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On Thursday, Nov. 10 from noon to 1 p.m. in the Hokona Cellar classroom, New Mexico Higher Education Secretary Dr. Jose Z. García presents, "How Did Ciudad Juárez Become the Most Violent City in the World?" The event is free and open to the public.García ...

Sociology Professor Susan Tiano, who also directs the University of New Mexico Latin American & Iberian Institute, has been appointed for a three-year term to the Inter-American Foundation's (IAF) Advisory Council. "It's an incredible honor for me to ...

Andrew Offenburger, the Richard E. Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar, presents, "When the American West Turned South: Development and Dispossession in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands," Wednesday, Oct. 26 at noon in the Waters Room in the UNM Zimmerman ...

"A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness," a Literary & Visual Art Presentation with Cherríe Moraga and Celia Herrera Rodríguez, is set for Thursday, Aug. 25 from 7-9:30 p.m. in the Kiva Lecture Hall, located at the northeast end of Cornell Mall, near ...

The Latin American and Iberian Institute and the School of Architecture and Planning, with funding from the FIPSE IPEX, Indigenous Planning Exchange program, offer four $1,200 scholarships for UNM students to attend a conference hosted by UNM partner the ...

Latin American and Iberian Institute Visiting Scholar Miguel Neneve presents, "Travel-writing on the Amazon in the Nineties," Monday, Aug. 22, at noon at the LAII, 801 Yale NE, on the main UNM campus.Neneve is a professor in the Department of Foreign ...

University of New Mexico Assistant Professor Matías Fontenla, who teaches economic development, wanted his students to have a hands-on learning experience, so last year he led a group to Nicaragua, the poorest Latin American country. The students were ...

Susan Tiano, director of the Latin American & Iberian Institute announces that the LAII has received Title VI National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies funding from the U.S. Department of Education. Over the four year cycle of the ...

The Latin American and Iberian Institute and the University Libraries Inter-American Studies Program invite you to a presentation by Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar Gary Van Valen on Wednesday, June 23, at 12:30 p.m. in the Herzstein Latin American ...