The Chicana/o Studies Department is hosting the second Critical Mystery Studies Symposium on November 16-18th. We’ve got some great keynote talks and a lot of graduate student papers in the mix! Check out the schedule here. We ask that you please register for this event using this link. If you have family members or friends who you think might be interested, please send them the registration link as well. Zoom link will be available here. To spread the word, we are attaching posters below which you can use for your social media! We've included images that are also connected to Speculative Detective Agency (which you become part of when you take the Mysteries of New Mexico class). 

Event Information: 
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Bobo Room, Hodgin Hall

9:00AM - 5:00PM
November 16-17, 2026
November 18, 2026 ONLINE

Zoom Information: 
Link 
Meeting ID: 954 1715 5143
Passcode: 790442

Symposium Keynote Talks: 

• November 16 (in-person)
  "Robert Langdon Exposed!! The Shocking Truth behind Dan Brown's Conspiracy Fiction" by Derek Lee
• November 17(in-person)
  "Becoming Llaronas: Walking and Wailing toward Healing" by Ana R. Alonso-Minutti
• November 18 (online)
  "Spiritual Planets: Nation-Building and Other Worlds in Nineteenth-Century Mexico" by Maria del Pilar Blanco
• November 18 (online)
  "Emotional Atmospheres for Sale: The Making of Transylvania Dread from Dracula to the 'World's Most Haunted Forest'" by Madalina Meirosu
  
  

We hope to see you there! 
--TRUST THE MYSTERY--