Aficionados Speaker Series
Originating in 1984, The Hulbert Center Aficionados program is driven by the public interest in the American Southwest. The Aficionados welcome all who are eager to gain knowledge of the people, land, environment, arts, and anthropology that enrich this region. During each block at 91自拍, the Aficionados host a luncheon that includes a lecture by a speaker with expertise in an issue pertaining to the Southwest. While certainly not required, several Aficionados attendees are among the regular donors to Hulbert Center programs. All donations are tax-exempt.
To be notified about upcoming lectures join our mailing list . To make a reservation for any of the lunch lectures, please call (719) 389-6334 or e-mail swshulbert@coloradocollege.edu.
Upcoming Keynote Speakers
Aficionados
Dr. Ever Reyes "Sounding My Roots: History, Language, and Resistance through Music"
Nov 4th at 12:15pm, South Hall Commons
Public Readings
Noé Alvarez "Spirit Run and Accordion Eulogies"
Dec 10th at 4:00pm, Cornerstone Screening Room
Past Keynote Speakers
2023-2024
Virginia Sanchez "Displaced in place in territorial Colorado 1861-1875"
Vicente Telles "Santos: The Ideas of Maker"
Estevan Rael-Gálvez "Native Bound Unbound- Archive of Indigenous Slavery"
Santiago Ivan Guerra "Psychedelic Cynic: The Passage of the Colorado Natural Medicine Health Act and the Peyote Problem"
2024-2025
Kate Perdoni "Collaborative Documentary Filmmaking in Southern Colorado: The San Luis Valley and the Jicarilla Apache"
April Bojorquez "The Desertification Cookbook: Revitalizing Desert Wasteland Through Land Art"
Savanah Pennell "Decolonizing Museums: Borderlands Theory as Community Building"
2025-2026
Adrienne Garbini & Trent Segura "Cultural Repair: The San Luis Valley Colcha Embroidery Project"
Jessica Sánchez Flores, José Dominguez & María Rocha "Coahuiltecan Language Reclamation Program"
Rafael Martinez "Mapping Resistance: Historicizing Undocumented Youth Movements"
2026-2027
David Correia "Camera Shop Colonialism: Gallup, NM and the Bordertown Photographer as Frontier Archetype."
Other Past Public Events
Public Readings
2024-2025
Bobby LeFebre "Praxis of Place: Poetry and the Art of Belonging"
Tommy Archuleta "Poetry and the Laws of Grief & Loss"
2025-2026
Ire’ne Lara Silva "Reading and Q&A with poet and writer ire'ne lara silva"
Public Lectures
2025-2026
Gustavo Arellano "What a California Mexican with Glasses has Learned from Colorado Latinos"
2026-2027
José Antonio Arellano "Like a Toothache: why some novels about Mexican Americans refuse your sympathy and identification"