglass for a virtual talk on their new volume, The Global Spanish Empire.
In the fall of 2018, an Amerind Foundation seminar that was focused on Spanish colonialism resulted in our recent book The Global Spanish Empire: Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism, which drew together an international group of amazing scholars. Through their case studies, the project illuminated the role of place making in colonial societies and the pluralistic nature of these diverse groups of people brought together. This free zoom talk will highlight not only the key takeaways from the group study, but also offer important insight into the role of Iberian colonialism across the globe from the 1300s through the 1800s.
Christine D. Beaule is an associate professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Her work focuses on Spanish colonialism in both the Philippines and the central highland Andes.
John G. Douglass, vice president of research and standards at Statistical Research, Inc., and adjunct professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. His research has focused on Indigenous-Colonial interaction, religious performance, household archaeology, and community creation in the American Southwest, California, and Mesoamerica.
This online program is free, but space is limited.
To register visit: https://bit.ly/AmerindOnline081520
May 9, 2020 at 1:00 P.M. PDT
The Amerind Foundation is offering a free lecture with University of Arizona Press author Patricia Gilman via Zoom on May 9th. In this talk, Patricia Gilman will discuss a Native American culture of 1,000 years ago and their famous pottery paintings of people and animals. The people who lived in the Mimbres region of southwestern New Mexico painted their ceramic bowls with black designs on a white background, and those designs included realistic scenes of people, animals, and sometimes combinations of the two. Gilman will consider what these scenes might mean, drawing on the Hero Twins origin saga common in Mesoamerica, and she will touch upon the role of scarlet macaws from the rain forests of Mexico in Mimbres ritual and religion.
The online program is free, but space is limited. Click here to register.
Patricia Gilman is the co-author or co-editor of three University of Arizona Press books on the Mimbres region, including New Perspectives on Mimbres Archaeology, Mimbres Life and Society, and Mimbres Society.
May 16, 2020 at 1:00 P.M. PDT
The Amerind Foundation is hosting a free lecture via Zoom with University of Arizona Press author Paul Minnis on May 16. Because of the Amerind’s groundbreaking research, people know Paquimé in northwestern Chihuahua as one of the premier and influential ancient communities in the borderlands. It is hard to ignore its archaeological riches: massive buildings, hundreds of parrot burials, over a ton of shell artifacts, copper, large ball courts, ceremonial mounds, and magnificent polychrome pottery. But these are only a part of Paquimé’s story. We will explore equally important characteristics of this site and its neighbors.
This online program is free, but space is limited. Click here to register.
Paul Minnis is the co-author and co-editor of many University of Arizona Press books on Paquimé, including Discovering Paquimé, Ancient Paquimé and the Casas Grandes World, Casas Grandes and Its Hinterlands, and Neighbors of Casas Grandes. A new volume edited by Paul Minnis and Michael Whalen, The Prehispanic Ethnobotany of Paquimé and Its Neighbors, will be published in the fall.
The Hydrology of the Colorado River: What We Knew, When We Knew It, and How We Used It, with Eric Kuhn, co-author of Science Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River. Kuhn is the retired general manager of the Colorado River Water Conservation District.
When: Wednesday, February 12, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Where: Wrigley Hall, Room 481 on the ASU campus in Tempe, Arizona.
This event is with the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University:
Contrary to the conventional wisdom that the 1922 Colorado River Compact negotiators did the best they could with a limited gauge record, the data they used happened to be during an unusually wet period.
Authors Eric Kuhn and John Fleck argue that the politicians, states, and water agencies that shaped the development of the Colorado River had the science available to them to make better decisions, but political expedience prevailed and the science was ignored.
Today, the Colorado River is overused and facing a future where climate change is reducing the Colorado River flows.
As we shape the future of the river, will we learn from our past mistakes or will we continue to ignore inconvenient science?
Join us for Documenting Scholarship and Community, a discussion on research and community engagement with University of Arizona scholars and authors Roberto Rodriguez, Nolan Cabrera, Cristina D. Ramirez, and Michelle Téllez on Wednesday, Feb. 5.
Location: University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections, 1510 E. University Boulevard, 6 p.m.
The event, moderated by Maribel Alvarez, beloved folklorist and Associate Dean for Community Engagement in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, will be followed by light refreshments in the lobby. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., discussion starts at 6 p.m.
The event is free, but RSVP is encouraged. Please go here to register.
