National Hispanic Heritage Month runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, and Chief Diversity Officer and KSOE Counseling Professor Gloria Sosa offers her thoughts about Voz, Fuerza, y Perservar: Las Historias de Nuestra Lucha (Voice, Strength, and Perseverance: The Stories of Our Fight), the College’s first formal, monthlong Latinx heritage celebration. We encourage the campus community to support the inclusive effort by attending some of the many academic-related programs that honor the cultures of the Latinx diaspora. Events include the Museum of Art’s Graphicanos exhibition; a series of Mission and Ministry Center activities; the annual Celebrating Latinas luncheon through the Center for Women and Gender Equity, Hermanas Unidas, and the Gender Justice League; featured guest speakers, including noted alumna and workers’ rights activist Maria Elena Durazo ’75, presented through the History Department and Institute for Latino and Latin American Studies (ILaLS); and many other events. Check out the impressive schedule.
Library Display of Hispanic and Latinx books
Through Sept. 29 | Library
Latin American Independence Days
6–7:30 p.m. | Mission and Ministry Center
Celebrate Latin American Independence Days with food, music, trivia games, and prizes.
Fall 2018 Exhibition Opening
4–7 p.m. | Saint Mary's College Museum of Art
Opening exhibition of Graphicanos: Contemporary Latino Prints from the Serie Project organized by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. Opening night exhibition includes dance and musical performances. The museum is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Graphicanos runs September 20 through December 16, 2018
Radical Acts of Love
8:00 p.m. | Saint Mary's College Museum of Art
Performance by the CatherineMarie Davalos Company.
Margaret Salazar-Porzio, PhD, Talk and Reception
4:45 p.m. | GAL 201
Margaret Salazar-Porzio, PhD, will present "Creating Communities of Courage: The Challenges of Public History at the Smithsonian." Salazar-Porzio is a curator of Latina/o History and Culture in the Division of Home and Community Life at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. This talk will launch the History Department's NEH Grant–funded programming for "Partner in Public History." A reception will follow at Saint Mary's Museum of Art, where Graphicanos: Contemporary Latino Prints From the Serie Project will be open to view.
Celebrating Latinas Luncheon
1 p.m. | Lafayette Room, Soda Center
This annual student-led event is a collaboration between the Center for Women and Gender Equity (CWGE), Hermanas Unidas, and members of the Gender Justice League. There will be space for story sharing, learning, for voices to be heard, along with a delicious catered lunch. The event is free and open to everyone. Please RSVP today: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrating-latinas-tickets-49968062821.
Sor Juana Replies
1 p.m. | Lafayette Room, Soda Center
Sor Juana was a star in Baroque New Spain (now Mexico)—a brilliant poet-playwright-scholar-nun with friends in high places. When the Church pressured her to renounce the writing life, Sor Juana answered her critics in La Respuesta, an unapologetic defense of women’s freedom with intellect and conscience. Hosted by Seminar, with Professors Álvaro Ramirez, María Luisa Ruiz, and Frances Sweeney.
Oscar Romero Movie Night
6 p.m. | Mission & Ministry Center Lounge
Bilingual Sunday Mass
8 p.m. | Chapel
Celebration of the canonization of Archbishop Oscar Romero and Pope Paul VI. Hospitality after Mass.
Speaker: Harold Pimental, PhD
1 p.m. | Soda Activity Center–Claeys Lounge
Harold Pimentel, PhD (Stanford University–HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow), will talk about his work on the computational methods he developed to analyze a vast set of RNAs in healthy and cancerous tissues to discover whether lingering introns play a part in cancer. The talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session focused on Pimentel’s personal journey to becoming a scientist.
Book Presentation: David Ayon and María Elena Durazo
6 p.m. | GAL 201
David Ayon and María Elena Durazo talk about Power Shift: How Latinos in California Transformed Politics in America (2018). Ayon works at the think tank Latino Decisions and teaches in the Politics Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Durazo '75 is the general vice president of UNITE HERE and vice chair of the Democratic National Committee of the Democratic Party. She is running for California State Senate this year in District 24, Los Angeles.
End of Year Reception
4:30 p.m. | TBD
David Ayon and María Elena Durazo talk about Power Shift: How Latinos in California Transformed Politics in America, (2018). Ayon works at the think tank Latino Decisions and teaches in the Politics department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Durazo '75 is the general vice president of UNITE HERE and vice chair of the Democratic National Committee of the Democratic Party. She is running for California State Senate this year in District 24, Los Angeles.
Monument Impact: Know Your Rights
We invite interested students, staff and community members to this community-observer presentation/training (regarding ICE interactions in the community) on campus. Monument Impact has provided this training a host of times at local colleges and other community- and faith-based organizations.
SoExplorando Fronteras: Graphicanos Docent Tours
1:15–2:45 p.m. | SMC Museum of Art
Join Chicanx Studies scholar Jessie Turner and Museum Collections Manager John Schneider for an illuminating tour of Graphicanos. The exhibition features 45 silkscreen prints marking the achievements of the Chicano Art Movement in the 1980s. Advance registration recommended, as each tour is capped at 20.
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 5–5:45 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 14, 1:15–2 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 16, 1:15–2 p.m.
SoExplorando Fronteras: Graphicanos Docent Tours
5:30–6:15 p.m. & 7–7:45 p.m. | SMC Museum of Art
Three Bay Area Latinx poets share a spoken-word performance of selections from Borderlands/La Frontera, a seminal work of Chicana feminism. Audiences are invited to flow through the museum galleries, enjoying Gloria Anzaldúa’s powerful words against the backdrop of the exhibition, Graphicanos. With guest poet-performers Leticia Hernández-Linares, MK Chavez, and Naomi Quiñonez.