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		Galarza Lecture 2009 Galarza Lecture Ernest Galarza (1905-1984) List of Past Lecturers and Speeches		The lecture series honors the memory of Ernesto Galarza, a man of vision who was a community leader, an activist, and a scholar. His work was associated with Stanford from his graduate studies in Latin American history to his work with a community health center in San Jose. Galarza blended the toughness of an organizer with the tenderness of a poet and writer of children’s stories. Ernesto Galarza spoke both to the suffering inflicted on Chicanos in the United States and to the hope held for future generations. Perhaps the lectures in his name can renew Galarza’s vision for those of us who have followed after. 2009 Galarza Lecture: Rosa Rosales "Bringing it Home: The Trek Through Higher Education and Back" May 15, 2009, 5pm - 8pm, Tresidder Union, Oak Lounge $15 per alumni, faculty, staff; $5 per student Register online by May 11th at http://www.stanfordalumni.org/erc/regional (under California -Bay Area select Pennisula and then Galarza Lecture) The Twenty-Fourth Annual Commemorative Galarza Lecture and 9th Annual Chicano/Latino Community Awards will feature Rosa Rosales, the National President of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). LULAC is the largest and oldest Hispanic organization in the United States and has focused heavily on education, civil rights, and employment for Hispanics. The organization involves and serves all Hispanic nationality groups. Ms. Rosa Rosales was among the first Mexican American women to become labor organizers in recent times. Active in LULAC, she was the first woman to hold the position of State Director of that organization. Ms. Rosales received her B.A. in Liberal Arts from the University of Michigan. After serving on the National LULAC Board of Directors and holding the position of National Vice President of the Southwest, in 2006 Ms. Rosales was elected president of LULAC. Ernest Galarza (1905-1984) Born in Jalcocotán, Nayarit, Mexico, on August 15, 1905, Dr. Ernesto Galarza came to the United States when he was 8 years old. One of Stanford’s first Chicano alumni, Galarza received a Master’s degree in Latin American History and Political Science in 1929. After graduation he married Mae Taylor and eventually went on to complete a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University in 1944. An intellectual, civil rights and labor activist and scholar, he was a pioneer during the decades when Mexican Americans had few public advocates. As a youth, Dr. Galarza worked as a farm laborer in Sacramento and he dedicated his life to the struggle for justice for farm workers and the urban working-class Latinos, and to changing existing educational philosophy and curricula in the schools. During the 1950’s, Dr. Galarza helped build the first multiracial farm worker union, which set the foundation for the emergence of the United Farm Workers Union. His civil rights legacy also includes the founding of the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). In 1979, Dr. Galarza was the first U.S. Latino to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include: Strangers in our Fields (1956), Merchants of Labor (1964), Spiders in the House and Workers in the Fields (1970), Barrio Boy (1971), Farm Workers and Agribusiness in California (1977), and Tragedy at Chualar (1977). Galarza’s papers and archives are housed in the Department of Special Collections at Stanford. List of Past Speakers Inaugural Lecture "The Undying Love of 'El Indio' Córdova: décimas and Oral History in a Border Family" Americo Paredes, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas--Austin Second Annual Lecture "Democracy and Diversity" Cruz Reynoso, Former California Supreme Court Justice Third Annual Lecture "Resolana: A Chicano Pathway to Knowledge" Tomás Atencio, Associate Director of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, University of New Mexico Fourth Annual Lecture "The Passing Gusts of Social Change" Herman Gallegos, Management Consultant Fifth Annual Lecture "On the Bridge, At the Border: Migrants and Immigrants" Arturo Islas, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University Sixth Annual Lecture "Silent No More—A Latina’s Vision for Leadership" Polly B. Baca, Executive Director, Colorado Institute for Hispanic Education and Economic Development Seventh Annual Lecture "Mestizaje: The Formation of Chicanos" Julian Samora, Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame Eighth Annual Lecture "Latinos in the Decade of the 90’s: A Political Coming of Age" Antonia Hernandez, President and General Counsel, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) Ninth Annual Lecture "Ernesto Galarza’s Legacy to the History of Labor Migration" Jorge A. Bustamante, President, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Eugene Conley, Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame Tenth Annual Lecture "Memory, Cultural Identity and the Social Imaginary: Art of the Chicana/o Community" Amalia Mesa-Bains, Artist Eleventh Annual Lecture Bert Corona, Labor and Civil Rights Leader Twelfth Annual Lecture "The Political Integration of Racial and Ethnic Minorities" Joaquín G. Avila, Voting Rights Attorney Thirteenth Annual Lecture Vilma Martinez, Civil Rights Attorney and Activist Fourteenth Annual Lecture Arturo Madrid, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Trinity University Fifteenth Annual Lecture Renato Rosaldo, Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University Sixteenth Annual Lecture Jose Padilla, Musician Seventeenth Annual Lecture Dolores Huerta, Co-founder and Vice President Emeritus, the United Farm Workers of America Eighteenth Annual Lecture Luis Valdez, Founder & Artistic Director, El Teatro Campesino Nineteenth Annual Lecture Juliet Villarreal Garcia, President, University of Texas Brownsville and Texas Southmost College Twentieth Annual Lecture Michael Olivas, Distinguished Chair of Law, University of Houston Law Center Twenty-First Annual Lecture Sandra Cisneros, Author Twenty-Second Annual Lecture Maria Echaveste, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Twenty-Third Annual Lecture Lourdes Portillo, Screenwriter and Filmmaker Twenty-Fourth Annual Lecture Rosa Rosales, National President of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
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