Event: Family, Memory, and the Borderlands

Date: Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Time: 6–8 p.m.
Where: Special Collections Reading Room, University of Arizona Libraries, 1510 E. University Blvd.

Join Special Collections to celebrate two new books from the Borderlands – "They Call You Back: A Lost History, A Search, A Memoir by Tim Z. Hernandez" and "The Molino: A Memoir" by Melani Martinez. The two authors will read from their books and discuss common themes. Both books document a lost history through the haunting, other-worldly voices calling us to remember, search, uncover and restore the authors' place and impact – their essential belonging – as descendants of farm and food workers and in the vast Borderlands.

The discussion will be moderated by Javier D. Duran, professor of Latin-American and Border Studies at the Center for Latin American Studies and the founding director of the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry under The Office of Research, Innovation & Impact at the University of Arizona.

A book signing and reception will follow the discussion with books available for purchase while supplies last. The event is sponsored and supported by The University of Arizona Press, the University Libraries Special Collections, the Southwest Center, and the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry.

The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and available first-come, first-served. Find more information here.