Come join the Center for Public History, the UH Downtown Center for Latino Studies, and the Holocaust Museum Houston for a series of public lectures and workshops by Dr. Yolanda Chávez Leyva on oral history and museum work on the Ciudad Juárez-El Paso border.

Yolanda Chávez Leyva is the Director of the Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso and an Associate Professor in History. She was born and raised on the Ciudad Juárez-El Paso border and has dedicated her life to listening to and documenting the histories of fronterizos, border people. She specializes in border history, public & oral history, and Chicana history. She is co-founder of Museo Urbano, a museum of the streets that highlights fronterizo history by taking it where people are--from museums to the actual streets of El Paso.​

Events:

Workshop
Tuesday, 9/24:
10-11:30am: Oral History Workshop I: Basics of Oral History
Location: UHD, N420

 Lecture

Wednesday, 9/25:
11:30am-1pm: Lecture on “Seeking Refuge: Gathering Oral Histories in the Midst of Suffering”
Location: UHD, Milam & Travis

 Workshop
Thursday, 9/26:
10-11:30am: Oral History Workshop II: An Oral History Workshop on Cultural Competency
Location: UHD, N420

 Lecture

6:30pm: “From behind the barbed wire: Uncaged Art from the Tornillo Children’s Detention Center”

Location: Holocaust Museum Houston. 
Please RSVP for this event at the Holocaust Museum Houston through Eventbright:
https://hmh.org/events/from-behind-the-barbed-wire-uncaged-art-from-the-tornillo-2019-09-26-18:30:00 

For more information, please contact Dr. Bonnie Lucero: lucerobo@uhd.edu