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The Center for the Southwest at The University of New Mexico announces the 2023 C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lecture in Western History and Culture, which takes place Monday, March 20, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in UNM Student Union Building, Ballroom C.  Dr....

“Psyche” is both the name of an asteroid in the main belt, orbiting out past Mars, and the name of a NASA mission to visit that asteroid. The upcoming exploration of this asteroid marks an important first for humankind: NASA has sent people or robots to...

After a two-year hiatus, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology’s annual Ancestors lecture will return with a talk by The University of New Mexico assistant professor and evolutionary anthropologist Ian Wallace. The lecture will be Thursday, Feb. 16, at 6:30...

Cristina Rodríguez, J.D., will present, "Partisan Polarization, the Supreme Court, and Prospects for Reform" at The University of New Mexico School of Law on Thursday, Feb. 23. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public....

The Journal of Anthropological Research, which is housed at The University of New Mexico, is hosting lectures in October. Torben Rick, curator of North American Archaeology at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institute, will...

One hundred years ago, the nomadic British writer D.H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda Lawrence, also a writer, accepted an invitation from socialite and arts patron Mabel Dodge Luhan to visit her in Taos, N.M. In September, the D. H. Lawrence Ranch...

Cynthia Chavez Lamar, University of New Mexico alumna and director of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), will be the guest speaker at the inaugural Alfonso Ortiz Lecture on Thursday and Friday, April 28 and 29. An enrolled member of...

The University of New Mexico Institute for Medieval Studies (IMS) will host its first live spring lecture series since the beginning of the pandemic. Re-Envisioning the Middle Ages will be the theme of the second annual Helen Damico Memorial Lecture...

The University of New Mexico’s long-scheduled Journal of Anthropological Research 52nd Distinguished Lecture will host Christina Warinner, a bioarcheologist at Harvard and the Max Planck Institute best known for her research on the evolution of ancient...

Internationally recognized scholar and Penn State Lehigh Valley Professor of Communication Arts and Ssciences Nichola D. Gutgold makes a virtual appearance at The University of New Mexico to address the widely discussed topic of women and the U.S....