New Mexico PBS Presents "Secrets of Spanish Florida-A Secrets of the Dead Special Screening"

Watch a team of archaeologists, scientists and historians as they reveal the history of America’s Spanish colonists who settled in Florida in 1565, long before Jamestown or Plymouth were founded!

Special reception and FREE preview screening of

Secrets of Spanish Florida – A Secrets of the Dead Special

Thursday, December 7th, 2017

The Hibben Center Auditorium at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

500 University Blvd NE

6:00pm-7:00pm – Reception

7:00pm-8:30pm - Free Preview Screening and discussion

The 60-minute preview will be followed by a discussion with an expert from the film - Dr. Kathleen Deagan – Distinguished Research Curator of Archaeology and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Florida’s Florida Museum of Natural History and Dr. Amiee Villarreal – Director of Comparative Mexican American Studies at Our Lady of the Lake University. A scholar/activist and media producer, Dr. Villarreal teaches courses in Anthropology, Mexican American and Latin American Studies. Gene Grant, host of New Mexico in Focus will moderate the discussion.

Free parking is available on the NW corner of Central and University Blvd.

Catering provided by Atrios Catering

Click here for the parking map

Funding for this program was provided, in part, by The Lastinger Family Foundation; The Hough Family Foundation; The Weaver Family Foundation, through The Commuity Foundation for Northeast Florida; and The Joy McCann Foundation. Funding for SECRETS OF THE DEAD is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and by public television viewers.