Over the years the Clements Center has organized a wide variety of symposia and exhibits related to the Southwest and the borderlands.  Most have resulted in a publication, which the Center has published itself of has given a subvention to a major press to produced.  As the list below illustrates, this effort began in 1996 when the Center first opened its doors.

Announcing the 2008-2009 Symposium:

Sunbelt Rising:
The Politics of Space, Place and Region in the American South and Southwest
July 18-19, 2008, USC - Huntington Institute on California & the West
April 25, 2009, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Book result under contract with University of Pennsylvania Press.

Upcoming: 

The Annual Legacies Dallas History Conference
(Co-sponsor)
Dallas, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008

On the Borders of Love and Power: Families & Kinship in the Multicultural West
Fall 2009, New Mexico
Spring 2010, Southern Methodist University, Dallas

Past Symposia:

Indians and Energy:
Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest 
September 27-28, 2007, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe
April 12, 2008, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Book result forthcoming, SAR Press.

Bridging National Borders in North America
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. Fall 2006.
 Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Spring 2007.
Book result forthcoming, Duke University Press.

Disrupted Boundaries: Consumption in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
SMU-in-Taos. Fall 2005.
Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Spring 2006.
Book result forthcoming, Duke University Press, 2008.

 The Political Legacies of the American West
SMU-in-Taos. Fall 2004.
Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Spring 2005.
Book result forthcoming, University of Kansas Press, 2008.

New Spain:
The First Flowering of American Colonial Arts
Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Fall 2004.

Memories & Migration:
Locating Boricua and Chicana Histories
SMU-in-Taos. Fall 2003.
The Latino Cultural Center, Dallas. Spring 2004.
Book result , University of Illinois Press, 2006.

The "Worlds of Islam" Series
Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Fall 2002.

Continental Crossroads:
Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History
Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Fall 2002.
Book result, Duke University Press, 2004.

Social Control on Spain's North American Frontiers:
Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion
SMU-in-Taos. Fall 2001.
Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Spring 2002.
Book result, University of New Mexico Press, 2005.

The Future of the Southern Plains
SMU-in-Taos. Fall 200.
Southern Methodist University. Dallas, 2001.
Book result, University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.

Destination México: "A Foreign Land a Step Away":
U.S. Tourism to Mexico, 1880s-1950s
(Co-sponsored with DeGolyer Library)
Southern Methodist University. Dallas 2001.
Book result published in cooperation with the Clements Center for Southwest Studies by the DeGolyer Library, SMU, 2001.

Espacios Sagrados/Sacred Space:
Man & the Divine in Mexico, Central America, and the Southwestern United States
Dallas, 2000.

Tourism in the American Southwest
(Made possible by a gift in honor of Governor Clements from the Karl Rove Group)
SMU-in-Taos, 1999.
The Culture of Tourism and the Tourism of Culture
(Made possible by a gift in honor of Governor Clements by the Karl Rove Group)
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 2000.
Book result, University of New Mexico Press, 2003. 

The Fifth Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the University of Texas
(Co-sponsored with the University of Texas at Austin and Trinity University)
Austin, 1999.

Philology and the Spanish Borderlands
SMU-in-Taos, 1999.
Zaldívar and the Cattle of Cíbola:
Vicente de Zaldívar's Report of His Expedition to the Buffalo Plains in 1598
Book result published by the Clements Center for Southwest Studies

Teaching the U.S.- Mexican War
(Co-sponsored with KERA)
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1999.
Based on the documentary produced by KERA D/FW for PBS

Mexico - U.S. Migration
(Co-sponsored with the Tower Center, SMU)
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1998.

E. I. Couse and the Invention of the Mythic Southwest
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1998.
Catalog result published in cooperation with the Clements Center for Southwest Studies by the Pollock Gallery, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU.

The New Dallas:
Immigrants, Ethnic Entrepreneurship, and Cultural Diversity
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1997.
Book result published by the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, 1997.

The American Southwest -- Old Horizons, New Vistas
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1996.

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