Miguel Gandert, professor of communication and journalism, will lecture on cultural mixing from New Mexico to Bolivia, Friday, March 25, 6 p.m., in room 105 at the Hibben Center. Gandert will present the 2005 Richard Etulain Lecture, titled "Dancing on Hard Ground: Reading Cultural History in Photographs."
The visual presentation will feature Gandert's photographic work on the dances of mixed-blood people in the American Southwest and South America.
An opening reception for Gandert's photo exhibit at the Maxwell Museum will be at the adjacent Hibben Center at 7:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served. "Nuevo Mexico Profundo: Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland," features Gandert's documentary photographs of mestizo ritual.
Gandert is an internationally known phoptographer who received his masters from UNM in 1983. He recently collaborated with UNM Professor Enrique Lamadrid on “Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indio-Hispano rituals of Captivity and Redemption” (UNM Press, 2003). The book won the prestigious Chicago Folklore Prize.
For more information contact the Center for the Southwest (505) 277-7688, or Carol Anne Brannan at (505) 277-5963. Events are free and open to the public and sponsored by the Maxwell Museum Association, the Center for the Southwest and UNM Press.
Contact: Greg Johnston, (505) 277-1816