The Center for the Southwest invites you to join us this Thursday (March 28) for our annual Horn Lecture in Western History and Culture. 

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Historian Juliana Barr to Deliver the 2024 C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lecture

The Center for the Southwest at the University of New Mexico is pleased to announce the 2024 C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lecture in Western History and Culture, which will take place Thursday, March 28, 2024, from 5:00 to 6:30 pm in UNM Student Union Building, Ballroom C. 

The lecture will be given by Dr. Juliana Barr, Associate Professor of History at Duke University. Barr’s research explores the dynamics of Native-European relations in North America, especially as they relate to questions of gender, political economy, and Native sovereignty. She is the author of Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands (2007), and co-editor of Contested Spaces of Early America (2014) and Why You Can’t Teach U.S. History without American Indians (2015). She is currently completing a book entitled La Dama Azul: Native Stories of Colonialism.

This event is FREE and OPEN to the public with a reception to follow, from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm in the SUB Navajo Lounge.

For more information about the 2024 C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lecture, or other events sponsored by the Center for the Southwest, email us at cntrsw@unm.edu.  You can also follow the Center on Facebook (Center for the Southwest) and Instagram (@cntrsw_unm).