UNM International Studies Institute’s Fall 2015 lecture series will feature 14 speakers following the theme “Peace: From Conflict to Reconciliation,” according to a UNM press release.
The series kicked off on Monday with a panel on Israel and Palestine led by speakers Alex Lubin, chair of American Studies at UNM, and Les Field, chair of the anthropology department at UNM.
Four of the speakers are visiting lecturers from other colleges, including the University of Colorado, Santa Fe Community College and the University of Johannesburg.
Lecture topics included shared security and peace, the recent Arab Spring and post-World War II European society.
The series concludes on Nov. 30 with a lecture by UNM English doctoral candidate Julie Williams titled “Nuclear Literature: Storytelling and Survival from Los Alamos to Hiroshima and beyond.”
A full schedule of the lectures can be found at here.
