CENTER OPERATIONS

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2008-09 Events

Benefactors, Advisors & Staff

Community Fellows

Consortium for Southwest Studies

RESEARCH & STUDIES

Research Fellows

Ph.D. program

Graduate Students Research Grants

Dissertation Fellowship

Clements Center-DeGolyer Library Research Grants

Call for Papers!

PUBLICATIONS

Books on Southwestern American

Library of Texas

Clements Book Prize

PUBLIC EVENTS

Symposium

Brown Bags

Current Events

Lectures

LINKS

SMU Department of History

Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences

Links to SMU Resources Related to the Southwest

Links to Associations, Centers and Societies related to the Southwest

Links to Libraries, Archives and Reference sites related to the Southwest

Links to Museums related to the Southwest

Links to Publications & Journals related to the Southwest 

Links to sites related to Mexico

Links to Other Fellowship Opportunities

Texas State Historical Association Awards and Fellowships

Other Fellowship Opportunities

 

 

 


2008-2009 Brown Bags

William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies

Brown Bag Lecture Series

in the Texana Room of DeGolyer Library
on the campus of Southern Methodist University

6404 Hilltop, corner with McFarlin Blvd.

12 noon to 1 p.m.


During the semester the Clements Center organizes monthly programs for SMU faculty, staff, graduate students, and members of the community who are interested in topics related to the Southwest.  Presentations are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, often reporting on current research, recent publications, or new exhibitions.  Don't forget to bring your lunch!


September 17, 2008

This Weeping Land 

Raphael Folsom
Clements Center Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America 2008-09
Southern Methodist University


October 15, 2008
 

The Risky Business of Editing Historical Documents:
Letters from the U.S. - Mexico Boundary Survey, 1849-1854

David J. Weber
Dedman Professor of History and Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Southern Methodist University


November 5, 2008

A caballo entre dos mundos: Material Culture in Spanish Colonial Texas

Dr. Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Chair, Department of Art Education and Art History, College of Visual Arts and Design
University of North Texas


January 28, 2009

Conflict and Commonality in the Texas-Mexico Border Region, 1830-1880

Miguel Ángel González Quiroga
Clements Center Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America 2008-09
Southern Methodist University


February 18, 2009

David Narrett
Clements Center Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America 2008-09
Southern Methodist University


March 18, 2009

'Hidden Economy under Chained Hands’:
The Internal Prison Economy and the Struggle for Prisoner Rights

in Texas Prisons, 1945-1980

Robert Chase
Clements Center Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America 2008-09
Southern Methodist University


April 15, 2009

Texas is Everywhere South of the Canadian Border:
The Bracero Program and the Nationalization of

South Texas Labor Relations

John Weber
Summerlee Foundation Fellow for the Study of Texas History 2008-09
Southern Methodist University


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Last updated July 3, 2008.