7 PM Woodside Hall in the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa and online. Register here.
Aimee Villarreal
Biography:
Aimee M. Villarreal is an assistant professor of anthropology at Texas State University. As a Chicana with roots in New Mexico and Texas, she descends from farmworkers, faith healers, educators, and community workers whose collective spirit she brings to her teaching, scholarship, and creative projects. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on sanctuary practices, movements, and other radical acts of rebeldía for social justice, equity, and sustainable futures in the US-Mexico borderlands. Villarreal was part of the creative team that made the award-winning documentary animation, Frontera! Revolt and Rebellion on the Río Grande (2014). Her forthcoming book Sanctuaryscapes in the New Mexico Borderlands: Movements and Revivals Across the Secular-Religious Divide (2024), tells time-traveling stories about how people form bonds of solidarity, protection, and care in moments of social and political crisis.
