Gilberto Cardenas, Ph.D., assistant provost and director of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, inaugurated Tuesday the Americo Paredes Commemorative Lecture at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College. The lecture aims to bring to campus distinguished scholars or others who have made significant contributions to the study or development of the border region.
In the morning Cardenas addressed students, before speaking at 6 p.m. for the main event. Cardenas, a professor of sociology, was named three times by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the 100 most influential U.S. Latinos. He is a member of the President’s Commission on Creation of the Museum of the American Latino and a member of the Smithsonian Latino Board. The lecture honors Paredes, a Brownsville native who taught at the University of Texas at Austin and was a writer, poet and folklorist who fought against discrimination and bias. He died in 1999. The event is sponsored by the Texas Center for Border and Transnational Studies at UTB-TSC.
The center is formed by faculty across several departments who work together on research and teaching affecting the border. READ MORE
In the morning Cardenas addressed students, before speaking at 6 p.m. for the main event. Cardenas, a professor of sociology, was named three times by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the 100 most influential U.S. Latinos. He is a member of the President’s Commission on Creation of the Museum of the American Latino and a member of the Smithsonian Latino Board. The lecture honors Paredes, a Brownsville native who taught at the University of Texas at Austin and was a writer, poet and folklorist who fought against discrimination and bias. He died in 1999. The event is sponsored by the Texas Center for Border and Transnational Studies at UTB-TSC.
The center is formed by faculty across several departments who work together on research and teaching affecting the border. READ MORE
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