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Tlamahuizolli Huan Tlacualli | Nahuatl Movie And Nahua Food, Latin American And Iberian Institute

LAII Events

Friday, October 31, 2025 | 03:30 pm

Latin American and Iberian Institute (801 Yale Blvd NE) | Zoom

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Join the Nahuatl Club for Tlamahuizolli huan Tlacualli, a Nahuatl movie and Nahua food!

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This event is free and open to the public.

New Mexico Snap-Ed College Food Insecurity Report, Belinda E. Vicuña, Yvonnie V. Baik, Elena E. Martinez, Mahtab Soleimani, Camille R. Velarde, Theresa H. Cruz

Reports & Documents

In New Mexico, 58% of college students experience some form of food insecurity. The College Food Insecurity Project—conducted by the University of New Mexico’s Division of Prevention and Population Sciences with support from the New Mexico Health Care Authority and USDA SNAP-Ed—examined how campus food pantries address student food needs across the state. Using a mixed-methods design, the study included semi-structured interviews with food pantry coordinators and staff at 13 institutions of higher education, on-site assessments using the Nutrition Environment Food Pantry Assessment Tool Plus (NEFPAT+), and content analysis of 15 college food pantry websites.

Findings revealed that campus …

Bate-Papo | Portuguese Language Conversation Hours, Learning Language Center

LAII Events

Thursday, October 30, 2025 | 04:00 pm

Learning Language Center

Ortega Hall

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Come practice your Portuguese language skills and enjoy Brazilian food and culture with friends!

Notes:

This event is free and open to the public.

Día De Los Muertos, Latin American And Iberian Institute, Chicana And Chicano Studies

LAII Events

Thursday, October 30, 2025 | 12:00 pm - 03:00 pm

Latin American and Iberian Institute (801 Yale Blvd NE) & Chicana and Chicano Studies (1829 Sigma Chi Rd. NE)

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Join the LAII and CCS to celebrate the Day of the Dead with fun activities and community altars at both locations, a food truck, and more!

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This event is free and open to the public.

Power Sharing Measures: Can Tools Used To Secure Negative Peace Help To Foster Positive Peace?, Dr. Caroline Hartzell

LAII Events

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 | 03:30 pm

335 Ortega Hall

What Settlements that call for warring parties to share power in the aftermath of a civil war have become, until recently, the most common means of ending a civil war. Skepticism regarding these agreements ranges from questions about their ability to help stop the killing – i.e., to secure a negative peace – to their effects on the quality of the peace in the aftermath of a civil war. This lecture will engage with power-sharing settlements’ effects on both negative and positive peace by focusing on the duration of the …

Navigating Solo Librarianship In A Health Sciences Setting, Emily Roberts

Posters and Presentations

Solo librarianship can be both rewarding and isolating, especially in a specialized health sciences environment where the librarian is responsible for a full spectrum of services.  I will discuss my experiences of solo librarianship at one of only a handful of special libraries dedicated to developmental disabilities in the United States. This unique setting required balancing niche subject expertise, information literacy instruction, and user advocacy, all while navigating limited resources and institutional visibility.

I will discuss the importance of leveraging cross-departmental relationships, partnering with broader library networks, and explore how to advocate for library services in a clinical and research-focused …

Developing An Information Literacy Instruction Survey For Nursing Students, Emily Roberts

Posters and Presentations

Objective:

This project aims to develop a survey to assess the experience of nursing students across various programs with information literacy (IL) instruction. In addition to collecting data on instructional exposure, the survey will gather students' self-assessed proficiency in core IL skills, with particular attention to identifying misinformation and recognizing personal bias. A key objective is to explore what relationships may exist between self-perceived IL competency and factors such as previous IL instruction, educational background, work experience, and the recency of instruction. The poster will outline the planning and development process involved in creating and piloting the survey.

Methods:

The …

Nahuatl Club: Ilhuitl (Halloween), Latin American And Iberian Institute

LAII Events

Friday, October 24, 2025 | 03:30 pm

Latin American and Iberian Institute (801 Yale Blvd NE) & Zoom

Join us for Nahuatl Club: Ilhuitl (Halloween) at the LAII or on Zoom. Everyone is welcome! No previous experience with the language is required.

This is a hybrid event. Please see the flyer for the Zoom link.

