Open Plaza 9/18/24 Open Plaza 9/18/24

“Making History Together”

An HTI Open Plaza virtual tour of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino

Open Plaza 9/4/24 Open Plaza 9/4/24

Insurrectionist Wisdoms

Dr. Neomi De Anda talks to 2023 HTI Book Prize winner Dr. Marlene M. Ferreras, whose work looks toward a North American indigenized pastoral theology

Open Plaza 9/4/24 Open Plaza 9/4/24

Toward a North American Indigenized Pastoral Theology

Dr. Marlene Mayra Ferreras presents an adaptation of her 2023 HTI Book Prize lecture

Open Plaza 8/14/24 Open Plaza 8/14/24

The Land, Indigenous Communities, and Their Church

Scholars Rebecca Mendoza and Anthony Trujillo discuss the work of the Terralogian and what it means to decolonize religious practices

Open Plaza 10/2/23 Open Plaza 10/2/23

GOOD DOCS

Selections from the award-winning collection of documentaries that do good in the world

Open Plaza 7/24/23 Open Plaza 7/24/23

Catholic and Indigenous

Theologian Jonathan Hamilton-Diabo, anthropologists Dr. Valentina Napolitano and Dr. Kristin Norget discuss reconciliation, Indigenous Peoples, and the Catholic Church

Open Plaza 7/17/23 Open Plaza 7/17/23

Will New Mexico Sing Their Spanish in Heaven?

Christian Silva on embodiment, prayer, and Spanish-nuevomexicano

Open Plaza 6/12/23 Open Plaza 6/12/23

Intervenxions

Selections from the online publication of The Latinx Project at NYU

Open Plaza 10/10/22 Open Plaza 10/10/22

Penitential Pilgrimage

Anthropologists Dr. Valentina Napolitano and Dr. Kristin Norget on Pope Francis, reconciliation, and the state

Open Plaza 9/12/22 Open Plaza 9/12/22

The Tip of the Pyramid

El Librotraficante Tony Diaz presents excerpts from his new book on Cultivating Community Cultural Capital

Open Plaza 7/26/22 Open Plaza 7/26/22

Thinking from Latin America

Stephen Di Trolio Coakley and Dr. Rafael Vizcaíno discuss liberation philosophy and anti-fetishism

Open Plaza 7/26/22 Open Plaza 7/26/22

Pensar desde Latinoamérica

Stephen Di Trolio Coakley y el Dr. Rafael Vizcaíno hablan sobre la filosofía de liberación y el anti-fetichismo

Open Plaza 7/11/22 Open Plaza 7/11/22

The Needle and the Thread

Victor Mancilla and Jim Nikas on their forthcoming film about the Jumano-Apache people and 17th-century Franciscan nun Sor María de Ágreda

Open Plaza 2/21/22 Open Plaza 2/21/22

Xitlali Zaragoza, Curandera

Reyes Ramírez presents a story excerpt from his debut collection The Book of Wanderers

Open Plaza 1/31/22 Open Plaza 1/31/22

Return to Padre

Journalist and anthropologist Cecilia Ballí tells a legal and personal history of South Texas

Open Plaza 11/1/21 Open Plaza 11/1/21

Calavera Images and José Guadalupe Posada

Jim Nikas digs up how the 19th-century Mexican graphic artist popularized the skull imagery associated with Día de Los Muertos

Open Plaza 8/16/21 Open Plaza 8/16/21

A Coyolxauhqui Imperative

César “CJ” Baldelomar ruminates on writing, memory, and death

Open Plaza 8/9/21 Open Plaza 8/9/21

Christianity, Empire and the Spirit

Dr. Neomi De Anda talks to Dr. Néstor Medina about his book on (re)configuring faith and the cultural

Open Plaza 6/28/21 Open Plaza 6/28/21

Symbols of Latinidades in the 2020 Election

Dr. Michael DeAnda decodes signs of the times

Open Plaza 4/12/21 Open Plaza 4/12/21

Embroidery at the Hearth of Faith

Poet Natalia Treviño cross-stitches the sacred and the ordinary