Category Archives: Author / Scholar Visit

National Poetry Month Speaker Series

Author / Scholar Visit, Library Events, Mid-Valley Campus, Pecan Campus, Previous Events

 

The South Texas College Library and English Department would like to invite you to join us to attend the month of April’s speaker series. We will have award-winning poets Laurie Ann Guerrero and Rossy Lima here to speak to our students and community on their works. Please spread the word. Laurie Ann Guerrero Monday, April 18, 2016 Mid Valley Campus: G191 at 1:00 p.m.  Pecan Campus: Library’s Rainbow Room at 6:00 p.m.  Laurie Ann Guerrero is a Poet Laureate and award-winning author. She has written the collection A Crown for Gumecindo and A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying, which was the winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. In addition, Guerrero’s chapbook, Babies Under the Skin, won the Panhandler Publishing Award. Her poetry and critical works have also appeared in various journals and magazines.

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Rossy Lima Tuesday, April 19, 2016  Mid Valley Campus: G191 at 1:00 p.m.  Pecan Campus: Library’s Rainbow Room at 6:00 p.m. Rossy Lima is an international award-winning Mexican poet who has published in various journals, magazines, and anthologies. She was a featured poet in the Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum in 2015 and was invited to speak at TEDxMcallen about her experience as an immigrant writer in the U.S.

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For more information about these events, please contact Richard Coronado at (956) 447-6651 or via email at coronado@southtexascollege.edu

National Poetry Month Events at Starr Campus Library

Author / Scholar Visit, Library Events, Previous Events, Starr County Campus

Please join us Wednesday, April 6 at 10:00 am for a special book/author talk

Cantos del alma y del corazón—Poesía Original a collection of 50 Spanish poems will be presented by Dr. María Alma González Pérez. The poems express feelings and emotions from personal experience and provides the reader with a sensitive, yet realistic perspective of love, the family, and culture among other topics.

Dr. Pérez is a former bilingual education professor and director for UT PANAM Starr County campus, poet and writer. She writes Spanish poetry, children’s bilingual and local South Texas history books as well as teacher training material.

Her poetry book will be available for purchase at the event.

 

Please join us Thursday, April  14 at 1:00 pm for a special book/author talk

Gabriel H. Sanchez is a writer and poet from the Rio Grande Valley. He is the author of “The Fluid Chicano: Poems by Gabriel H. Sanchez,” by Slough Press, 2015. He is also co-author of “Nuevas Voces Poeticas: A Dialogue About New Chicana/o Identities,” published by Slough Press, 2015. Sanchez has publications in scientific journals, scholarly publications, several anthologies, and has served as a transcriptionist and translator for a Rio Grande Valley newspaper. He is a graduate of the University of Texas Pan American with a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling. Alongside writing, Gabriel is also a film maker, director, and an actor, having had starring roles in productions such as the play “Pat and Lyndon” by Archer Crosely;  the movie “Blood for the Sun” by Mar Motion Media; and the digital series “Who Shot Me,” by Fluid Chicano Films which he also writes and directs. Recently he has accepted a lead role in another film by MQV Media.  He writes a blog titled “Cross Sections” for The Raving Press website, www.thervaingpress.com and Chicano Blogabout on his website www.thefluidchicano.com.

“The Fluid Chicano” is a book of poetry that encompasses four different aspects of life: 1) A societal/historical poetry; 2) An intimate look into internal questions about love; 3) The exploration of love loss; 4) A philosophical view of identity as a non-static, fluid construct of the self by the self and by others.

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Women’s History Month Jovita Gonzalez Lecture Series

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Don’t forget about these great events celebrating Women’s History Month!

Cassandra Rincones, Associate Professor of History, joined LSC-Kingwood in 2013. Prior to that, she had taught at South Texas College for seven years. Rincones earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Texas A&M University in Kingsville. She holds a Master of Arts degree in U.S. History from the same institution. Rincones earned a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in May of 2015, specializing in U.S./Southwest Comparative Border studies. She has received several accolades including being awarded the Chancellor’s Dissertation Research Grant, Lone Star College and the Catarino and Evangelina Hernández Research Fellowship in Latino History.

Women’s History Month is celebrated in March in the United States every year, and it highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society.

Cassandra Rincones visit is part of the annual Jovita Gonzalez Women’s History Month Lecture sponsored by the South Texas College Library and the Center for Mexican American Studies.

For more information about these events please contact Angelica Maria Garcia at (956) 872-2277 or amgarcia@southtexascollege.edu

John Valadez, filmmaker, presents “The Head Of Joaquin Murrieta”

Author / Scholar Visit, Library Events, Pecan Campus, Previous Events

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We are thrilled to invite you to attend South Texas College’s annual Hispanic Heritage Month festivities.

Filmmaker John Valadez will visit South Texas College Sept. 22 at 6pm at the Pecan Campus Rainbow Room as part of the college’s Hispanic Heritage celebration. We will be screening the film “The Head of Joaquin Murietta” with a special introduction and followed by a Q&A with the director.

