Clements Center Evening Lecture Series
During the academic year the Clements Center organizes evening lectures for ÃÛÌÒ½´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 FriaufThe 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 AmericaLiberalism 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, UTSARemembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory, and Citizenship
6 PM lecture followed by Q&A
The Texana Room, Fondren Library, 6404 Robert S. Hyer Lane, SMU