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UPCOMING EVENT
COZAMAYOTL Town Hall
May 24, 20225

 
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Keynote speaker at the
Western Association of
Women Historians (WAWH)

Conference
on April 25, 2025.
My talk explored why I began
writing memories and how
they offer a valuable lens for understanding history.
February 14, 2025
at UA Library Special Collections

 
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Keynote on November 7, 2024
for APA Latinos
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My talk celebrating the culmination of my latest book, L.A. Interchanges on Sunday, July 30th, 2023 at the L.A. Central Library's Mark Taper Auditorium.

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Together On the Air

I was a panelist at the closing event for the ONE Archives Foundation exhibit on March 31, 2023. It also featured a special screening of the LGBTQ+ and Latinx documentary "Unidad: Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos."  The program highlighted the coalition work built between César Chávez, United Farm Workers, and members of GLLU toward LGBTQIA+ Latinx rights and liberation in 1980s and 1990s Los Angeles. Access the online "Together on The Air" exhibit HERE.

 

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Re-Activating Tucson's Downtown History

The University of Arizona's Confluencenter hosted a "Show & Tell" discussion that focused on efforts to re-activate Mexican/Mexican American history on January 27, 2023 at the Sosa-Carrillo House (which is now the Mexican American Heritage & History Museum). I, Betty Villegas, and Mayor Regina Romero were the featured speakers. Watch it HERE. You can find my presentation at the 1:00 mark. 

 

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NPR featured the
Notitas:
Select Columns From
The Tucson Citizen
 

Book Relea
se
held on
September 25, 2021
on Arizona Spotlight.

It is the first story but the entire
program is pretty interesting.

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2021 Tucson Festival of Books
"Arizona authors Alberto Álvaro Ríos and Lydia R. Otero discuss their newest books, both of which explore the power of place and community along the border. How much is lost when families are dislocated altogether? Living where we do, these are things for all of us to think about."

©2025 by Lydia R. Otero, Some rights reserved.

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