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A pair of lectures, with Dr. Marianna Torgovnick, celebrating the English writer and poet D.H. Lawrence are slated for early-April. The first lecture of the 3rd annual D.H. Lawrence celebration, titled Friends and Lovers: Owning D.H. Lawrence, is set...

The XLVIII Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) Distinguished Lecture will feature Professor Robert K. Hitchcock, who will discuss the “Plight of the Kalahari San: Hunter-Gatherers in a Globalized World,” on Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the UNM...

Professor Karen Kramer is presenting the XLVII Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) Distinguished Lecture, “How there got to be so many of us: The evolutionary story of population growth and a human life history of cooperation,’’ on...

Author and film historian Jon Bowman will present the annual fall Willard Lecture, focusing on the first filmmakers in New Mexico.  The lecture, titled “New Mexico’s First Filmmakers: Revisiting the Stars and Directors of the Silent Era” will be held...

For more than 30 years, The University of New Mexico and the Institute for Medieval Studies (IMS) have collaborated to present the Spring Lecture Series, an annual celebration of world-class scholarship and research to the UNM campus community. This...

The spring Willard Lecture at University Libraries will be given by Anne Hillerman, daughter of author and former UNM faculty member Tony Hillerman. It is scheduled for April 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the West Wing of Zimmerman Library. Tony Hillerman Tony...

People who embody living history are few and far between. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with Aaron Dixon, former Captain of the Seattle Chapter of the Black Panther Party, speaking on the topic: Journey Through the Black Underground. Presented...

Two groundbreaking lectures will take place at UNM School of Law on Thursday, March 22. First, Professor Deleso Alford from Florida A&M University College of Law presents the Henrietta Lacks and HeLa Cells portion of “The HER-story” series on...

There’s an impactful story told time and again about University of New Mexico alumna and former College of Education (COE) Adjunct Professor Jane Blumenfeld, who died on Sept. 19, 2017. As reported in her obituary: “In the 1950s she (Blumenfeld) pressed...

In what is a very special time for The University of New Mexico Anthropology Department—its 90th anniversary of the department, 80th for serial anthropological publications by UNM and nearly the 75th of the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology/Journal of...