College of Arts & Sciences

The time has come for the University of New Mexico to again present a dose of curandismo. The two week summer course in traditional medicine is a summer staple and its popularity continues to grow. Taught by Dr. Eliseo “Cheo” Torres, the ...

Nationally syndicated cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz speaks at the University of New Mexico on Thursday, Sept. 26, from 5:30 - 7 p.m. in the Honda Auditorium, located in George Pearl Hall, corner of Central and Cornell NE.  Join Chicana and Chicano Studies, ...

Reynaldo Macias presents,"Entre el Dicho y el Hecho: Xican@ Studies in 50 Years," on Thursday, Feb. 28 from 4 - 5:30 p.m. in the Ortega Hall Reading Room 335 on the University of New Mexico campus. Katarina Sandoval, Principal of South Valley Academy and ...

The University of New Mexico Department of American Studies hosts a two-day symposium, "Exhibiting Latino Popular Religious Traditions: New Mexico in a Transnational Context" Friday, March 1 from 1–7 p.m. at Interdisciplinary Film & Digital Media, UNM ...

Cynthia Casas, visiting assistant professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, presents, "The Mexican Quetzalcoátl (The Feathered Serpent): Cultural Hero and Modern Aesthetic" from noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 19 at the Latin American & ...

Irene VasquezUNM's Chicana and Chicano Studies program strives to provide students with an opportunity to educate themselves in the area of multi-ethnicity in a variety of national and transnational contexts. With a strong Latino presence in the ...

Communication and collaboration can often be as difficult to organize in a large university as it is in establishing agreements between nations. At UNM, El Centro de la Raza, the Hispanic student support department; Chicano/Hispano/Mexicano Studies, the ...

Reading a Spanish Colonial epic from a Chicano perspective is the focus of a talk on Wednesday, March 28, at noon in Hibben Center, Room 105. The epic is Villagrá's Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610; and the speaker is Genero Padilla.Padilla offers a ...

Andrew Offenburger, the Richard E. Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar, presents, "When the American West Turned South: Development and Dispossession in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands," Wednesday, Oct. 26 at noon in the Waters Room in the UNM Zimmerman ...

Chicano Hispano Mexicano Studies, the College of Arts & Sciences, the Office of the Provost, and American Studies Department announce that Irene Vasquez has been selected to serve as director of CHMS and associate professor of American Studies, effective ...