Borderlands Curanderos (Via Zoom)

April 25, 6:30pm-8:00pm (Central Time)

$10 preregistered/prepaid.

Registration Deadline: April 21 (A link will be sent to you on April 22.)

Jennifer Seman will give a lecture presentation on her recently published book, Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jamarillo. Santa Teresa Urrea (1873-1906) and Don Pedro Jaramillo (1873-1907) were two healers from Mexico who practiced curanderismo – a Mexican and Indigenous faith healing practice in the U.S.-Mexico borderland, amidst rapid social and political transformation in both Mexico and the United States. This presentation will shed light on the lives and healing practice of Urrea and Jaramillo, as well as the U.S. borderlands at the turn of the century, within the overlapping contexts of race, state-building and institutionalized/professionalized medicine. This presentation will suggest that curanderismo, as practiced by Urrea and Jaramillo, contributed to the vitality of racially diverse communities in need of healthcare as well as religious and political inspiration; not unlike immigrants from Mexico and Central America who cross the border today to find opportunity in the ‘American Dream’, and refuge from oppressive regimes.

Jennifer Koshatka Seman, PhD, lectures in history at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where she teaches courses in U.S. history, Latin American history and Multicultural America. Her research focuses on how race, gender and spirituality interact between subaltern practices and institutional power. Jennifer attended St. Pius Grade School and is a graduate of Lourdes High School.

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