Upcoming Events

Lobos y Lowriders

Sep 18, 2024 - 11:00am - Sep 18, 2024 - 02:00pm

Cornell Mall, UNM Main Campus

Lobos y Lowriders is a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration that brings cultura to campus!

Join us on September 18th from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm at UNM Cornell Mall to view and engage with local lowriders.

Enjoy food from Nena’s food truck and entertainment!

Grand Opening of the Casita's Backyard

Sep 20, 2024 - 06:30pm - Sep 20, 2024 - 09:00pm

1829 Sigma Chi Rd., UNM Main Campus

The Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies invites you to the grand opening of our casita’s backyard! This event is free to the public to celebrate and commemorate the history of CCS and SHRI in a renovated shared space of Chicana/o/x educational and cultural accomplishments.

Book Talk - Dr. Laura Belmonte

Sep 26, 2024 - 12:00pm - Sep 26, 2024 - 02:00pm

Frank Waters Room, Zimmerman Library

Please join us to celebrate Dr. Laura Belmonte’s inaugural book, Borderland Brutalities: Violence and Resistance Along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture published through UNM Press. We invite you on September 26^th from 12-2pm at the Zimmerman Library’s Frank Waters Room to dialogue with Dr. Belmonte and learn more about her work.

Book summary: In Borderland Brutalities, Laura Elena Belmonte analyzes how border violence is perpetuated and sanctioned by private corporations as well as the US and Mexican governments and how this violence is represented through border literature and cultural production. Belmonte examines literature, art, and film produced by artists living on both sides of the border to explore how they portray this violence and how they use their art to actively resist it. This important analysis of the border will be required reading for decades to come and lays the groundwork for additional studies on borderland violence and resistance.