Jar Seminar: Iconohistory By Dr. Severin Fowles, Dr. Severin Fowles

LAII Events

Friday, October 24 at 12:00 PM

Anthropology 248

The history of colonialism in the American West is not just the story of how European people, animals, and technologies invaded Indigenous worlds but also of how these things were engaged, redeployed, countered, rejected, and, in some cases, embraced by native communities. In this paper, I look beyond the horses, guns, germs, and steel that have dominated materialist analyses of the colonial encounter to consider the circulation of images—or more precisely, the circulation of new understandings of what images are and how they function. My focus is on the “Biographic Tradition,” an …

Journal Of Anthropological Research (Jar) Distinguished Lecture | Image Capture: War And Iconography In Colonial New Mexico, Dr. Severin Fowles

LAII Events

Thursday, October 23, 2025 | 05:30 pm

Hibben 105

The history of colonialism in the American West is not just the story of how European people, animals, and technologies invaded Indigenous worlds but also of how these things were engaged, redeployed, countered, rejected, and, in some cases, embraced by native communities. In this paper, I look beyond the horses, guns, germs, and steel that have dominated materialist analyses of the colonial encounter to consider the circulation of images—or more precisely, the circulation of new understandings of what images are and how they function. My focus is on the “Biographic Tradition,” …

How To Dump Dewey: Developing Your Own Classification Scheme, Emily Roberts

Posters and Presentations

As librarians, we frequently encounter challenges with classification systems such as Dewey Decimal because they do not always meet the specific needs of our collections, spaces, and patrons. This presentation will delve into creating customized classification schemes for public, school, and special libraries to organize materials better and streamline staff and patron use. I will provide examples of various tools, strategies, and methods for altering or replacing traditional classification systems. Additionally, rationales for creating your own classification scheme and the pros and cons of doing so will be explored. UNM’s Center for Development and Disability special library will be used …

Día De Los Muertos En Latinoamérica Y España, María José Hidalgo, Mayte Villa

LAII Events

Únete a nosotros para aprender sobre el origende la tradición del Día de los Muertos y tradiciones similares en Latinoamérica y España. Además, haremos una actividad didáctica sobre autores fallecidos de estas regiones, comeremos pan de muerto y chocolate caliente, haremos calaveritas de azúcar y visitaremos los altares en el National Hispanic Cultural Center.

RSVP here by October 9, 2025.

Romances Tradicionales, Tomás Lozano

LAII Events

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 | 01:30 pm

UNM Keller Hall

The UNM Department of Spanish & Portuguese’ Resolanas Program and the Department of Music’ Music from the Americas Concert Series present Hispanic singer, musician, and scholar Tomás Lozano at UNM’s Keller Hall.

Lozano will showcase his vast knowledge and skillful interpretation of “romances,” a type of short literary composition, epic-lyrical in nature, which narrate a story by singing or reciting it. They emerged from oral storytelling and became popular in the 15th century, forming collections called romanceros. Wherever Spanish or Castilian was spoken, romances were sung, from Tierra del Fuego …

Sucia Life In G-Angle, Dr. Deb Vargas

LAII Events

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 | 03:00 pm - 04:30 pm

Latin American and Iberian Institute (801 Yale Blvd NE)

Bobo Room | Hodgins Hall

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This talk explores Madeline Alviso Ramirez's photographic theory of the "G-Angel" though her renditions of "Chola-homegirls." Vargas' forthcoming book Sucialogy will expand on how these images provide sucialogical lessons on how these women create queer life forces in defiance of radical capitalism, assimilation, and gender conformity.

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This event is free and open to the public.

10-21-25 Bor Hsc Committee Meeting Minutes, Patricia Serna

HSC Committee (A subcommittee of the UNM Board of Regents)

10-21-25 BOR HSC Committee Meeting Minutes

The Field Research Grant Colloquium, Latin American And Iberian Institute

LAII Events

Tuesday, October 21, 2025 | 02:00 pm

Latin American and Iberian Institute (801 Yale Blvd NE)

801 Yale Blvd NE (campus building #165)

Join the LAII for a panel event where former field research grant recipients discuss their research projects.

Graduate students can benefit significantly from the opportunity to conduct field research in Latin America, where they combine practice with theory and connect their scholarship to lived experiences or archival data. To make field research more accessible to students, each spring the LAII offers field research grants (FRGs) to graduate students across campus.

All potential applicants are encouraged to attend. …

Building Bridges With Mexico, Dr. Lisa L. Munro

LAII Events

Monday, October 20, 2025 | 09:00 am - 10:30 am

Latin American and Iberian Institute (801 Yale Blvd NE)

801 Yale Blvd NE (campus building #165)

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Dr. Lisa L. Munro will be visiting the LAII to learn more about LAII faculty research and teaching connected to Mexico and to explore how UNM’s Global Education Office can help build connections and collaborations. Come to this meet and greet to discuss your current or upcoming research in Mexico, opportunities for student mobility and exchange, and other topics!

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This event is free and open to the public.

Colombia Film Club, Language Learning Center | Movie Room

LAII Events

Join the Colombia Film Club for the showing of “La gente de la universal” in the LLC movie room.

