The Center for the Southwest, within the University of New Mexico Department of History, announces the 2009 Borderlands Lecture Series, four lectures by scholars working in the United States and Mexico. The first lecture combines the work of two Mexican historians, on Thursday, Feb. 5 at 3 p.m. in the Student Union Building Santa Ana rooms A&B.
Lucila del Carmen León Velazco of the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, presents, “Los Indígenas de Baja California a finales de la etapa misional: Una revisión de las Fuentes.”
Martha Ortega Soto of the departmento de filosofia, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Izapalapa present, “Estrategias españolas para la colonización de Alta California y la respuesta de sus nativos.” Both scholars will present their work in Spanish.
For more information on the 2009 Borderlands Lecture Series, or other events sponsored by the Center for the Southwest, call 277-7688, or e-mail: cntrsw@unm.edu.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu