University Forum Lecture: Punk Is a Moving Target

Name: University Forum Lecture: Punk Is a Moving Target
Start: 2026-03-05T19:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-03-05T20:30:00-08:00
Location: 4505 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States, Nevada 89154

Schedule

Thu Mar 05 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

4505 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States, Nevada 89154 | Las Vegas, NV

Mimi Thi Nguyen, professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Dartmouth College, will discuss punk as a moving target with forms, structures, aesthetics, and networks of feelings that are not stable or the same in any time or place. Nguyen makes sense of living within the spaces where she met punk's promise -- through war, forced removal, crimes of private property and public disorder, and chance encounters with friends and strangers.
This event will take place in the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art auditorium. It is free. Everyone is welcome. Co-sponsored by Asian and Asian American Studies, Black Mountain Institute, Department of Anthropology, Neon Pacific Initiative, and PunkCon. University Forum is organized by UNLV’s College of Liberal Arts. Contact the College with any questions about this lecture: 702-895-3401 [email protected]
Image: Jackie Amézquita, Entre California y Baja California (detail), 2024 Soil sourced between the border that connects the states of California in the US, and Baja California, Mexico; corn masa, salt, cal (dehydrated lime), rain water, framed with copper. Image courtesy the artist. This artwork will be on view at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art from Feb 20-June 13, 2026.