Clements Center Evening Lecture Series

During the academic year the Clements Center organizes evening lectures for 夜色王朝faculty, staff, students, as well as members of the community who are interested in topics related to Texas, the American Southwest and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Presentations are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, often focusing on current research, recent publications, or new exhibitions

 

Evening Lecture: Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf
The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas
6 pm and Q&A
Texana Room, Fondren Library, 6404 Robert S. Hyer Lane, SMU

 

Kahn Distinguished Lecture: October 2, 2025

 

Corinna Zeltsman
Debating the Boundaries of Press Freedom: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
6 pm and Q&A
Texana Room, Fondren Library, 6404 Robert S. Hyer Lane, SMU

 

Clements Senior Fellow Lecture: Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Leonard V. Smith, Clements Senior Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America
Liberalism and Settler Colonialism in Texas and French Algeria in the 1830s and 1840s
6 PM and Q&A
Texana Room, Fondren Library, 6404 Robert S. Hyer Lane, SMU

 

Evening Lecture: Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Tim Seiter, UT Tyler
Wrangling Pelicans: Military Life in Texas Presidios
6 PM and Q&A
Texana Room, Fondren Library, 6404 Robert S. Hyer Lane, SMU

 

The David J. Weber Book Prize Annual Lecture: Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Omar Valerio-Jiminez, UTSA
Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship
6 PM lecture followed by Q&A
The Texana Room, Fondren Library, 6404 Robert S. Hyer Lane, SMU