Cecilia Vicuña, Semiya (Seed Song), 2015, color, sound, HD video, 07:43, Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. On view in Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology from Feb 20-June 13, 2026. Actions is a traveling exhibition curated by Sharmila Wood and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York.
Feb. 10, 2026
The University Forum Lecture Series returns to the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art for 2026. The spring edition of the Series covers an array of topics—punk, Nazis, newspapers, William F. Buckley …
See below for the topics, dates, and times of all of the lectures that will take place in the Museum auditorium between now and the end of April. These lectures are free to attend and everyone is invited.
February 12, 2026, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Nationally recognized anthropologist Dr. Alejandro Lugo will explore how "Letters to the Editor" can shape public discourse, support a free press, and encourage dialogue on a broad range of pressing topics.
February 26, 2026, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Sam Tanenhaus, former editor of the New York Times Book Review Section, discusses the life and times of the conservative public figure William F. Buckley.
March 5, 2026, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Mimi Thi Nguyen, professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Dartmouth College, discusses punk as a moving target with forms, structures, aesthetics, and networks of feelings that are not the same in any time or place.
March 26, 2026, 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Renata Keller, associate professor of history at University of Nevada, Reno, will discuss the context of the Cuban Missile Crisis in order to demonstrate that Latin Americans have played active roles in global politics and inter-American relations.
April 9, 2026, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
The Dutch writer Ian Buruma will talk about life in Berlin during World War II and how the Nazi regime tried to keep up the pretense that life was normal.
April 23, 2026, 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Rabbi Brant Rosen will examine this important Jewish communal shift.
Note that The Fate of the Americas will start earlier than all of the other lectures (4 p.m. rather than 7 p.m.). A seventh lecture, De-Silencing The Past: Indigenous Resistance And The Decolonization Of Schooling In Canada, will take place in UNLV’s Beverly Rogers Literature and Law Building on April 16 at 4 p.m.
The University Forum Lecture Series is sponsored and funded by the UNLV College of Liberal Arts and the Dean’s Associates. You can subscribe for event reminders at the University Forum page on the College's website. Contact them with any questions at 702-895-3401 or liberalarts@unlv.edu