history and literary arts
National Latinx Writers Gathering: A Virtual Event for Latinx Writers in all Genres
The second National Latinx Writers Gathering (NLWG) will take place October 14-17, 2021. It is open to any Latinx writer working in any genre. All events for the NLWG will be virtual. Register Here For more information, check out the National Latinx Writers Gathering website. The first-ever National Latinx Writers Gathering, “Sembrando y Soñando,” took place October 16-18, 2020. As a result of the new coronavirus, all weekend events were virtual. The first year of this unprecedented convening of Latinx writers emphasized community-building, connection, and experiential collaboration--determined (more...)
NHCC Book Club: The Taste of Sugar
Live via Zoom or in-person5:30 pm (MDT) Live via Zoom To join, contact Dr. Patricia Marie Perea by emailing her at Patricia.perea@state.nm.us "It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the (more...)
NHCC Book Club: The Wind That Lays Waste
Live via Zoom or in-person5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact Dr. Patricia Marie Perea by emailing her at Patricia.perea@state.nm.us "The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni, his teenage daughter, when their car breaks down. This act of God or fate leads them to the workshop and home of an aging mechanic called Gringo Brauer and a young boy named Tapioca. As a long day passes, curiosity and intrigue transform into an unexpected intimacy (more...)
Mundos de Mestizaje: Torreón Tour
NHCC Torreón 1701 4th street SW, Albuquerque, NM, United States11 am (MST) The National Hispanic Cultural Center is offering a guided tour of the Mundos de Mestizaje fresco by Frederico Vigil twice a week, Thursdays and Fridays at 11 am. Located in the Torreón on the NHCC Campus, Mundos de Mestizaje depicts thousands of years of Hispanic culture, history, and identity. Admission for the tour is $2 and tickets are available for advance purchase below. Tickets can also be purchased in the New Mexico Mutual Welcome Center, depending on availability. Capacity for each tour is limited. A Vision of History through (more...)
NHCC Book Club: Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America
Live via Zoom or in-person5:30 pm (MST) Live via Zoom To join, contact Dr. Patricia Marie Perea by emailing her at Patricia.perea@state.nm.us "In Once I Was You, Maria shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the south side of Chicago and documenting the existential wasteland of immigration detention camps for news outlets that often challenged her work. In these pages, she offers a personal and eye-opening account of how the rhetoric around immigration has not only long informed American attitudes toward outsiders, but also enabled willful negligence and profiteering at (more...)
Emma Pérez Book Reading: “From History to the Future, Mapping Dystopia”
NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-246:00 pm reception 7:00 pm reading The reception and the reading have been moved into the HLA Salon Ortega Join us for a reading featuring author Dr. Emma Pérez, the latest author in the NHCC's historia, idioma, e identidad Series! Dr. Pérez will be reading from her historical novel Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory (2009), as well as Chronicle of a Shifter (2023), a forthcoming novela about a future dystopia in which sex/gender shifters, and Brown, Black, Indigenous people are held in detention camps because they (more...)
Writing Workshop by Emma Pérez: “Emotional Truths: A Queer Chicanx Approach”
NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-2410:00 a.m. Join us for a writing workshop led by author Emma Pérez: “Emotional Truths: A Queer Chicanx Approach” You have an idea for a story. How do you begin? What can you use from your own life experiences to tell your story and bring your character to life? In this workshop, we will experiment with scenes that tap into your emotional truths to write your story. Touching, sincere honesty provides readers with feelings they may link to their own lives even if the story is unfamiliar. (more...)
2022 Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest, featuring Erika L. Sánchez
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM"CANCELLED: We regret to inform you that the 2022 Anaya Lecture has been cancelled upon the request of the speaker. Please join us for a film screening of Carl Franklin's Bless Me, Ultima at the NHCC on Sept. 30 with a pre-lecture introduction by Dr. Gabriel Meléndez. Reception at 6pm, pre-lecture introduction at 6:30, and film screening at 7pm. The film screening is in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima. Free ticketed event; visit https://nhccdev.wpengine.com/event/film-bless-me-ultima/.” 7:00 pm Join us for the the 2022 Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture (more...)
Erika L. Sánchez Poetry Workshop: “Negative Capability and the Imagination”
NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-24"CANCELLED: We regret to inform you that the 2022 Anaya Lecture has been cancelled upon the request of the speaker. Please join us for a film screening of Carl Franklin's Bless Me, Ultima at the NHCC on Sept. 30 with a pre-lecture introduction by Dr. Gabriel Meléndez. Reception at 6pm, pre-lecture introduction at 6:30, and film screening at 7pm. The film screening is in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima. Free ticketed event; visit https://nhccdev.wpengine.com/event/film-bless-me-ultima/.” 11:00 am Following Erika L. Sánchez's reading, head back to the Center for (more...)
Indigenous Borderlands in North America Symposium
NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30This symposium seeks to develop new borderland and border-crossing approaches to continental North America that center Indigenous peoples, homelands, political concerns, and related dynamics – temporally and spatially expanding borderlands frameworks. Bringing historians in strategic conversation with scholars of other disciplines and with Indigenous community members, we ask how cross-disciplinary and community-facing dialogue can advance humanistic knowledge, developing new ways to envision borders, crossings, histories, and futures in contexts of social and environmental change. This event, held in partnership with the University of New Mexico and other (more...)