Upcoming Lectures
The Humanitarian Crisis in Africa and its Global Implications 
Dr. Robert Hitchcock
November 2, 2018 (Fri) 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
UNM Continuing Education Conference Center
1634 University Blvd NE
The combination of drought, conflict, and governance issues in Africa in the past decade has led to a massive humanitarian crisis in which millions of people have had to leave their homes. This talk will focus on the causes and consequences of the humanitarian crisis in Africa and will explore some of the innovative strategies that have been employed to cope with the crisis, from promoting local-level conflict resolution mechanisms to promoting programs that expand entrepreneurial, employment, and income generation activities. +More Info
20% “Early Bird” Discount: Purchase tickets by October 26.
The Cultural Diversity of Spain 
Andrew Connors, Director of the Albuquerque Museum
November 11, 2018 (Sun) 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Albuquerque Museum
2000 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104
In slides and music Andrew Connors will explore the cultural diversity inherent throughout the history of Spain, the threshold between Europe and North Africa. For millennia Spain has benefited from the arrival of new communities bringing foods, languages, literature, poetry, science, mathematics, music, art traditions, and ideas. Using primarily works of art from the Hispanic Society of America collection on view at the Albuquerque Museum beginning November 10, 2018, Connors will discuss the wealth of knowledge we can gain from new communities willing to contribute their best to a new land. +More Info
20% “Early Bird” Discount: Purchase tickets by November 4.
If Pyramids Could Talk: Moche Monumental Art in Ancient Peru 
Dr. Margaret Jackson, Associate Professor, UNM
December 2, 2018 (Sun) 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Albuquerque Museum
2000 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104
If pyramids could talk what might they tell us? Over a span of 800 years or more, the Moche people of Peru’s north coast created dazzling works in precious metals, textiles and ceramics, leaving behind an extensive corpus of vivid pictorial imagery. Focusing on major mural cycles at the Huaca de La Luna/Pyramid of the Moon, and related materials from the Royal Tombs of Sipan and other sites, this talk will address these questions and highlight the speaker’s personal investigations of Moche art. +More Info
20% “Early Bird” Discount: Purchase tickets by November 23.
