Lecture
Reading & Booksigning: Robert Con Davis-Undiano, Mestizos Come Home! Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity
History and Literary Arts Building6 pm to 8 pm Join author Robert Con Davis-Undiano for a reading from his recently released book, Mestizos Come Home! Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity. Davis-Undiano’s landmark book details the profound ways in which Mexican Americans have contributed to U.S. culture since the 1960s. It addresses the need for Mexican Americans and Latinos to stop apologizing for being in the U.S., as well as the need for mainstream culture to stop making them the “enemy.” The intent of the work is to encourage Latinos to (more...)
Henry Jake Foreman: “Changing Tides in Indigenous Arts and Community–Indigenous Models for Entrepreneurial Development
NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-711 am This talk is part of the educational programming related to People Powered: New Mexicans and Social Movements. The fourth in our People-Powered (New Mexicans in Social Movements) Series features Henry Jake Foreman. Henry Foreman uses traditional, Indigenous models of knowledge production along with contemporary practices. He is the founder of the Karuna Colectiva that mentors youth in Albuquerque. Indigenous methodologies and epistemologies guide his philosophical and research approaches to working with youth and communities to promote the health of our biosphere. He recently graduated with his Masters (more...)
ABQ Latin Dance Fest Lecture Series: Cuban Music: Beyond Buena Vista Social Club
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting6: 30 pm PRESENTER: Daybert Linares Díaz SYNOPSIS: In 1999, the release of a documentary “Buena Vista Social Club,” which depicted the process of recording the album of the same title two years prior, became a worldwide phenomenon. After decades of partial musical obscurity due to the U.S. embargo on the island, the international audience was once again regaled with the sounds of a pre-1959, pre-communist Cuba. For many U.S. people, Buena Vista Social Club signified a return to those times, a memory of a “lost” island (more...)
La Canoa: Mulattos of Cochiti: Caste in Spanish New Mexico
NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-72 pm Please join Deputy State Historian Rob Martinez, as he examines the role of racial mixing, identity, and the categorizing of humans living in Spanish Colonial New Mexico. The approach will be through the lens of the casta, or caste system. Historical research, genealogy, and DNA all converge to provide a clearer understanding of Hispano roots in New Mexico, as well as in Latino-Meso America and Hispanic Europe. Deputy State Historian Rob Martinez is a native New Mexican born and raised in Albuquerque. A graduate of (more...)
Alejandro Mendiaz, “Speaking Truth to Power: UndocuTalks”
History and Literary Arts Building11 am This talk is part of the educational programming related to People Powered: New Mexicans and Social Movements. UndocuTalks is a podcast that was developed as a virtual space where undocumented youth can independently share news, knowledge, and culture with other undocumented youth and allies. Alejandro Mendiaz is a co-founder of UndocuTalks and a host of the UndocuNews segment that aims to share important information with our immigrant communities in a healthy dose of digestible pieces of information that combat the constant stressful bombardment of immigration-related, sensationalized news. (more...)
TEDxABQ Imagine Albuquerque
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM6 pm Friday 1 pm Saturday Celebrate the ideas, people, and culture of New Mexico. New TEDx talks by remarkable speakers, memorable performances, and one-of-a-kind audience experiences. TEDxABQ is a gathering of minds and community with new ideas and original thinking in every discipline. One Day Ticket: Friday—Adults $35, Students $25 & One Day VIP ticket $105 Saturday—Adults $55, Students $35 & One Day VIP ticket $105 Two Day Ticket: VIP Ticket—$155 The title, content, photos/images and description for this event were provided to the NHCC by the organization (more...)
NHCC Writers present Short Mystery Fiction
NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-246 pm Short Mystery Fiction: Featuring Nancy Martira, Maurice Moya, David Sanchez and Deyonne Sandoval. Join us for a reading by writers completing the NHCC’s eight-week “Short Mystery Fiction” writing workshop. Each writer will share an excerpt from a mystery fiction piece in-progress. All are welcome to celebrate our growing community of NHCC writers. Free
Monthly Speakers Program for the Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of NM (Rental)
NHCC-BOD-January-2020-Meeting10:30 am Suzanne Stamatov will present, “Colonial New Mexico Families: Community, Church and State 1692-1800.” The title is from her book of the same name, which will be available after the meeting. In villages scattered across the northern reaches of Spain's New World Empire, remote from each other and from the centers of power, family mattered. In this book Suzanne M. Stamatov skillfully relies on both ecclesiastical and civil records to discover how families formed and endured during this period of contention in the eighteenth century. Family (more...)
Demetria Martinez, “Sanctuary: Readings & Recollections”
History and Literary Arts Building6 pm This talk is part of the educational programming related to People Powered: New Mexicans and Social Movements. Martinez will read from her novel, Mother Tongue, and talk about the 1988 conspiracy in connection with allegedly transporting two Salvadoran refugees into the United States. That historical moment speaks to conditions, today, in the struggle to stand with our immigrant brothers and sisters. Demetria Martinez has written poetry, essays, and novels. She co-authored a book on immigration reform with former Oklahoma Senator, Fred Harris. She was honored with an international Latino (more...)
La Canoa: The Women of Local 890 and the Empire Mine Strike
NHCC-Newsletter-August-26–September-72 pm Please join Professor Kells as she examines "embodied rhetoric" in the Local 890 chapter of the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers of Hanover, New Mexico, who staged one of the nation’s most effective groundbreaking strikes near Silver City from October 1950 to January 1952. The grievances of the Empire Zinc workers included racial discrimination in job duties and pay, toxic work environments, and inequitable power sharing between labor and management. The dramatic showdown, resulting in incarceration of forty-five women, seventeen children, and (more...)