Conferences and Invited Lectures

• La novela latinoamericana de mujeres en el exilio, Latina American Novel Seminar, Wellesley College November 2003.
• The Story of Friendship and the Geography of Hope, The Ithaca Reform Temple, Ithaca, New York, October 2002.
• Human Rights Issues in Guatemala and Chile, Center for the Study of Democracy, Saint Mary's College of Maryland October 2002.
• Trespassing the Past: Rethinking "Testimonios: A writers Perspective", Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University, October, 2002.
• Arpilleras: The Political Power of Cloth, Wilbur D.May Museum, Reno, Nevada, October, 2001.
• Women and the Political Imagination of Resistance: The Example of Chile, Symposium-Women, Writing and Resistance in Latin America and The Caribbean, Simon's Rock College of Bard, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, November 2001.
• Issues Facing Latinos in the USA at the Beginning of a New Era, State University of South Georgia, Carrington, Georgia, March 2001.
• Human Rights in Chile: Women, Witnessing and the Arts, Loyola Marymount University, April, 2001.
• Pinochet's Trail: Will Justice Prevail?, Barnard College, New York, October, 2000.
• El testimonio de las escritoras latinoamericanas: realidad o ficción, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, December 2000.
• Latina Women in Politics, Hispanic Conference, Boise, Idaho, 1998.
• Círculos de Locura/Circles of Madness: la fotografía como ausencia y presencia en el discurso poético, Fifth Annual Conference on Ibero-American Culture and Society: Latin American Women Writers--Discourse on/of the Feminine, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico, February 1996.
• Las voces poéticas de Zonas del dolor/Zones Of Pain de Marjorie Agosín, Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 1995.
• U.S. Latina Women in Politics, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, April, 1995.
• Chilean Textiles of Resistance, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California, March 1995.
• Social Art Under a Dictatorship , Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Women's Center, William Paterson College, New Jersey, October 1995.
• Photography as a Poetic Discourse, Congreso Nacional de la Asociaci6n de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Barnard College, New York, October 1995.
• Chile, 20 Years After, Brewery Arts Center, Carson City, Nevada, March 1994.
• Many Faces of Feminism, Bridges of Power, Conference, University of Nevada, Reno, Women's Political Action Network, March 1994.
• Dance of Hope: Chile During Pinochet's Regime, Comstock Arts Council, November 1994.
• Women's Literature as Political Testimony, Hawaii Council for the Arts and The University of Hawaii, European Studies, August 1993.
• Threads of Hope: A Silent Struggle, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 1993.
• Pia Barros y la generación del des-encanto en Chile, IV Simposio Internacional de Crítica Literaria y escritura de Mujeres de América Latina, Guadalajara, Mexico, December 1993.
• Poetry and Photography, The Space Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 1992.
• Latin American Women and Photography, Babson College, Massachusetts, October 1992.
• La otra versión de la historia: el testimonio escrito por mujeres en Chile, New England Council of Latin American Studies, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, October 1992.
• El testimonio chileno, II Congreso Nacional de la Asociaci6n de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, October 1991.
• Arpillera: Folk Art by Women in Chile, Women's History Month, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, March 1990.
• Donde terminal el poems empieza la poesía: la pagina en blanco como lenguaje, X Congreso de Hispanistas, Barcelona, Spain, August 1989.
• Threads of Protest: Women, Folkart and Political Struggle in Chile, International Women's Day Lecture, University of California, Davis, March 1989.
• El lector de poesía: función interpretativa de los espacios del silencio, Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 1989.
• Poesía chilena escrita en Estados Unidos, International Symposium of Literature: el Descubrimiento y los desplazamientos: la literatura hispanoamericana como diálogo entre centros, Puerto Rico, 1988.
• El reverso del discurso en Poemas de la consumación, XVIII Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas, Berlin, West Germany, August 1985.
• María Louisa Bombal y el silencio, Fifth Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, 1985.
• Notas sobre una lectura de En Las orillas del Sar, Congreso Internacional sobre Rosalía Castro e o seu tempo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 1985.
• Dos heroinas en busca de un destino: Nada y la última niebla, XXIII Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Madrid, Spain, August 1984.
• Needles That Talk: The Story of the Chilean Arpillera, University of California, Davis, 1984.
• Los silencios de Machado, Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Virginia State University, Blackburg, Virginia, October 1983.
• Las novelas intercaladas en Niebla, Foreign Languages Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 1982.