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Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) Distinguished Lecture | Image Capture: War and Iconography in Colonial New Mexico
No full textThursday, October 23, 2025 | 05:30 pm
Hibben 105
The history of colonialism in the American West is not just the story of how European people, animals, and technologies invaded Indigenous worlds but also of how these things were engaged, redeployed, countered, rejected, and, in some cases, embraced by native communities. In this paper, I look beyond the horses, guns, germs, and steel that have dominated materialist analyses of the colonial encounter to consider the circulation of images—or more precisely, the circulation of new understandings of what images are and how they function. My focus is on the “Biographic Tradition,” an Indigenous mode of iconographic production that rapidly spread across the Great Plains and parts of New Mexico during the early colonial period. The Biographic Tradition had a strongly archival sensibility, dominated by graphic illustrations of the exploits of specific Plains warriors. In my account of the origins and development of this tradition, two arguments are advanced: first, that the Biographic Tradition was the child of colonialism, directly influenced by European aesthetics and logics of historical depiction, and second, that such images quickly developed into their own theater of war, enacting rather than merely representing violence.
Dr. Fowles will give the JAR lecture on Thursday, October 23 at 5:30 PM at Hibben 105. He will also give a specialized seminar on Friday, October 24 at 12:00 PM at Anthropology 248. This seminar will explore the history of the image in New Mexico and lay out a theoretical framework for the study of rock art as iconography.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/laii_events/1492/thumbnail.jp
2025-2026 Colloquium Series | Squatter Life: Survival, Precarity, and Politics in Urban Argentina
No full textFriday, November 14, 2025 | 01:30 pm
Sociology Commons | Social Sciences 1061
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In Squatter Life, sociologist Javier Auyero and anthropologist Sofía Servián examine how Argentina’s urban poor navigate everyday survival amid state neglect and structural violence. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork and Servián’s lived experience in a squatter settlement, the book reveals the precarious strategies—exploitative labor, patronage, and reciprocal networks, sometimes involving illicit exchange—that sustain life on the margins. Analyzing how these survival strategies intersect with class, gender, and political domination, the authors present a nuanced account of marginality in Argentinian squatter settlements while maintaining a deeply human portrait of survival and persistence.
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This event is free and open to the public.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/laii_events/1506/thumbnail.jp
The Last Snapshots of the Latin American Revolution: Culture, Politics, and Nostalgia, 1979-1991
No full textThursday, February 27, 2025 | Zoom
When, where, and how did the leftwing revolutionary projects and imaginations end? The central aim of this project is to answer this overarching question and, in doing so, shed new light into the history of the leftwing political culture, from the victory of the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1979 until the critical biennium 1989-1991. Albeit with different modalities and intensities, millions of people in Latin America kept believing in revolutionary projects, seeking to reconcile longstanding struggles for socioeconomic equality and anti-imperialism with a renovated agenda centered on democracy and equality in the gender, sexual, and racial milieus. The support for the Sandinistas in other geographical settings signaled that these projects also appealed to North American and Western European leftwing militants and sympathizers. The (would-be) last snapshots of the Latin American revolution collaborated with the persistence and transformation of a global left-wing political culture during the 1980s.
Valeria Manzano is Professor of History at the University of San Martín and researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, Argentina. She is the author of The Age of Youth in Argentina: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality from Perón to Videla, Un siglo joven: juventud, cultura y política en la Argentina del siglo XX (Siglo XXI, March 2025), and La última ilusión: cultura, política y la crisis de la revolución en América Latina (University of Bielefeld, May 2025) as well as of two-dozen articles and chapters. She has been visiting professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva), University of Cologne, Diego Portales (Santiago de Chile), and University of Costa Rica, among others. She is currently completing the archival research for a book project, tentatively titled The Last Snapshots of the Latin American Revolution: Culture, Politics, and Nostalgia.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/greenleaf_scholars/1025/thumbnail.jp
Teacher Workshop: Connecting Migrant Realities Between Latin America and the United States
No full textSaturday, February 22, 2025 | 09:30 am - 12:30 pm
Albuquerque Museum | Ventana Salon
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Join the Latin American and Iberian Institute and teacher Claudio Pérez, the creator of the Albuquerque Museum’s Border Doors exhibit, for an inspiring workshop focused on Latin American migration to the US.
Claudio will share his Border Door project’s inspiration, offer a background on migration, and provide a lesson plan for educators to bring back to their classrooms. Participants will reflect on the immigrant experience and explore how art can be a powerful tool for storytelling and change. Educators will also enjoy a private tour of the exhibit and create their own border door, reflecting on the human stories behind immigration. The workshop will also feature Marvin Domínguez (History teacher at Sandia Prep) and Gigi Yu (Art Education professor at UNM).
