Open Plaza 1/8/25 Open Plaza 1/8/25

Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence

Homero Aridjis, President Emeritus of PEN International, presents seven poems. Poet-translator and Griffin Poetry Prize winner George McWhirter brings Homero Aridjis to English

Open Plaza 12/18/24 Open Plaza 12/18/24

Faith and Flight: A Trip to the Border

Miriam Guadalupe Juárez, a doctoral candidate at NYU, presents the first dispatch of “Faith and Flight: Latinx Migration in the Art of Belief,” a Historias project of The Clemente Center

Open Plaza 11/20/24 Open Plaza 11/20/24

La Iglesia Que Migra

Father Brian Strassburger and Father Flavio Bravo discuss the Jesuits' efforts on behalf of migrants in the Rio Grande Valley with artist and anthropologist Cinthya Santos Briones

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 8/28/24 Open Plaza 8/28/24

In the Presence of Absence

Jacob Leal talks with Dr. Filipe Maia about activating the imagination with hope in the face of a colonized future and about his latest book, Trading Futures: A Theological Critique of Financialized Capitalism

Open Plaza 6/19/24 Open Plaza 6/19/24

Border Radio

Bill Crawford and Gene Fowler tune in to the American “border blaster” airwaves that helped lay the foundations for today's electronic church

Open Plaza 6/12/24 Open Plaza 6/12/24

Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz

Theologians Dr. Theresa L. Torres and Dr. Theresa A. Yugar discuss Latinx women's leadership in the context of the 17th-century Mexican protofeminist and ecofeminist