Lectures, Keynotes, Workshops and Panel Presentations
Besides a hundred institutions in my home country, Venezuela, I have also been guest speaker at several religious, educational and professional institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Puerto Rico) and in Europe (Belgium, England, France, Holland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland). Below are listed the year and locale of most of my North American speaking engagements since 1982, as well as most of those abroad since 1993.
2003
Annual Meeting of the U.S. chapter of CEHILA at Austin Theological Seminary (Austin, TX).
2002
Aunnual Meeting of the AAR (Toronto, Canada).
Northeast Regional Meeting, Hispanic Theological Initiative (Orlando: FL).
County College of Morris (Randolph: NJ).
Wind of the Spirit center for immigrants' services (Morristown: NJ).
2001
Mid-Atlantic Annual Meeting of the AAR (New Brunswick: NJ)
Aurora University, Wackerlin Center for Faith and Action, V Lecture Series
(Aurora: IL).
Methodist University of Piracicaba, Department of Religious Studies (Sao Paulo:
Brazil).
III International Meeting of Socio-Religious Studies (Havana: Cuba).
Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Meeting (Anaheim: CA).
International Society for the Sociology of Religion Biennial Conference (Ixtapan:
Mexico).
International Seminar on Catholicism & Globalization, Tri-Continental
Center & Commission for the Study of Latin America's Church History (Louvain-la-Neuve:
Belgium).
2000
Conference on the Philosophical & Epistemological Foundations of Latina/o
Theology, University of San Diego (San Diego: CA).
El Diario/La Prensa Panel on Santería (New York: NY).
Second Annual Latino Empowerment Conference, College of Liberal Arts, Drew
University (Madison: NJ).
Panel on Luis Barrios’ book Josconiando, Union Theological Seminary
(New York: NY).
Pontifical Catholic University, Graduate Program in Sciences of Religion (Sao
Paulo: Brazil).
Colégio Madre Cabrini (Sao Paulo: Brazil).
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting (Boston: MA).
First Annual Latino Empowerment Conference, College of Liberal Arts, Drew
University (Madison: NJ).
1999
Latin American Jewish Studies Association, X International Conference (Princeton:
NJ).
Panel “Communities of Color and Homosexuality,” Union Theological
Seminary (New York: NY).
International Society for the Sociology of Religions Biennial Conference (Louvain:
Belgium).
Ecumenical Institute of Bossey, Research Group The Situation of Religious
Life in the World and its Challenges to the Ecumenical Movement, (Celigny:
Switzerland).
CESEP Ecumenical Center, Evaluation Consultation (Sao Paulo: Brazil).
1998
Symposium "Re-Constructing Time and Borders: Latina/o Religious/Cultural
Change and Identities" (Duke University Durham: NC).
The Davies Forum, University of San Francisco (San Francisco: CA).
Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Meeting (San Francisco: CA).
Omega Vega School of Urban & Global Missions (Bronx: NY).
Association of Hispanic Presbyterian Ministers of New York & New Jersey,
Hispanic Presbyterian Church (Kingston: NJ).
New Brunswick Theological Seminary (New Brunswick: NJ).
1997
Universidad de Puerto Rico (Río Piedras: Puerto Rico).
Dictionary of Hispanic Theology Project Meeting, Austin Presbyterian Theological
Seminary (Austin: TX).
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (San Diego: CA).
AAR Annual Meeting (San Francisco: CA).
1996
Whittier College, Faculty Center & Johnson House (Los Angeles: CA).
La Red (WCC's Network of Ecumenical Institutes for Popular Education in Latin
America) (Sao Paulo: Brazil).
Commission for the Study of the History of the Church in Latin America, Caribbean
Summer Course (Port-au-Prince: Haiti).
Union Theological Seminary (New York: NY).
Program for the Analysis of Religion Among Latinos, Catholic Theological Union
(Chicago: IL).
National Consultation on Hispanic Protestantism within Mainline Traditions,
Perkins School of Theology (Dallas: TX).
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting (Nashville: TN).
1995
Jesuit Center CINEP (Bogotá: Colombia).
Presbyterian and Reformed Theological Seminary of the Great Colombia (Barranquilla:
Colombia).
Institute for Religious Studies ISER (Rio de Janeiro: Brazil).
Ecumenical Service Center for Evangelism and Popular Education CESEP (Sao
Paulo: Brazil).
Redemptorist Center (Sao Paulo: Brazil).
Drew University, Keynote Address: Theological School Alumni Meeting (Madison:
NJ).
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (Philadelphia: PA).
1994
Maryknoll Missioners' House (Caracas: Venezuela).
Consultation on Latin American Theology, Union Theological Seminary (New York:
NY).
Graduate Theological Union’s Group of Catholic Social Scientists (Berkeley:
CA).
