FEATURED EVENTS

10 am Ceremony @ Valle de la Paz Cementerio* in Hargill, Tejas

12 noon Symposium & Luncheon @ the University of Texas-Pan American Ballroom in Edinburg, Tejas

Keynote speaker: Dr. Aída Hurtado
Luis Leal Endowed Chair, Dept. of Chican@ Studies, UC Santa Barbara
"You Can Never Go Home Again, But You Can Always Return to the Valley: Gloria Anzaldúa's Geographies of the Soul"

3 pm Border Studies Archive, Exhibit and Open House @ the UTPA Library

For accommodations, please contact lperez16@utpa.edu

*Valle de la Paz Cemetery is located south of Hargill near the NW corner of F.M. 493 and Cemetery Road. Directions: From U.S. 281, take State Highway 490 East (heading east to Hargill, about 8.6 miles). Take a right (heading south) at the corner of S.H. 490 and F.M. 493, for 6/10 of a mile. Take a right at Cemetery Road. The entrance to Valle de la Paz is about 4/10 of a mile on the right (north) side.

UTPA's Mexican American Studies Program will hold its Spring 2012 Graduate Certificate Symposium and Graduation Celebration on Friday, May 4 from 5 - 9 pm in the Borderlands Room (Education Complex, 3rd floor). The schedule is as follows:

If interested in attending, please RSVP to mcmahonmr@utpa.edu   

“Exploring the Ambiguity of Multiple Identities": A Poetry Reading & Discussion with M. Miriam Herrera will be held on Wednesday, April 25 7:10 PM, CoAS 256

M. Miriam Herrera, a descendant of both Columbus and Native Americans, explores in poetry the ambiguity of multiple identities—Chicana, Spanish Crypto-Jew, Native American—and the disparate landscapes each inhabits. Miriam will read poetry that focuses on the way these identities are transformed when mythic borders—between peoples, ideas, religions, landscapes, science and spirit—jut up against one another and collide.  Miriam is the author of Kaddish for Columbus and a graduate of the Program for Writers (MA) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her poems have appeared in New Millennium Writings, Nimrod, Blue Mesa Review, Albatross, Earth's Daughters, and other journals. She is the Poetry and Arts editor for HaLapid: The Journal of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies.

The UTPA Library will be having three book discussions this spring. The first of these gatherings will be held on February 23rd at noon on the second floor of the library in the Schilling room. Dr. Shawn Thomson will be leading a discussion of True Grit by Charles Portis. The book is available for check out at the reserve desk on the third floor of the library. We encourage you to send your students. If you have any questions please contact Carlton T. Nelson at 956-665-2753 or email him at cnelson@utpa.edu.

PROJECTED COURSE ROTATIONS

All projected course rotation are subject to changes in faculty, budgets, and other institutional demands, and are therefore tentative.

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