Alvarez Seminar
Understanding requires engagement. Each Spring semester, MAS organizes the Álvarez Seminar, a series of lectures, readings, performances, films or workshops that provide a profound examination of a critical theme in the MAS world. It is interdisciplinary by nature and the direction of the seminar rotates among MAS faculty from various departments. Álvarez Seminar events are incorporated into the courses of MAS faculty to maximize the engagement that students will have with the chosen theme.
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Spring 2026: Religion as Art in Archives
Spring 2025: Dancing Cultura: Ancestral Knowledge, Healing Spaces
Spring 2024: Shakespeare in the Borderlands Imaginary: Conversations with Playwrights
Spring 2023: Global Migration and Challenges at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Spring 2022: Green Matters: Environmental Literature, Art, and Activism in Latin America and the Latinx World
Spring 2021: Una Buena Educación: Building on Strengths of Latinx Youth
Spring 2020: The 2020 Elections and the Latinx Vote
Spring 2019: Latinx Leadership and Empowerment
Spring 2018: Latina Poetry Across the Americas
Spring 2017: Alvarez Seminar: Contemporary Spanish Culture: Encounters and Transitions
Spring 2016: Siqueiros Internacional
2015: The Sacred and the Mundane: Religious practice and belief in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Spring 2014: Chile canta al mundo/Chile Sings to the World: A program commemorating the Chilean struggle for democracy, justice, and human rights, 40 years after Allende (This was combined with the Lennox Series)
Spring 2013: Afrolatinas: Between Negritude and Reggaetón
Spring 2012: Democracy and the Left in Latin America
Spring 2011: San Antonio and The Mexican Revolution of 1910