Over the years the Clements Center has organized a wide variety of symposia and exhibits related to the Southwest and the borderlands.  Most have resulted in a publication, which the Center has published itself of has given a subvention to a major press to produced.  As the list below illustrates, this effort began in 1996 when the Center first opened its doors.

Announcing the 2008-2009 Symposium:

Sunbelt Rising:
The Politics of Space, Place and Region in the American South and Southwest
July 19, 2008, USC - Huntington Institute on California & the West
April 25, 2009, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Book result under contract with University of Pennsylvania Press.

Upcoming: 

The Annual Legacies Dallas History Conference
(Co-sponsor)
Dallas, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008

On the Borders of Love and Power: Families & Kinship in the Multicultural West
Fall 2009, New Mexico
Spring 2010, Southern Methodist University, Dallas

Past Symposia:

Indians and Energy:
Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest 
September 27-28, 2007, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe
April 12, 2008, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Book result forthcoming, SAR Press.  To bep ublished in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

Bridging National Borders in North America
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. Fall 2006.
 Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Spring 2007.
Book result forthcoming, Duke University Press.  To be published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

Consumer Culture Meets the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
SMU-in-Taos. Fall 2005.
Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Spring 2006.
Disrupted Boundaries: Consumption in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Book result forthcoming, Duke University Press, 2008. To be published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

The Political Legacies of the American West
SMU-in-Taos. Fall 2004.
Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Spring 2005.
 The Political Culture of the New West
Book result, University of Kansas Press, 2008. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

New Spain:
The First Flowering of American Colonial Arts
Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Fall 2004.

Mapping Memories & Migrations: Re-thinking Latina Histories
SMU-in-Taos. Fall 2003.
The Latino Cultural Center, Dallas. Spring 2004.
Memories & Migration:
Locating Boricua and Chicana Histories
Book result, University of Illinois Press, 2008. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies

The "Worlds of Islam" Series
Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Fall 2002.

Continental Crossroads
Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Fall 2002.
Continental Crossroads:
Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History
Book result, Duke University Press, 2004.  Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies

Social Control on Spain's North American Frontiers
SMU-in-Taos. Fall 2001.
Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Spring 2002.
Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion
Social Control on Spain's North American Frontiers:
Book result, University of New Mexico Press, 2005. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies

The Future of the Southern Plains
SMU-in-Taos. Fall 200.
Southern Methodist University. Dallas, 2001.
The Future of the Southern Plains
Book result, University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.  Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies

Destination Mexico: US Tourism to Mexico, 18802-1950s
DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University. Dallas 2001.
Destination México: "A Foreign Land a Step Away":
U.S. Tourism to Mexico, 1880s-1950s
Book result published by the Clements Center for Southwest Studies and
the DeGolyer Library, SMU, 2001.

Espacios Sagrados/Sacred Space:
Man & the Divine in Mexico, Central America, and the Southwestern United States
Dallas, 2000.

Tourism in the American Southwest
(Made possible by a gift in honor of Governor Clements from the Karl Rove Group)
SMU-in-Taos, 1999.
The Culture of Tourism and the Tourism of Culture
(Made possible by a gift in honor of Governor Clements by the Karl Rove Group)
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 2000.
Book result, University of New Mexico Press, 2003. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies

The Fifth Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the University of Texas
(Co-sponsored with the University of Texas at Austin and Trinity University)
Austin, 1999.

Philology and the Spanish Borderlands
SMU-in-Taos, 1999.
Zaldívar and the Cattle of Cíbola:
Vicente de Zaldívar's Report of His Expedition to the Buffalo Plains in 1598
Book result published by the Clements Center for Southwest Studies

Teaching the U.S.- Mexican War
(Co-sponsored with KERA)
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1999.
Based on the documentary produced by KERA D/FW for PBS.

Mexico - U.S. Migration
(Co-sponsored with the Tower Center, SMU)
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1998.

E. I. Couse and the Invention of the Mythic Southwest
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1998.
Catalog result published in cooperation with the Clements Center for Southwest Studies by the Pollock Gallery, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU.

The New Dallas:
Immigrants, Ethnic Entrepreneurship, and Cultural Diversity
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1997.
Book result published by the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, 1997.

The American Southwest -- Old Horizons, New Vistas
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1996.

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