The Future is Mestiz@: From Samuel Huntington to Virgilio Elizondo to ???

In this illustrated lecture, Dr. Davíd Carrasco will honor the life and work of the Mexican American liberation theologian Virgilio Elizondo by placing his radical vision of cultural, racial and ethnic mixtures/cruces de caminos in dialogue with other influential thinkers. On the one hand Carrasco will show Elizondo’s critique of ‘clash’ theorists such as  Samuel T. Huntington and Robert Kaplan. On the other hand we will see how Elizondo’s thought and work interfaces with scholar/activists such as the medical anthropologist Arthur Kleinman, Latina historian Daisy Machado and poet John Phillip Santos. The lecture ends with a Q and A focused on how the new generation of Hispanic/Latin@ scholar/activists will shape our troubled world.

Dr. Davíd Carrasco is the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard Divinity School.

Reception to follow lecture.

Parking is available.