Tangible And Design Assistance In Historic Preservation Courses To Assist Communities In The Recuperation Of Their Existing Built Cultural Resources In New Mexico, Francisco Uviña-Contreras

Faculty Publications

The presentation proposed for the NCBDS 41 Conference to be hosted at the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) Department at the University of New Mexico (UNM) concerns the arduous work in the Historic Preservation and Regionalism (HP+R) Program in this institution. This significant opportunity to present courses in the HP+R Program aims to "exchange and disseminate information and ideas concerning preservation education and its relationship to community engagement and its connections to its historical past." This issue is particularly relevant in the context of the NCBDS 41 Conference, which touches on aspects of the "Pedagogy in Cultural Heritage through …

Nahuatl Club: Classic Nahuatl Workshop, Latin American And Iberian Institute

LAII Events

Friday, October 17, 2025 | 03:30 pm

Latin American and Iberian Institute (801 Yale Blvd NE) & Zoom

Join us for Nahuatl Club: Classic Nahuatl Workshop at the LAII or on Zoom. Everyone is welcome! No previous experience with the language is required.

This is a hybrid event. Please see the flyer for the Zoom link.

Bate-Papo | Portuguese Language Conversation Hours, Learning Language Center

LAII Events

Thursday, October 16, 2025 | 04:00 pm

Learning Language Center

Ortega Hall

Come practice your Portuguese language skills and enjoy Brazilian food and culture with friends!

The Organizational Complexity Of Civil Wars, Dr. Jessica Braithwaite

LAII Events

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 | 03:30 pm

Reading Room (third floor) | Ortega Hall

This talk will begin by discussing how myriad types of organizations in society shape the onset and dynamics of civil war. Drawing on insights from the Foundations of Rebel Group Emergence dataset, I highlight how varying structural and sociopolitical conditions facilitate the rise of rebel groups from different types of pre-existing organizations. We then turn attention to how these organizational roots continue to shape interactions between combatants, as well as civilians, during the course of the conflict. Although the scholarship on civil wars predominantly focuses on …

Integrating Zotero With Your Writing: From Research To Publication, Evelyn Wang

HSLIC Faculty and Staff Instructional Resources

This workshop presentation offers a comprehensive guide to using Zotero for research and academic writing. It covers installation and configuration, efficient reference collection, organization through collections and tags, citation insertion, bibliography generation in word processors, PDF management (including annotation and full-text search), and advanced features such as collaboration tools, custom citation styles, and ZoteroBib. The session is designed to enhance researchers’ and writers’ efficiency in managing references throughout the research and publication process.

Balloon Fiesta | Mexican Pavilion, Balloon Fiesta Park

LAII Events

Thursday, October 09, 2025 | 08:00 am

Balloon Fiesta Park

Check out the Mexico Pavilion at Balloon Fiesta Park! This pavilion will be open at Ballon Fiesta on October 9th and 10th.

Enhancing Evidence-Based Practice: Board Vitals Resource Integration In Clinical Learning, Evelyn Wang

HSLIC Faculty and Staff Instructional Resources

This presentation was delivered at the Evidence-Based Practice Council Monthly Meeting, focusing on integration of Board Vitals, an online resource for medical and nursing exam preparation, into clinical learning. It highlights practical use of Board Vitals for clinician professional development and features resources for nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacy, dental hygiene, radiology, USMLE, NCLEX, and more. The session covers access procedures, featured study materials, and library service links for advanced practice and nursing exam preparedness at UNM HSLIC.

Staying Engaged In A Divided World Conference | Albuquerque 2025, University Of New Mexico

LAII Events

Friday, October 03, 2025 | 08:45 am - 02:00 pm

UNM Sub Ballrooms

This conference will bring together local organizations involved in citizen diplomacy, cultural and educational exchanges, and international trade promotion.

Students can attend for free, but they must register here.

Learn more here.

Nahuatl Club: Poetry, Latin American And Iberian Institute

LAII Events

Friday, October 03, 2025 | 03:30 pm

Latin American and Iberian Institute (801 Yale Blvd NE) & Zoom

Join us for Nahuatl Club: Poetry at the LAII or on Zoom. Everyone is welcome! No previous experience with the language is required.

This is a hybrid event. Please see the flyer for the Zoom link.

Colombian Film Club, Language Learning Center | Movie Room

LAII Events

Check out Colombian Film Club's screening of El olvido que seremos at 2:30 PM at the Learning Language Center Movie Room.

Bate-Papo | Portuguese Language Conversation Hours, Learning Language Center

LAII Events

Thursday, October 02, 2025 | 04:00 pm

Learning Language Center

Ortega Hall

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Come practice your Portuguese language skills and enjoy Brazilian food and culture with friends!

Notes:

This event is free and open to the public.

Las Open House | Learn About The Ma Program In Latin American Studies, Latin American And Iberian Institute

LAII Events

Thursday, October 02, 2025 | 02:30 pm - 03:30 pm

Latin American and Iberian Institute (801 Yale Blvd NE)

801 Yale Blvd NE (campus building #165)

Come visit the LAII for an open house where you can learn more about the MA program in Latin American Studies here at UNM.

MALAS alumni teach in K-12, higher education, and gap year programs. They work in law firms, museums, libraries, businesses, non-profits, and government in the U.S. and Latin America. In government & non-profits, they address affordable housing, poverty, refugee asylum, private-public tech partnerships, web communications, community, healthcare, community planning, and more.