Claudio Pérez is a Spanish Teacher at Sandia Preparatory School. Since 2014, he has been taking his advanced Spanish-language students to El Paso, Texas where they utilize their Spanish skills to interact first-hand with immigrants and advocates at the Cristo Rey Border Immersion Program. Upon their return to Albuquerque, students illustrate a series of doors containing colorful and powerful imagery that tells the stories of the people they met and reflect on major themes of immigration at the border.
This workshop is open to all K-12 teachers. APS teachers are highly encouraged to attend!
RSVP by February 14th here.
Questions? Email: [email protected]
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This event is free and open to the public.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/laii_events/1518/thumbnail.jp
Designing and Evaluating a PubMed Metadata Text Mining Software Program
No full textA presentation about a program to propose new MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) terms in a specific subject area based on author keywords
Integrating Normative Coherence into Judicial Hermeneutics through the Neutrosophic Hierarchical Analytic Process: An Ethical Approach to Justice
No full textThis article answers the need to ensure normative coherence in hermeneutics exercised by judges and aims to investigate how a judge\u27s decision can be in line with ethical justice values and formal justice values when uncertainty is concerned. This article is significant and timely because the current state of globalized legal systems calls for judges who can render the expected outcome but also an application of law that supports ethical justice values to enhance the legitimacy of any judicial system and community confidence in authority. While other scholarly contributions to the field of legal hermeneutics—from Vigo—credit a great deal to the value of ethics and coherence, rarely is there a comprehensive approach that applies a formalized process to control for uncertainty when exercising legal hermeneutics. Thus, this article applies the Neutrosophic Analytic Hierarchy Process (NAHP)—a formalized decision-making process that accounts for indeterminacy in addition to truth and falsity. Ultimately, findings show that judges can use NAHP to give weighted importance to ethical values because the process provides coherent results with existing normative systems yet remains sensitive to socioeconomic legal factors. This article adds to the body of knowledge theoretically through legal hermeneutics based on a formalized approach to ethical decision-making. Furthermore, practically it shows judges a way to ensure their decisions are consistent with substantive justice for the better good of equity and social integration even when the legal system is inherently uncertain at times
Multivariate visualization of the impact of Universal Design for Learning on inclusion and mathematical achievement using the Neutrosophic Biplot Method
No full textThis dissertation answers a problem of practice. What is the effect of Universal Design for Learning on equity and achievement in math for at-risk and special needs upper elementary and secondary students in Ecuador? classrooms are more diverse than ever, with variations in learning styles and the expectation of equity in the classroom. Thus, it\u27s critical to address past and present methods of teaching that promote access and participation. While the implementation of Universal Design for Learning is relatively new to the inclusion game, the studies done thus far fail to incorporate a triangulated design that considers complexity, multivariate factors, and the uncertainty of the educational environment. Therefore, the use of the Neutrosophic Biplot Method was employed to assess participation and achievement in math based on an uncertain event via a multivariate analysis. The action created a heat map of inclusion and achievement that suggested statistically significant relationships between how adopting UDL promotes equity and achievement in math, but also a difference, within regions, gender, age, and disability status. The contribution of this study is the unique methodological approach that combines inclusive pedagogy with a neutrosophic study that bolsters the body of theory and pragmatism in the field of education from a diverse situational view
Neutrosophic Assessment of Ventilatory Dynamics: A Model for Performance Optimization
No full textThis study expands upon neutrosophics by establishing a novel neutrosophic model for the evaluation of ventilatory capabilities of Peruvian league 1 soccer professionals in response to an urgent need for such scientific studies to accommodate uncertainty associated with generally physiological measurements. The union of neutrosophic statistics principles with spirometric results and cardiopulmonary exercise testing produces a neuto model that effectively operates at 93.2% accuracy measured by 3 factors—(1) identification of asymptomatic ventilatory deficiencies, (2) assessment of respiratory compensatory thresholds reached during play, (3) participant identification for ranking by neutrosophic determination of results and application of aggregation operators. Application of this model with 23 participants from a Lima based club confirmed that compared to the existing model which only measures a degree of certainty associated with measurable variables to overlook value indeterminacy and contradiction—this new integrated value of certainty/indeterminacy/contradiction is crucial for a statistic used for technical determinations made in time sensitive environments; the study used clubs where immediate access was given yet the practicality and feasibility of applying neutrosophics to sports physiology hypostatics suggests generalizability and an extensive, reliable heuristic for clubs who cannot apply in person as guidance for future studies on ventilatory adjustments specific to South American populations. The only limitation to such future potentials suggests applying to persons of different positions (ie goalkeepers) and combing with wearable technology. Ultimately, this research contributes not only to the literature of sports science but also the application of neutrosophical decision making logic to the biomedical field