The Critical Approaches to Place public speaker series has featured both visiting scholars and community speakers. Its goal is to engage multiple publics in discussions of place, representation, and the environment. The series has an eye toward demonstrating how the (geo)humanities offer essential insights into place, the environment, and entanglement of related issues with cultural dynamics and power imbalances. Speakers have included:

 

Winter 2023

  • Panel, Zine Release & Celebration. Click here for more information. 

 

Spring 2023

  • Mapping the City: A Zine Making Workshop. Click here for more information.
  • Dr. Harriet Hawkins, professor of GeoHumanities and the founding co-director of the Centre for GeoHumanities, Royal Holloway, University of London. Click to view flyer. Printer-friendly version of flyer available here.

 

Spring 2022

  • Community panel featuring: Norma Hartell, NMSU graduate, founder of Murals of Las Cruces project and 2021 National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Leadership Institute Fellow; Nan Rubin, Executive Producer KTAL Community Radio, Las Cruces; Nikesha Breeze, interdisciplinary internationally shown artist; Diego Medina, Piro-Manso-Tiwa artist, poet, historian, and educator; Patrick Nolan, Executive Director of Friends of Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument. Click to view flyer.
  • Visiting scholars Adela C. Licona, Associate Professor Emeritus, English, University of Arizona; Jamie Lee, Assistant Professor of Digital Culture, Information, and Society, University of Arizona, founding director of Digital Storytelling & Oral History Lab. Click to view flyer.
  • Members of the Pueblo of Zuni (A:shiwi) in New Mexico who participated in the A:shiwi Map Art Project: Curtis Quam, the Museum Technician and Cultural Educator for the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center; Ronnie Cachini, an artist and cultural leader; and Mallery Quetawki, an artist specializing in scientific and health communication. Click to view flyer.
  • Visiting scholar Meghan Kelly, assistant professor, geography, University of Durham (UK). Click to view flyer.

 

Fall 2021

  • Visiting scholar Erin Espelie, assistant professor, film studies and critical media practices, co-director of NEST (Nature, Environment, Science, and Technology Studio for the Arts), University of Colorado Boulder. Click to view flyer.