Latin-American Ecumenical Social Action network ASEL (Pozo de Rosas: Venezuela).
Universidad de Los Andes, Law School (Mérida: Venezuela).
Commission for the Study of the History of the Church in Latin America, Caribbean
Summer Course (Soto: Curaçao).
Institute of Religious Studies, ISER (Rio de Janeiro: Brazil).
Ecumenical Service Center for Evangelism and Popular Education CESEP (Sao
Paulo: Brazil).
Methodist University, Graduate Program in the Sciences of Religion (Sao Paulo:
Brazil).
First Presbyterian Church (Irvington: NJ).
1993
Upsala College (Upsala: NJ).
Whittier College (Whittier: CA).
University of California at Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara: CA).
Maryknoll in the City (New York: NY).
St. Mary's Church (Whittier: CA).
Institute of Religious Studies ISER (Rio de Janeiro: Brazil).
Ecumenical Service Center for Evangelism and Popular Education CESEP (Sao
Paulo: Brazil).
Pontifical Catholic University, Graduate Program in Sciences of Religion (Sao
Paulo: Brazil).
Hispanic Caucus, Union Theological Seminary (New York: NY).
1992
Carroll College (Helena: MT).
St. Mary of the Assumption Church (Whittier: CA).
Lehigh University (Lehigh: PA).
The Catholic Worker Maryhouse (New York: NY).
1991
University of Florida, Departments of Religion and Latin American Studies
(Gainesville: FL).
1990
Trinity University (San Antonio: TX).
New School for Social Research (New York: NY).
Princeton University (Princeton: NJ).
Pomona College (Pomona: CA).
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor: MI).
Eastern Fellowship of the American Society of Missiology, keynote address.
VI International Conference of the International Bonhoeffer Society (keynote
address), Union Theological Seminary, New York: NY).
Andover-Newton Theological School (Newton Centre: MA).
1989
University of Alaska (Anchorage: AK).
Alaska Pacific University (Anchorage: AK).
University of Oregon (Eugene: OR).
Newman Center at SUNY (Fredonia: New York).
1988
University of Notre Dame (South Bend: IN).
Holy Cross College (Worcester: MA).
Trinity College of Vermont (Burlington: VT).
The Catholic Worker (New York: NY).
University of Hawaii (Hilo: HI).
University of Hawaii (Honolulu: HI).
Kauai Community College (Kauai: HI).
Cheminade University (Honolulu: HI).
University of Houston (Houston: TX).
1987
Carroll College (Helena: MT)
Mount St. Mary's College (Los Angeles: CA)
Mount Ida College (Boston: MA)
Boston Theological Institute (Boston: MA).
1986
Institute for Policy Studies (Washington: DC).
U.S. Socialist Scholars' Conference, keynote address (New York: NY).
Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies, keynote address (Los Angeles:
CA).
Mount St. Mary's College (Los Angeles: CA).
Whittier College (Whittier: CA).
Acción Católica Juvenil of East Los Angeles (Los Angeles: CA).
Hispanic Ministry Diocesan Program (San Bernardino: CA).
1985
University of Notre Dame (South Bend: IN).
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor: MI).
Harvard Divinity School (Cambridge: MA).
Holy Cross College (Worcester: MA)
Boston University (Boston: MA).
University of Massachusetts (Boston: MA).
Stonehill College (Boston: MA).
Columbia University (New York: NY).
Adelphi University (Long Island: NY).
Union Theological Seminary (New York: NY).
Vanderbilt University (Nashville: TN)
New School for Social Research (New York: NY).
Monthly Review Press (New York: NY).
Montclair State College (Montclair: NJ).
Whittier College (Whittier: CA).
East Los Angeles Priests' Association (Hispanic), keynote address (Los Angeles:
CA).
Acción Católica Juvenil of East Los Angeles (Hispanic), keynote
address (Los Angeles: CA).
Toronto School of Theology (Toronto: Canada).
Annual Ontario Meeting of Development and Peace, keynote address (Toronto:
CA).
Queen's University (Kingston: Canada).
Queen's College (Queens: NY).
Revue "Relations"(Montreal: Canada).
1983
State University of New York at Binghamton, symposium on Liberation Theology,
keynote address (Binghamton: NY).
1982
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor: MI).
Stanford University (Stanford: CA).
Hispanic Ministry Program of the Diocese (Toledo: OH).
Acción Católica Juvenil of East Los Angeles (Hispanic) (Los
Angeles: CA).
Ecumenical Forum of Canada (Toronto: Canada).
Toronto School of Theology (Toronto: Canada).
Board of Trustees of the United Church of Canada (Toronto: Canada).
Queen's University (Kingston: Ontario).
Entr'aide Missionaire (Montreal: Quebec).
Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Sociological Association, keynote address
(MA).
Montclair State College (Montclair: NJ).