On Thursday, October 23, 2025, at 5:30 pm, Dr. Severin Fowles from Columbia University will present the JAR Distinguished Lecture “War and Iconology in Colonial New Mexico.” This free lecture will be held in Hibben Center Room 105 at the University of New Mexico campus. For more information, go to https://anthropology.unm.edu/news-events/events/event/jar-distinguished-lecture-image-capture-war-and-iconology-in-colonial-new-mexico.html or contact Suzanne Oakdale at soakdale@unm.edu. In this presentation, archaeologist Dr. Severin Fowles looks beyond the horses, guns, germs, and steel that have dominated materialist analyses of the colonial encounter to consider the circulation of images – or more precisely, the circulation of new understandings of what images are and how they function. His focus is on the “Biographic Tradition,” an Indigenous mode of iconographic production that rapidly spread across the Great Plains and parts of New Mexico during the early colonial period. The Biographic Tradition had a strongly archival sensibility, dominated by graphic illustrations of the exploits of specific Plains warriors.
“War and Iconology in Colonial New Mexico” Presentation
by Monica Young | Oct 13, 2025 | Events, General | 0 comments