Past Events

The Center wraps up the summer series with Ruth Lambert's Documentation of Three Hispano Cemeteries along the San Juan River, on Wednesday, August 21st. The year's series theme is Hispanidad!, dovetailing with our newly updated Treasures of the Southwest exhibit featuring items from our Hispanic collections.

The Center welcomes Frank Graziano. He'll present on Historic Churches of New Mexico: A Visual Tour, on Wednesday, August 7th. The year's series theme is Hispanidad!, dovetailing with our newly updated Treasures of the Southwest exhibit featuring items from our Hispanic collections. The lectures take place in the Center's Lyceum Room #120 at 1:30 p.m. Free and open to the public.

The Summer Lecture Series continues with Andy Gulliford returning to give a talk about, La Estrella del Pastor - Hispano Sheepherders from Colorado and New Mexico: Culture, Tradition, and Sheepscapes, on Wednesday, July 24th. The lectures take place in the Center's Lyceum Room #120 at 1:30 p.m. Free and open to the public.

The Summer Lecture Series continues. Lois Rudnick will return to give a talk on, La Fabulosa Fabiola (Cabeza de Baca): First ‘Lady’ of New Mexican Cuisine, on Wednesday, July 10th. The series' theme Hispanidad! dovetails with our newly updated Treasures of the Southwest exhibit featuring items from our Hispanic collections.

The Center is pleased to continue to offer the very popular Summer Lecture Series, this year based on the theme Hispanidad! dovetailing with our newly updated Treasures of the Southwest exhibit featuring items from our Hispanic collections. Journalist Judith Reynolds will kick off the series with her talk, Fridamania: The Art, Career, and Cultural Legacy of Frida Kahlo, on Wednesday, June 26th. The lecture will take place in the Center's Lyceum Room #120 at 1:30 p.m. Free and open to the public.

The Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College celebrates the Summer Solstice on Friday, June 21, 2019. Doors open at 6:00 a.m. At the dawn of the summer solstice, a spiral of sunlight makes its way across the gallery walls making for a dazzling display. This event is free of charge and is open to the public; light refreshments provided.

Join us Tuesday April 9th at 5:30 pm in the Center's Lyceum Room #120 for a preview screening of the Rocky Mountain PBS "Colorado Experience" episode (26 min) featuring Ben Nighthorse Campbell. Q&A with the production team to follow, and a birthday cake celebration for Ben!

RSVPs can be made here

The 2018-2019 Center of Southwest Studies Doctoral Fellow, Patrick Troester, will present his doctoral research/ thesis on Examining Violence in the U.S. - Mexico Borderlands and its Impact on Nation Building. Patrick is a doctoral student at Southern Methodist University. Join us on Wednesday, November 28th at 5:30 pm in the CSWS Lyceum Room, #120.

Andrew W. Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation supports undergrads from STEM/ STEAM fields of study. The weeklong workshop at UCLA/ Getty Museum in summer 2019 introduces students to museum careers in conservation, and could lead to a fully fundednternship at museum conservation labs.

INFO session: Thursday, November 15th from 1:00-2:00 pm in the FLC Student Union Vallecito Room. Light refreshments provided.

The Renaissance Palace on Main Avenue, a look at the four year building boom in Durango between the great fire of 1889 and the depression of 1893, giving the town the Victorian architectural look it has.

Judith Reynolds is an arts journalist, art historian, and political cartoonist. After a career in academia, she switched to the for-profit world of newspaper journalism and eventually became arts, then managing editor of an upstate New York paper. In 1994, Reynolds and her late husband, David, moved to Durango where she began freelancing for the Durango Herald and teaching occasionally at Fort Lewis College.