More about the scholars:
Moderator Maribel Alvarez, Associate Dean for Community Engagement in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, is an anthropologist, folklorist, writer, and curator. She holds the Jim Griffith Chair in Public Folklore at the Southwest Center and is an Associate Research Professor in the School of Anthropology. She founded, and until recently served as executive director, of the Southwest Folklife Alliance, an independent nonprofit affiliated with the University of Arizona. SFA produces the annual Tucson Meet Yourself Folklife Festival in addition to more than 20 other programs connecting heritage practices, artisanal economies, foodways, and traditional arts to community planning and neighborhood-based economic development throughout the region.
Roberto Cintli Rodríguez is an associate professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona. He writes for Truthout’s Public Intellectual Page and is a longtime award-winning journalist, columnist, and author. His most recent book is Yolqui, a Warrior Summoned from the Spirit World: Testimonios on Violence, published by the University of Arizona Press. His is also the author of Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother: Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas.
Michelle Téllez is an assistant professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies. She writes about transnational community formations (and disruptions), Chicana feminism, and gendered migration across multiple publishing formats, from academic journals and books to publicly-engaged scholarship and digital media. Dr. Téllez is on the editorial review board for Chicana/Latina Studies, the executive board of directors for the Southwest Folklife Alliance and serves on the board for the UA Consortium on Gender Based Violence. She is co-editor of The Chicana Motherwork Anthology, published by the University of Arizona Press.
Cristina D. Ramírez is currently an associate professor of English and the Director of the Rhetoric, Composition and Teaching of English or RCTE Program at the University of Arizona. She is also currently the National Secretary of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. She is a rhetorical recovery scholar, considering Mexican and Mexican American women writers, having published two books in this area; the first, Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875-1942 (University of Arizona Press, 2015) won the Winifred Bryan Horner National Outstanding Book Award from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. Her second book is Mestiza Rhetorics: An Anthology of Mexicana Activism in the Spanish Language Press, 1887-1922. Ramírez teaches graduate classes on archival research and feminist rhetorical practices.
Nolan Cabrera is a nationally recognized expert in the areas of racism/anti-racism on college campuses, Whiteness, and ethnic studies. He is currently an associate professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona, and was the only academic featured in the MTV documentary “White People.” His new book, White Guys on Campus, is a deep exploration of White male racism, and occasional anti-racism, on college campuses. Additionally, Cabrera was an expert witness in the Tucson Unified Mexican American Studies case (Arce v. Douglas), which is the highest-profile ethnic studies case in the country’s history. Dr. Cabrera is an award-winning scholar whose numerous publications have appeared in some of the most prestigious journals in the fields of education and racial studies. He is a former Director of a Boys & Girls Club in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is originally from McMinnville, Oregon.
Thursday, March 5, 2020—
7:00 p.m. at the Center for English as a Second Language, Room 103.
Free and open to all! A reception will follow the program.
Educated, restless, inquisitive, plucky, intrepid. These words describe women whose influence and impact in the American Southwest in the early 20th century have largely been left out of the pages of history. Natalie Curtis, Carol Stanley, Mary Cabot Wheelright, and Louisa Wade Wetherill, to name a few. In honor of Women’s History Month, author and historian Lesley Poling-Kempes will show historic photos and discuss the research journey that became her celebrated book, Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women & their Adventures in the American Southwest.
This is a presentation in the Arnold and Doris Roland Distinguished Speaker Series, made possible by the generosity of Dr. and Mrs. Roland. The reception is underwritten by the ASM Director’s Council.
The Center for English as a Second Language (CESL) is one building east of Arizona State Museum north, at 1100 E. James E. Rogers Way.
October 17, 2019—
Join Laura Harjo at the University of New Mexico to launch her new book, Spiral to the Stars!
Laura Harjo is a Mvskoke scholar, Indigenous methodologist, and associate professor in the Department of Community and Regional Planning at the University of New Mexico. Her research and teaching centers on Indigenous spatialities, community caretaking, Indigenous feminist community planning praxis, and community engaged knowledge production. Her recent project focuses on employing Mvskoke and Indigenous feminist epistemologies, and theories of Indigenous space, place, and mapping in a community praxis of futurity.
Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity poses questions about what community is, how to reclaim community, and how to embark on the process of envisioning what and where the community can be. Harjo demonstrates that Mvskoke communities have what they need to dream, imagine, speculate, and activate the wishes of ancestors, contemporary kin, and future relatives— all in a present temporality— which is Indigenous futurity. This book offers a critical and concrete map for community making that leverages Indigenous way-finding tools. Mvskoke narratives thread throughout the text, vividly demonstrating that theories come from lived and felt experiences. This is a must-have book for community organizers, radical pedagogists, and anyone wishing to empower and advocate for their community.
The book launch is located at the George Pearl Hall Auditorium in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The book talk begins at 2:00 p.m. followed by a reception and zine/ map making at 3:00 p.m.
The University of Arizona Press
