2021-2022 Events
CSMS Guest lecture on Public Health in Mexico
AC alumna and CEO of the Clínica Responsible Operativa in Mexico City, Marlene Llópiz, will present on medicine and public health education in Mexico.
September 21 @ 11 a.m.
IDEA Center 127
2020-2021 Events
Dia De Muertos/Day of the Dead
Altar & Memorial
Friday, October 30-Friday, November 6
9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Wright Campus Center – Johnson Gallery (second floor)
Summer Internship Presentations
Tuesday, October 20
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Zoom
2019-2020 Events
CSMS Spring Lecture
Tuesday, February 25
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Wright Campus Center, Room 231
Guest Speaker: Dr. Andrea Easley Morris '95
Association Professor of Spanish
Louisiana State University
"21st Century Migrant and Tourist Mobilities:
Dominican and Cuban Encounters Abroad"
Dia De Muertos/Day of the Dead
Altar & Memorial
November 1
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Dia de Muertos Display
November 4-8
9:00 a.m.-4:30p.m.
Ida Green Projects Gallery
CSMS Summer Internship Presentations
Tuesday, October 22
11:00 a.m. in Wright Campus Center Room 231
CSMS 2019 Fall Symposium
Tuesday-Thursday, September 17 -19
2018-2019 Events
CSMS Summer Internships
Deadline: March 4, 2019
Calavera Contest Winners
1st Place: Jayna Patel
2nd Place: Christina Croninger
3rd Place: Abbigal Maeng
Honorable Mention: Erika Sarmiento
Day of the Dead Performance
Erik Dr Luna, artist
Román Iván Gómez, actor
November 5, 2018
CSMS Summer Internship Presentations
Tuesday, October 16
11:00 a.m. in Wright Campus Center Room 231
Categories: Skull Art, Poetry in Spanish and English
Cash Prizes Awarded
Deadline for Submission: October 23, 2018 by 3:00 p.m.
2017-2018 Events
CSMS Summer Internships
Info Session, Monday, February 19
Calavera Contest Awards Ceremony
Thursday, November 2
Calavera Contest Winners Announced
Novemeber 14
Calavera Art & Poetry Contest
Deadline - Wednesday, October 25
CSMS Summer Internship Presentations
Tuesday, October 24
2016-2017 Events
Spanish Poetry Contest Winners
Awards presented
Lecture Series
Dr. Margaret Field
San Diego State University
Department of American Indian Studies
"Yuman Peoples of Baja California: Languages and Oral Traditions"
February 15, 2017
CSMS Summer Internships
Deadline - March 6
Calavera Contest Winners 2016
Monday, November 14
Internship Presentations
Tuesday, October 25
2014-2015 Events
Visit of the Spanish Playwright
Gracia Morales
Stage Readings - February 9
Presentation of La Grieta - February 10
Friday, December 5
The internationally renowned author of more than twenty books and one of the most highly anthologized of Latina writers presents:
“THE BORDER CROSSED US: LATINO VOICES IN THE US”'
CSMS Fall Symposium
Mesoamerica and Beyond: A Look at Origins and Lifeworlds
Wednesday, October 22
Robert Kruger: "Seeds of a Civilization: Mesoamerica and the Mighty Corn Plant at its Heart"
Thursday, October 23
Ivan Marquez: "Philosophical Reflections on Indigenous Mesoamerican, South American and Afr0-Caribbean Lifeworlds"'
2013-2014 Events
Dr. Gaspar Real presents:
Social Networks, Innovation, Tradition, and Small Businesses in Rural Mexico: An Anthropological Study
Thursday, April 17, 2014
"El México actual: Una visión a vuelo de pájaro"
Presented by Javier Diez on Thursday, March 6, 2014 This bird's eye view of contemporary Mexico was given in Spanish.
English & Spanish Reading of the Novel "See You Next Year"
by Aurora Velasco
Discussion on writing, migration, and translation was held on Thursday, March 6, 2014.
Bordering Cultures: Crossing the Lines of History and Myth
This symposium examined notions of history and myth surrounding Texas Independence, the Centennial celebration, Choctaw culture, Native American history through the 21st century, and Mexican narrative traditions of Day of the Dead.
Tuesday October 15, 2013
Panel on Texas Independence and Centennial
- "Texas Independence: An American Perspective." Dr. Stephen Hardin, Professor of History at McMurry University
- "From Revolution to Centennial: Mexican Americans and the Weight of Texas History" Dr. John Morán González, Associate Professor of English and Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin
- Followed by a Carry your Tray lunch
Wednesday October 16, 2013
Native American Culture and History Panel
- "Chahta Lukfi Atoba Ikbit Himonachi (Revitalizing Choctaw Pottery)" - Dr. Ian Thompson, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Choctaw Nation
- “Myths and Realities: Native Americans in History and the 21st Century" Dr. Russell David Edmunds, Anne and Chester Watson Chair in History, UT Dallas
The Chinese Community of Spanish Manila and the Trade between China and America, 16th to 19th century
Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History and Ethnic Studies at Brown University
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Comanches, Conversos, & Converging Streams:
Hybrid Identities in Northern New Mexico
November 3-2, 2010