past presentations

The Prison Show, hosted by Ray Hill. Mr. Hill has hosted the The Prison Show on Pacifica Radio Houston, KPFT 90.1, since 1980.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Guest from the Texas After Violence Project: Gabe Solis

The Austin History Center, Mexican American Oral History Project. Mr. Solis presented on using digital audio and video for oral history interviews.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Ruiz Branch Public Library
Texas After Violence Project speaker: Gabe Solis

Amnesty, International
McCallum High School
Texas After Violence Project speakers: Kim Bacon

At the Death House Door, film screening and panel discussion.
Screen Door Film, with the Kozmetsky Center for Excellence in Global Finance and the Digital Media Management Program of the the School of Management and Business at St. Edward's University.
Jones Auditorium, Ragsdale Center, St. Edward's University, 3001 South Congress Avenue, Austin.
Friday, April 17, 2009, 7 - 9:30 p.m.
Texas After Violence Project speakers: Gabriel Solis (panelist) and Ellen Sweets (moderator)
Co-panelists: Carroll Pickett, former Death Row chaplain and subject of the film; Brother Richard Daly, Chaplain, St. Edwards University, and for twenty-six (26) years the executive director of the Texas Catholic Conference, the "Official Public Policy Voice of the Catholic Bishops in Texas" ; Sara Hickman, musician; Bob Van Steenburg, President, Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP).
Attendees from the Texas After Violence Project: Kimberly Bacon, Lydia Crafts, Sabina Hinz-Foley, Virginia Raymond, Megan Sissom, Emmanuel Tomes

"The Death Penalty in the U.S. and International Human Rights," a panel at Human Rights at UT: A Dialogue at the Intersection of Academics & Advocacy, sponsored by the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas School of Law
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Presenters: Kimberly Bacon, Antony Cherian, Papa Diallo, Sabina Hinz-Foley, Walter Long, and Gabriel Solis, for the Texas After Violence Project
Moderator: Eric Tang, Assistant Professor, John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies (CAAS), UT Austin

United World College (UWC) delegation visit to the Texas After Violence Project. Our guests, ten students and two faculty members from the Montezuma, New Mexico campus of UWC-USA, hailed from Chile, Germany, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Senegal, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, Viet Nam, and the United States. We shared a meal and a stimulating exchange about the politics, practices, and beliefs about the death penalty in their home countries and in Texas. Thanks to Papa Diallo for arranging the visit; UWC-USA faculty Cheikh Badiane and Ronald Parris Bushong for bringing the students to us; Lydia Crafts and Tom Kolker for helping with preparations; and the South Congress Avenue Texas French Bread.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Presenters: Sabina Hinz-Foley, Gabe Solis, and Virginia Raymond

Execution Watch, produced by Elizabeth Ann Stein and hosted by Ray Hill. Mr. Hill has hosted the Texas Prison Show on Pacifica Radio Houston, KPFT 90.1, since 1980.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Guest from the Texas After Violence Project: Gabe Solis

All Saints' Episcopal Church, Austin
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Presenters from Texas After Violence Project: Virginia Garrard Burnett and Virginia Raymond

Abriendo Brecha V, Office of Thematic Initiatives and Community Engagement, Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, University of Texas at Austin
Rev. Marvin C. Griffin Building, 1008 East 11th Street, Austin
Friday, February 20, 2009
Participants in engaged research discussion: Gabe Solis and Virginia Raymond

Immigration, Incarceration and Capital Punishment: Texas as a Case Study, Interdepartmental Program for Experimental and Cross-Disciplinary Studies, Winter Study Program of Williams College, at the invitation of Williams Professor Joy James
Rev. Marvin C. Griffin Building, 1008 East 11th Street, Austin
January 15, 21, and 22, 2009
Presenters from the Texas After Violence Project: Gabe Solis and VirginiaRaymond
Additional participants from the Texas After Violence Project: Jennifer Anker, Kimberly Bacon, Mark Evans, and Sabina Hinz-Foley

Quilombo, at the invitation of Professor Joy James
Office of Thematic Initiatives and Community Engagement, University of Texas at Austin
Rev. Marvin C. Griffin Building, 1008 East 11th Street, Austin
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Guest participants: Gabe Solis and Virginia Raymond

University of the Incarnate Word
Courtesy of Professor Roger Barnes
San Antonio
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Presenters from the Texas After Violence Project: Gabe Solis and Virginia Raymond

Texas Interdisciplinary Plan (TIP), College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Presenter for the Texas After Violence Project: Gabe Solis

United Methodist Women, Asbury United Methodist Church, Austin
Monday, June 2, 2008
Presenters: Gabe Solis and Virginia Raymond

"Violence and Chicana/o Cultural Production,", Annual Conference, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), Austin
March 19-22, 2008
Texas After Violence Participant: Virginia Raymond
Invited co-panelists & friends: Teresa Palomo Acosta, Martha Cotera, and JoAnn Carreon Reyes & Ruperto Reyes of Teatro Vivo

Abriendo Brecha IV, Activist Scholarship at the Tejas Global Crossroads
University of Texas at Austin
February 21-23, 2008
Presenters from the Texas After Violence Project: Kim Bacon, Papa Diallo, Gabe Solis, & Ashley Tanzy
Invited co-panelists & friends: Lisa Byrd, Martha Cotera, & Alberta Phillips

Huston-Tillotson University, Austin, Courtesy of Professor Michael Hirsch, Sociology
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Presenter from the Texas After Violence Project: Virginia Raymond