Austin Institute Colloquia "Dr. Martínez"
Thu, Feb 05
|Austin Institute
Experience 20 minutes of insightful discussion, followed by an engaging Q&A session with the public, and a chance to connect during our get-together. Our February speaker, Alberto Martinez, has been a professor of history at UT Austin for 20 years. He is the author of eight books!
Time & Location
Feb 05, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Austin Institute, 3206 Fairfax Walk, Austin, TX 78705, USA
About The Event
February guest speaker:
Alberto Martinez has been a professor of history at UT Austin for 20 years. He is the author of eight books, including Eyes of Texas: Blackface to Whitewash (2025), The Media Versus the Apprentice: The Devil Mr. Trump (2019), and Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition (2018). He has been a research fellow at M.I.T., Caltech, Harvard, Boston University, and The Smithsonian. He is an honorary Fellow of the American Physical Society.
About the Austin Institute colloquia:
Each Colloquium takes place at the Austin Institute on the first Thursday of every month. We begin with a 20-minute introduction by a guest speaker — someone with deep interest and knowledge in the topic at hand. From there, we move into 30 minutes of open discussion, where participants and speaker alike are invited to think aloud, ask questions, and exchange ideas in a spirit of seriousness, curiosity, and mutual respect.
