GETS Hispanic-Latinx Center

02/15/2024

Join us for this year's Cátedra! Join us for the Cátedra Paulo Freire 2024, "Navigating Educational Landscape in Unsettling Times," held in-person and online on March 14–15. Renown critical educator and public intellectual Henry Giroux will be our featured speaker, and will explore the theme "Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Emerging Authoritarianism." Register today! https://buff.ly/41i5f2c

06/17/2023

Congratulations Patricia Bonilla! We are delighted and proud of all you've accomplished! The Latinx Center celebrates with you this new cycle in your academic life with excitment! May it be a time of growth, fruitful connections and great opportunities. (...)¡Felicidades Patricia Bonilla! ¡Estamos encantadxs y orgullosxs de todo lo que has logrado! ¡El Centro Latinx celebra contigo este nuevo ciclo en tu vida académica con emoción! Que sea un tiempo de crecimiento, conexiones fructíferas y grandes oportunidades.

Patricia Bonilla to become instructor of Christian education, effective July 1, 2023.

05/08/2023

05/08/2023

Happening this week!

Dr. Yara González-Justiniano, Vanderbilt University

"Sustainable and Community-engaged Hope"

Event Date:
Wednesday May 10, 2023
7:00pm - 8:15pm (EST)

For this eighteenth HSP Exchange, we are delighted to welcome Dr. Yara González-Justiniano, Assistant Professor of Religion, Culture, and Psychology with emphasis in Latinx Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is also an affiliated faculty of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies. Her most recent publication, Centering Hope as a Sustainable Decolonial Practice: Esperanza en Práctica (2022), wrestles with answering the question of what does hope look like in the midst of socioeconomic crisis.

Register today!
https://hispanicsummerprogram.org/programs/hsp-exchange/

05/01/2023

We are thankful for the Stead Center’s partnership for our 35th Anniversary Celebration 💛

04/17/2023

Join us this week for our 35th Anniversary Event with Dra. Nancy Pineda-Madrid!

In-person | Livestream Join us online or in the Chapel of the Unnamed Faithful as we close out the 35th […]

04/12/2023

Join the Hispanic-Latinx Center, The Stead Center for Ethics and Values, guest lecturer Dr. Nancy Pineda-Madrid and other leaders online for a two day event to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Hispanic Latinx Center.

Thursday April 20th from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Join us online or in the Chapel of the Unnamed Faithful as we begin the 35th anniversary of the Hispanic-Latinx Center by examining the evils of feminicide with guest lecturer Dr. Nancy Pineda Madrid

Friday April 21st from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Join us online or in person as we close out the 35th anniversary with roundtable conversations and lunch

Topics and guests include:
Rudy Reyes: Social Salvation for Neurodivergent Latinxs (In-person)
Nancy Bedford: Theology in the face of feminicidal violence (In-person)
Patricia Bonilla: Whose children are they? Listening to the Voices and Stories of Latinx Youth (In-person)
Kate Ott: Ética de lo cotidiano (Zoom)

Register here:

Join the Hispanic-Latinx Center and the Stead Center of Ethics as we close out the 35th anniversary by examining the evils of feminicide with guest lecturer Dr. Nancy Pineda-Madrid. Questions or concerns about these events? Please reach out to [email protected].

04/10/2023

Join us: "Social Salvation and the Need to Re-member” with Dr. Nancy Pineda-Madrid to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Hispanic-Latinx Center. Nancy Pineda-Madrid will lecture on her newest book and push us to consider issues of femicide.
April 20, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Online and on campus. Also check out the Friday roundtables after you register!

In-person | Livestream Join us online or in the Chapel of the Unnamed Faithful as we close out the 35th […]

03/27/2023

Grant Opportunity for Latinx Pastors and Congregational Leaders!

Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary is offering the following two grants:

Latinx Church Leadership Renewal Grants in the amount of $3,500 for one year. Grants are to fund leadership education, retreat, renewal or development of a ministry team, not for ongoing operational or personnel expenses. The idea is to provide support for a group of people in leadership within one congregation. The group will design their own opportunities as appropriate to their context.
Apply here: http://bit.ly/3LGBx1k

College of Pastoral Leaders grants in the amount of $10,000 for two years. (Not limited to Latinx pastors.) Groups of four to six clergy from different congregations may apply. Grants are to fund leadership education, retreat, or renewal, not for ongoing operational or personnel expenses. The group will design their own opportunities as appropriate to their context.
Apply Here: http://bit.ly/3LKK0AF

Both applications are due MAY 12, 2023.