The Spring 2010 History Department Colloquium still has three speakers left, with the next scheduled for tomorrow featuring UNM Distinguished Professor Linda Hall.
The colloquium features discussions of pre-circulated papers, which can be obtained two weeks prior to the event through Zimmerman Library’s e-reserves, course: History 999, password:unmhistory.
All events are held in the History Commons Room in Mesa Vista Hall from 2-4 p.m. Faculty and graduate students from all disciplines are welcome to submit papers for consideration. Refreshments will be served.
On Friday, April 16, Distinguished Professor Linda Hall of the UNM History Department presents a chapter from her current book project on Mexican film star Dolores del Rio.
On Friday, April 23, Kelly O’Neill, Department of History, Harvard University, presents, “Our Women for Your Salt: The Structure and Significance of the Black Sea Slave Trade, 1774-1900”
On Friday, April 30, Maria Lane, UNM Department of Geography, presents, “Water Technology, Discourse, and the Courtroom: New Mexicans Resist the Reclamation Era.”
The colloquium is supported by the Regents’ Speaker Endowment, the College of Arts and Sciences Speakers Fund, the Center for the Southwest, the Feminist Research Institute, the Latin American and Iberian Institute, International Studies and the Department of History.
For more information contact Eliza Ferguson, eeferg@unm.edu
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