Director John Valadez has produced and directed award winning, nationally broadcast documentaries for the past 18 years. Valadez was also a writer, producer, and director of the six-hour PBS series “Latino Americans.”

For more information about these events please contact Esther Garcia at (956)872-6485 or egarcia10@southtexascollege.edu, or visit http://library.southtexascollege.edu/libraryevents/.

For a full listing of events: http://library.southtexascollege.edu/libraryevents

Felipe Hinojosa “Latino Mennonites: Civil Rights, Faith, and Evangelical Culture”

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We are thrilled to invite you to attend South Texas College’s annual Hispanic Heritage Month festivities.

On Sept. 30 at 6pm at the Pecan Campus Library Rainbow Room, historian and scholar, Dr. Felipe Hinojosa will give a presentation and receive the Américo Paredes Book Award for his work titled Latino Mennonites: Civil Rights, Faith, and Evangelical Culture.

Dr. Felipe Hinojosa is a professor of History at Texas A&M University focusing on Latina/o-Chicana/o and Religion.  He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships.

The Americo Paredes Book Award was established through the college’s Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) to highlight the best non-fiction work in the fields of Chicana/o or Latino/a studies.

 

For more information about these events please contact Esther Garcia at (956)872-6485 or egarcia10@southtexascollege.edu, or visit http://library.southtexascollege.edu/libraryevents/.

 

For a full listing of events: http://library.southtexascollege.edu/libraryevents

Antonia Castañeda “Writing Chicanas Into History”

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We are thrilled to invite you to attend South Texas College’s annual Hispanic Heritage Month festivities.

On Oct. 5, historian, scholar, and author Dr. Antonia Castañeda will give her presentation “Writing Chicanas Into History.”

  • Oct. 5 at 10:00 am at STC’s MidValley campus library in Weslaco
  • Oct. 5 at 6:00 pm at STC’s Pecan campus library in McAllen

Tejana born feminist historian Antonia Castañeda received her Ph.D. in U.S. History at Stanford University. Now retired, she taught in Chicana/o and Women’s Studies at UC Santa Barbara, and in the Departments of History at UT Austin and St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. Her research and teaching interests focus on gender, sexuality, and women of color in California and the Borderlands from the 16th century to the present.

Her current projects include a cultural history of Mestizas in colonial Alta California, a bilingual critical edition of 19th century Californian narratives, and a cultural history of Tejana farm workers.

She has previously held academic appointments at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Texas at Austin.

Following the lecture, there will be an opportunity to purchase her book Three Decades of Engendering History and to have her sign it.

The Americo Paredes Book Award was established through the college’s Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) to highlight the best non-fiction work in the fields of Chicana/o or Latino/a studies.

 

For more information about these events please contact Esther Garcia at (956)872-6485 or egarcia10@southtexascollege.edu, or visit http://library.southtexascollege.edu/libraryevents/.

 

For a full listing of events: http://library.southtexascollege.edu/libraryevents

Presentations: Stephanie Fielding “Reviving Heritage Through Language”

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Stephanie Fielding will be joining us on March 30 at the MidValley Library and on March 31 at the Pecan Library.  Ms. Fielding is a member of the Council of Elders for the Mohegan Tribe, and she is working on resurrecting the Mohegan language since the last speaker passed away in 1908.

For more information call 875-6485 or visit http://library.southtexascollege.edu/libraryevents/.

Presentation – “The War of the Rebellion: How the North Crushed the South”

Author / Scholar Visit, Library Events, Mid-Valley Campus, Previous Events

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Our Library will be featuring guest speaker Nathaniel Weber on Thursday, April 9 at 1:00pm.  The focus of his talk will be “The War of the Rebellion: How the North crushed the South, 1861-1865.  We hope you or your students can attend.  

For more information on these events please call (956) 447-1288 or visit http://library.southtexascollege.edu/libraryevents.

All events are free and open to the community.

Presentation: “Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling Across the Rio Grande”

Author / Scholar Visit, Library Events, Mid-Valley Campus, Pecan Campus, Previous Events, Starr County Campus

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Present-day smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border is a professional, often violent, criminal activity. However, it is only the latest chapter in a history of illicit business dealings that stretches back to 1848, when attempts by Mexico and the United States to tax commerce across the Rio Grande upset local trade and caused popular resentment.

This April, Dr. George Diaz will join the South Texas College Library to discuss the first history of smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border based on the research for his book Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling Across the Rio Grande.

Dr. Diaz will visit three of South Texas College’s campuses. On April 6th at 1:00 pm, he will visit the MidValley campus library, and at 6:00 pm, he will visit the Pecan campus library. To conclude his visit, Dr. Diaz will visit the Starr campus library on April 7th at 10:00 am. Following his discussion, there will be an opportunity to purchase his book and have the author sign it.

“The topic is very relevant to the news we hear every day, but it is fascinating to learn about how it happened historically for over 160 years,” said librarian Esther Garcia. “Dr. Diaz visit will help illuminate our border’s history.”

For more information on these events please contact Esther Garcia at (956) 872-6485 or egarcia10@southtexascollege.edu or visit http://library.southtexascollege.edu/libraryevents. All events are free and open to the community.