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Plenty of lectures, conferences planned in madness of March

March madness for college hoops is here but so is a spring madness of lectures and conferences at NMSU.

On March 12-13, the government department, the Center for Latin American and Border Studies, and the International Relations Institute will sponsor a conference on "Economic Crisis and Immigration Policy: New Perspectives from Mexico and the United States."

The conference will have experts and scholars like Jorge Bustamante, a United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Human Rights of Migrants and a Eugene Conley professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Bustamante's lecture is at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 12, at NMSU's Anderson Hall Auditorium. The other lectures will be from 9 a.m. to noon, Friday, March 13, at NMSU's Anderson Hall Auditorium.

The following week, members of the Hispanic Serving Institution Group will have a symposium open to the public to explore in a deeper perspective what the HSI designation means for the university, its students, faculty, staff and the community NMSU serves. The symposium will be from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, at NMSU's Corbett Center Auditorium.

The very next day, the department of journalism and mass communications will sponsor a lecture and panel titled "Censorship by Bullet and Intimidation: Journalists' Murders in Mexico." This one-and-half hour discussion from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18, in Milton Hall Room 171, will bring area journalists together to discuss the violence in Mexico ignited by the drug cartels' wars. The lecture is part of NMSU's James Madison Day.

On Thursday, March 19, at NMSU's Corbett Center Senate Chambers, New Mexico State University will host the Energy and Economic Development in New Mexico Conference. The event is part of NMSU's Arrowhead Center Prosper Project, an effort to study relationships between fossil fuel production, economic development and water in the state.

As April rolls around, stay tuned for more information on the "J. Paul Taylor Social Justice Symposium: Justice for Youth" and the "Bi-National Energy Future: Biofuels and Solar Policy Summit."

Written by Mario Montes.