About the Series:
The annual Schomburg-Moreno lecture, begun by the Latin American Studies
Program at Mount Holyoke College in 1995, features a distinguished speaker
in Latin American, Caribbean, or Latino(a) Studies. The series is named
in honor of two Latin Americans whose lives developed at the intersections
of all three communities and whose contributions to these communities,
and to the larger U.S. society, are far too often ignored.
Arthur Alfonso Schomburg came to the U.S. from Puerto Rico in 1891 and
is best known as the Curator of the New York Public Library, a founder
of the American Negro Academy in 1911, and founder of the Harlem-based
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Luisa Moreno was born in
Guatemala and emigrated to the U.S. from Mexico in 1928. A life-long labor
organizer and activist, she was co-founder of the Congress of Spanish-Speaking
Peoples in New Mexico in 1938 and later served as Vice-President of the
California CIO and the cannery workers' union.
Upcoming Lecture:
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Felix M. Padilla, Visiting Professor of American Studies, Yale University
Founder of "Libros, Encouraging Cultural Literacy"
"Cultural Literacy For Children: Implications For Educators, Parents,
College Students, and Other Mentors"
November 9, 2000
Past Lectures:
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Stuart B. Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor
of History
Yale University
"Hispanic Doubts and American Dreams: The Roots
of Toleration in Early Modern Latin America"
March 29, 1999
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Sonia Alvarez, Associate Professor of Politics
University of California at Santa Cruz
"Advocating Feminism: The Latin American Feminist
NGO 'Boom'"
March 2, 1998
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Jonathan Fox, Associate Professor of Latin American
and Latino Studies
University of California at Santa Cruz
"How Does Civil Society Thicken? Lessons from
Rural Mexico"
February 20, 1997
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Arturo Madrid, Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison
Distinguished Professor of the Humanities
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
"Juntos y Revueltos: The U.S. Latino Population
at the End of the Twentieth Century"
April 4, 1996
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Edna Acosta-Belén, Distinguished Service
Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Women's Studies
University at Albany, SUNY
"Revisiting the Concept of Nuestra América
in Latino(a) and Latin American Studies"
April 10, 1995