Announcing the 2009-10 Annual Public Symposium
 
On Borders of Love and Power:
Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American West

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Dallas Hall, McCord Auditorium
Southern Methodist University
3225 University Blvd.
Dallas, TX  75205

In the U.S. West the history of the family includes stories of Comanche warriors, Pueblo Indian women, Catholic priests, children of the fur trade, Mexican mothers, and Washington policy makers.  These and other topics are part of the symposium's exploration of the multiple ways in which women, men, and children, across time and space, were linked by bonds of love, power, and obligation. Later these presentations will become a book of essays.

After an initial meeting and public program held in the fall at the University of New Mexico, participants gathered at SMU on Saturday, February 27, 2010 to present their revised papers. Their final essays will be published as a book for course adoption as well as for the general public.

For a list of presenters and their paper titles, click here.

Symposium Co-organizers:
Crista DeLuzio Southern Methodist University
David Wallace Adams Cleveland State University

Co-sponsored by
The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University 
The Center for the Southwest at the University of New Mexico and
The Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center