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  • La Canoa: Daniel Webb “The Power and Place of the Apachería in Colonial New Mexico”

    History and Literary Arts Building

    2 pm Please join Daniel Webb as he examines the history of the diverse population of Athapaskan-speaking peoples identified as Apache (Ndé) in the colonial archives of northern New Spain. He will trace the different stages of their migration and territorial expansion across the vast geographical expanse known as the Apachería (the Apaches' ancestral homelands), illustrating their relations with other sovereign Indian nations and Hispano settlers, and the policies that Spain introduced in the eighteenth century to restrict their mobility. Through analysis of a wide range of (more...)

  • National Poetry Month

    History and Literary Arts Building

    Join the NHCC’s History and Literary Arts program for a month of events including widely distributed pocket-size poems (in English and Spanish), poetry readings and book signings (including those associated with the Children’s Bilingual Book Festival), displays, and other events celebrating Latinx poets.  In 2019, for the 100th birthday of Walt Whitman, we will pair several Whitman poems with poems by Latinx writers, creating a “conversation” between poets who never met, but who talk to each other across time. A Night of Poetry April 10, 6 pm (more...)

  • Cultural Responsive Teaching Workshop (Rental)

    Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    Education Building - Classroom 122/124 10 am to 5 pm Cultural responsive teaching encourages educators to allow students to enter the classroom as their authentic selves. Rather than forcing students to code-switch, they are asked about where they come from and to relate that to the course material. The goal is to create an environment where all students, regardless of their physical/mental ability, racial/sexual/gender identity, feel safe. Safe to participate. Safe to engage. And therefore safe to learn. $63.93 or $84.91 for groups I am often the only (more...)

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  • La Canoa: Valerie Rangel “Environmental Policies, Planning, and Cultural Connections of Nuevo México”

    History and Literary Arts Building

    2 pm Please join Valerie Rangel, community planner and environmental planning consultant, as she shares historical research, land use planning, and policy frameworks that shed light on issues of environmental contamination and public health while uplifting the voices of immigrant farm workers, tribal members, environmental and social activists from the communities of Nuevo México. She will focus on the history and contributions of the communities of Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Pueblo of Isleta as well as sacred sites, the Gila River and Rio Grande. Valerie Rangel earned a (more...)

  • Semana Cervantina: Lecture and Discussion “Spain and the Independence of the United States” by Tom Chavez

    NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting

    7 pm Organized by Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque in collaboration with the National Hispanic Cultural Center and the Spanish Resource Center to commemorate the “International Day of the Book” and the “Day of the Spanish Language." “Spain and the Independence of the United States” is a Lecture and discussion group. Historian Dr. Tom Chavez will discuss the making of early U.S. history from Spanish resources, the language of Cervantes. Dr. Chavez will give a 45-minute lecture and there will be a group discussion to talk in detail about (more...)

  • La Canoa: John Mraz “The Braceros Program and the Hermanos Mayo”

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7

    2 pm Please join us as Dr. Mraz examines the Hermanos Mayo, Spanish-Mexican photojournalists whose images of the braceros make up the current NHCC exhibit, Braceros: Photographed by the Hermanos Mayo. The photojournalist collective knew what it meant to emigrate, as their story began during one of the modern world’s great conflagrations: the Spanish Civil War. With the defeat of the Republic in 1939, the Mayo came to Mexico where they worked for more than 40 periodicals, creating an enormous archive of some five million negatives. The (more...)

  • ¡RESILIENCIA! The Experience of Jewish Communities in Spain and the Americas: Lecture & Film

    NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30

    3 pm ¡RESILIENCIA! The Experience of Jewish Communities in Spain and the Americas. Organized by Instituto Cervantes,Casa Sefarad@Nahalat Shalom, Festival Djudeo-Espanyol, National Hispanic Cultural Center. In collaboration with Consulate of Mexico, Red de Juderías de España, Diputación of Lleida, Latin American and Iberian Institute at UNM, Consulate General of Israel in Houston, Jewish Federation of New Mexico, Congregation B´Nai Israel, Congregation Albert, ADL Mountain States Region, New Mexico Humanities Council and Century Automotive, a Mapfre Company. Lectures: 3 pm – 6 pm Lecture: Women of Valor 1. (more...)

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  • Surviving Microaggressions Workshop (Rental)

    Domenici Education Building 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM

    10 am – 5 pm Domenici Education Building, Room 122/124 When you are often the only person who identifies the way you do, entering a room can be extremely uncomfortable. Now imagine that a joke is then made on your behalf. Poking fun at your natural hair, or teasing your personality characteristics because they reject the stereotype associated with your group affiliation. "Not being black enough," "Acting white," or having your native language skills criticized by friends and family are often commonplace. These statements or questions are (more...)

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  • ¡RESILIENCIA! The Experience of Jewish Communities in Spain and the Americas: Lecture & Concert

    Domenici Education Building - Grand Hall

    3 pm ¡RESILIENCIA! The Experience of Jewish Communities in Spain and the Americas. Organized by Instituto Cervantes,Casa Sefarad@Nahalat Shalom, Festival Djudeo-Espanyol, National Hispanic Cultural Center. In collaboration with Consulate of Mexico, Red de Juderías de España, Diputación of Lleida, Latin American and Iberian Institute at UNM, Consulate General of Israel in Houston, Jewish Federation of New Mexico, Congregation B´Nai Israel, Congregation Albert, ADL Mountain States Region, New Mexico Humanities Council and Century Automotive, a Mapfre Company. Lectures: 3 pm – 6 pm Lecture: “DNA and New Mexico: (more...)

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  • Migrantes, Mexico and the United States: Lessons from History and Current Challenges

    NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-7

    2 pm Millions of Mexicans have migrated to the United States over the past 120 years—several million without documents and subject to deportation since the 1970s, and over two million agricultural workers known as braceros in the years after World War II. But net Mexican migration has virtually stopped since the great recession of 2008, and has been replaced by Central Americans fleeing political violence migrating through Mexico and across the border into the United States. At the same time, the United States has adopted a much (more...)