La Cultura Cura
Resilience & Cultura Through Film
Professor, Adán Ávalos
Wed, Feb. 24th 6 - 7:15 pm
Adán Ávalos is an Assistant Professor of UNM Cinematic Arts & Associated Faculty of Chicana & Chicano Studies. As one of eleven children from a Mexican migrant labor family, Adán Ávalos has focused his artistic and scholarly career on paying tribute to the lives and experiences within migrant communities. Profesor Ávalos earned his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. His academic work focuses on exploitation films of the 1970s and 1980s — so-called naco movies — reclaiming part of Mexican film history often dismissed by conventional scholarly research. His creative work ranges from film, ceramics, photography, printmaking, and traditional fiber art.
The Chicanx movement in New Mexico
Professor, Felipe Gonzales
Wed, Mar. 24th 6 - 7:15 pm
Felipe Gonzales is a professor emeritus of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. He received his doctorate in sociology at the University of California Berkeley. As a historical sociologist, his primary interests have lain in the Nuevomexicano Hispanic group of New Mexico. His current research involves the politics of Nuevomexicano identity, 1880-1912
Caminos de la Danza Azteca
Natalia Toscano & Gustavo García
Wed, Apr. 21st 6 - 7:15 pm
Natalia M. Toscano was raised in Califa's Bay Area. Currently, she is a PhD student in the Department of Chicana/o Studies, her research explores the transnational organizing of Chicanx and Mexican communities organizing efforts against the continued development of neoliberal megaprojects and developments. Natalia is a member of Kalpuli Temachtia Quetzalcoatl and has continued to support Danza in New Mexico with the collective Quetzalkuetlachtli. The Danza community has a been critical space for Natalia's growth and accountability as a scholar.
Gustavo García was born and raised in Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. As a PhD student in Chicana/o Studies, his research interests explore the intersections of Chicanx and Indigenous studies to examine questions of coloniality/decoloniality, Indigenous migrations and Zapotec Studies. He is part of the danza group in the San Fernando Valley, Kalpuli Temachtia Quetzalcoatl. Additionally, he is a member of Quetzalkuetlachli, which is a student and community collective of danzantes in Albuquerque.