Professor Vivancos Pérez lectures on Chicana writer and activist Gloria Anzaldúa at the University of California Santa Barbara

Professor Vivancos Pérez lectures on Chicana writer and activist Gloria Anzaldúa at the University of California Santa Barbara
In the picture, from left to right, are Professor Francisco Lomelí, Professor Sara Poot-Herrera, Professor Emeritus Víctor Fuentes, Professor Vivancos Pérez, and Professor Chela Sandoval on November 6th.
Professor Ricardo F. Vivancos Pérez was invited to give several lectures at the University of California Santa Barbara, November 6th to 9th, 2013. On Wednesday, November 6th, he lectured on “Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands and the Coyolxauhqui Imperative,” and gave a 2-hour seminar on Gloria Anzaldúa as an invited guest for Professor Silvia Bermúdez’s PhD course entitled “Foundational Women/Foundational Authors.”
 
On Thursday, November 7th, Professor Vivancos participated as an invited panelist at the XVI Colloquium on Mexican Literature “Huellas del tiempo/Traces of Time” with a talk entitled “Las mitologías policéntricas del feminismo chicano actual.”
 
Finally, on Friday, November 8th, pioneer Chicano Literature Professor Francisco A. Lomelí gave the introductory talk at Professor Vivancos’s presentation of his new book Radical Chicana Poetics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
 
At the end of Professor Vivancos’s lecture on Gloria Anzaldúa, Chicana feminist theorist Chela Sandoval, who was one Gloria Anzaldúa’s closest friends, commented on her friendship with Anzaldúa, and stated that “Gloria [Anzaldúa] would have loved your talk and your research on her works and Chicana feminisms.”