El Tambó Fest, Night One: First-Ever Cumbia Summit of the Borderlands kicked off on April 27, 2018 at Hotel Congress. The event was part of the annual Agave Heritage Festival which explores and celebrates the cultural, commercial, and culinary significance of agave on the border region through a festival of seminars, trade shows, and world-class culinary events. The evening began with a panel discussion of cumbia artists and was sponsored by Southwest Folklife Alliance and CALA Alliance (Celebración Artística de las Américas.)
Founder and Artistic Director of El Tambo Logan Phillips introduced the moderator and the speakers. El Tambo began in 2013 and bills itself as Tucson’s legendary dance party without borders. El Tambo loosely translates as “the Drum” and celebrates the cultural remixing that has always taken place here in the borderlands.
University of Arizona Assistant Professor of Mexican American Studies Michelle Téllez moderated this panel of four cumbia musicians from four of the bands who performed at El Tambó Fest, Night One: First-Ever Cumbia Summit of the Borderlands. Gabriel Sullivan from Chicha Dust, Adrian Rodriguez from La Diabla, Cody Lopez from Tohono O’odham cumbia band Native Creed, and Kiko Rodriguez from El Paso’s Frontera Bugalú.
To listen to the panel: Part 1 and Part 2 (in 30 minute segments)
Recorded by KXCI Music Director Duncan Hudson.
Edited and produced by Amanda Shauger.
Click here to watch video about the Cumbia Summit by Arizona Public Media.
Producer/Editor: Andrew Brown
Videographer: Nate Huffman, Mitch Riley
Dr. Michelle Téllez participated in a symposium at the Colegio de Sonora in Hermosillo, México on New Directions in Migration Research after the election of Trump. Visit here to see the livestream of the panel.
Plenary Panel: Institutional Responses to Gender-Based Violence
Location: Student Union, Sonora Room
This discussion will consider how various institutions—including law enforcement,
government, military, and educational institutions—respond to systemic gender-violence, including
sexual assault against migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, the phenomenon of missing and
murdered Indigenous women, campus sexual assault, and sexual harassment and assault amongst Veterans and members of the military.
with Kiera Ladner, Michelle Téllez, Richard Nichollis, Susan Montgomery
In Transit/En tránsito: Arts, Migration, Resistance is an art exhibition accompanied by related events that collectively explore artistic practice, resistance, and social transformation in relation to transnational migration and human rights politics. Anchored in the Sonoran Desert borderlands and drawing on practices from different regions of the US, Mexico, and Central America, In Transit/En tránsito will bring together artists, activists, and academics for a series of cross-disciplinary conversations and collaborations.
Organized by Drs. Kaitlin M. Murphy and Anita Huizar-Hernández, Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Dr. Téllez reads the names of graduates at the Adalberto and Ana Guerrero Student Center's 33rd Graduation Convocation held at Centennial Hall at the University of Arizona.
February 23, 2017
POL 150C2: What Is Politics?
Q&A session with Professor Noam Chomsky on the topic of "Resistance and Social Movements"
University of Arizona, Tucson.
"Dr. Michelle Telléz makes a perfect addition to the Success in America Speaker Series by providing a dazzling example of academic success and academic work in diverse communities..."
One of Arizona Humanities many goals as a community partner, is to provide the youth of Arizona opportunities to hear other voices in the community along with helping them to discover and grow theirs. Our Liberating Action Hands-on-Humanities camp is seeking to introduce youth in Southern Arizona to voices in communities throughout the nation. These community activists will work alongside the participants to examine what communities are struggling with and how to become engaged and take action to break free from the cycles that have often plagued our communities alike.
Dr. Michelle Tellez from Northern Arizona University is the guest speaker for the monthly meeting. Tellez will discuss her perspective on the recent waves of international violence toward women and the issues of violence along our borders here at home....
Scholars, writers, artists, activists, policymakers, and community members will come together in Tucson, Arizona, in January 2015 to discuss WHY Black life matters and WHAT can be done about sustained racialized state violence. The conference will include lectures, hands-on working sessions, arts and performances, and social justice actions, as well as significant time for conversation
