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Archives, Exhibits, and Historic (Web) Sites The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture has opened “Comic Art Indigène,” which will run through 4 January 2009. The exhibit is a journey into mystery in which Indian artists articulate identity, politics, and culture using the unique dynamics of comic art. The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is located at 710 Camino Lejo in Santa Fe. For more information, call 505-827-6463 or visit the website: www.indianartsandculture.org. The Hubbard Museum of the American West announces “Boomed, Busted and Bought Out Again: A History of Mining in New Mexico.” Featuring photographs and artifacts, the exhibit tells the story of mining in New Mexico from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The exhibit closes 4 January 2009. The Hubbard Museum of the American West is located at 841 Highway 70 West in Ruidoso. For more information, call 575-378-4142 or the visit the website: www.hubbardmuseum.org. “From the Railroad to Route 66: The Native American Curio Trade in New Mexico” has opened at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian. The exhibit, which runs through 19 April 2009, examines the production of curios and the business of the trade. The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian is located at 704 Camino Lejo in Santa Fe. For more information, call 505-982-4636 or visit the website: www.wheelwright.org.
New Digitized Collections Almost 600 historical photographs of campus buildings, landscapes, and interiors were recently added to the UNM University Archives digital collections. The photographs, ranging in date from the turn of the century through the 1980s, are available online at the University Archives website. An additional 60 photos documenting Lobo sports teams - including the 1901 Lobo Women's Basketball Team and 1933 Women's Tennis Team - have also been added to the University Archives' online collection. Researchers interested in the Southwest and the Mountain West should visit the Rocky Mountain Online Archive (RMOA). Containing resources and finding aids for archival collections in New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming, this website includes listings from twenty institutions. http://rmoa.unm.edu. Calls for Papers 2009 New Mexico History Conference “On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Multicultural American West” http://smu.edu/swcenter/FamiliesinWestCFP.htm Proposals for scholarly papers dealing with the history of the family and kinship in the American West are solicited for a symposium co-sponsored by the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University (SMU), the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles, and the Center for the Southwest at the University of New Mexico. An initial meeting will be held at a site to be determined in New Mexico in the Fall of 2009, to be followed in Spring 2010 by a conference at SMU in Dallas, Texas. We expect a university press will publish the papers as a volume edited by conference organizers David Wallace Adams and Crista DeLuzio. Aspects of family and kinship in relation to these questions and themes may include: movement and settlement; courtship and marriage; birthing and babies; gender roles and relations; childhood (education, work, play, childrearing); diverse definitions of family among various racial, ethnic, and religious groups; intercultural and same-sex marriages; family violence; families in peril (slavery, orphans, poverty); families and public policies; families in the urban West; and depictions of the family in the arts and popular culture. We welcome submissions from scholars of any rank – from graduate students to full professor – who are eager to contribute substantively to what promises to be an exciting and important academic endeavor. Please send a CV and description of an original project to Crista DeLuzio by September 15, 2008. The description, of up to five pages, should both describe the research and explain how it serves the goals of the conference. Eight to ten papers will be chosen for the conferences and resulting volume. Queries can be directed either organizer: * David Wallace Adams, Department of History, Cleveland State University, 2121 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44115. d.adams@csuohio.edu 216-687-4577 Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium: Rush to the Rockies! The 1859 Pikes Peak or Bust Gold Rush. The 2009 Symposium commemorates the sesquicentennial of the 1859 Gold Rush to the Rockies. Research papers are encouraged on the indigenous people of the area, the early settlement of the region, and the resulting impacts on modern society. Topics could include journeys west, pioneer life, economic and ecological effects, and any other imaginative connections. Papers for presentation at the Saturday, June 6, 2009 Symposium are being sought for consideration. Sponsored by the Special Collections of the Pikes Peak Library District, Colorado Springs, CO. Chris Nicholl, Symposium Co-Chair This year’s Conference of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies (PCCLAS) will be held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 7–8 November 2008. The conference will bring together scholars, educators, graduate, undergraduate, and high school students, and community members interested in Latin American Studies. Papers from all areas of the social sciences, humanities and the arts and/or cross-disciplinary studies, and relating to Latin American/Latino/a Studies are invited. All topics are welcome. Selected papers will be published in the Conference’s Proceedings. Proposals for single papers and complete sessions are welcome. Proposals to lead open forums, discussion groups, teaching workshops; to set up booths for graduate or study abroad programs; and/or to screen films or project other media are also welcome. Email your submissions to the 2008 PCCLAS Program Chair, Robert Kirkland, at pcclas2008@cmc.edu. Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged via email within forty-eight hours. You may also send your submission via regular mail to: Robert Kirkland, Department of History, Claremont McKenna College, 850 Columbia Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711-6420. For more information, visit the PCCLAS website at http://pcclas.org/. Deadline for Submissions: Postmarked or emailed by 29 September 2008. The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) invites abstracts (papers and posters) for the Program of the 69th Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, NM, March 17-21, 2009. The theme of the Program is “Global Challenge, Local Action: Ethical Engagement, Partnerships and Practice.” The Society is a multi-disciplinary association that focuses on problem definition and resolution. We welcome papers from all disciplines. The deadline for abstract submission is October 15, 2008. For additional information on the theme, abstract size/format, and the meeting, please visit our web page (www.sfaa.net/sfaa2009.html.
Calendar of Events 11 August 2008: Pulitzer Prize-wining author Martin Sherwin will deliver this year's 20–22 August: New Mexico State University is hosting the Domenici Public Policy Conference 18–20 September The Santa Fe Trail Association’s annual Rendezvous will be in Larned, Kansas. The theme is “The Evolution of Freighting on the Santa Fe Trail.” For more information, visit the website: www.santafetrail.org/. 4 October The Sun Mountain Gathering will take place at Museum Hill in Santa Fe. This festival features entertainment on Milner Plaza, and hands-on activities including traditional games, spear throwing, and pottery and jewelry making. Demonstrations of ancient technologies will include arrow making, flint knapping, weaving and dyeing, pottery firing, and cooking with hot rocks and in micaceous pots. For more information, visit the website: www.indianartsandculture.org/events/. 22–25 October The Western History Association will hold its forty-eighth annual conference at the Salt Lake City Marriot City Center Hotel. For more information, visit the website: http://www.umsl.edu/~wha/.
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