Alumni Events

 

National Coming Out Day: Fashionably Late!

National Coming Out Day on October 11 helps raise awareness and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. It also encourages and reminds us all to embrace our authentic selves and promotes acceptance and support from allies. Join Honors and the Arcoiris Center for an optional "coming out" photo at the door outside our college, lunch, and an LGBTQ-focused talk on Tolkien from Dr. Leslie Donovan.

 

 Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Time: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Location: Honors College Forum

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has long invited LGBTQ readers, fans, and scholars to find new possibilities in its portrayals of gender, love, friendship, and identity. From Éowyn’s resistance to traditional gender roles to the profound bond between Frodo and Sam, this talk explores LGBTQ perspectives on Tolkien’s Middle-earth and the many ways its characters challenge - or transcend - conventional understandings of gender and relationships.

Honors College Alumni Homecoming Celebration & Awards

Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Time: 5:30pm-8pm
Location: Hodgin Hall Courtyard

Cost: $5

The UNM Honors College welcomes Honors College alumni, their families, and friends to its annual Homecoming Open House. Enjoy an informal courtyard gathering with food and beverages, remarks from the Dean, recognition of Distinguished Alumni and Young Alumni award recipients, and a Scribendi student-led silent auction benefiting the Honors College's creative arts magazine. Reservations are required. 

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UNM Alumni /  Homecoming Pack Week

Check out the calendar below for exciting Homecoming Pack Week gatherings for alumni, students, and all Lobos with more events coming soon!

Pack Week Calendar

Honors College Alumni Spring Book Club

Join us for a discussion on a book from Honors College faculty Betsy James, Breathing Stone: Living Small in a Southwest Village. Save your spot and let us know if you plan to attend in-person or through Zoom. 

Date: Thursday, February 11, 2027
Time: 6:30 pm - 8 pm
Location: TBA - in-person and virtual

For four years in the 1990s, writer, artist, and backcountry hiker Betsy James shared an old adobe in the village of Placitas at the northern foot of the Sandias. Breathing Stone: Living Small in a Southwest Village is a cache of warm, minute observations of nature and neighbors—the dogs and birds, cats and children, weather and weeds of rural New Mexico. It is both a small haven and a quiet suggestion that we observe our own lives, nudging us to catch the small things that are so easy to forget. It is illustrated with field sketches from James’ own journal.

Honors College Taster Workshop

Save the date for our Honors College Taster Workshop, a day of writing and creativity workshops on March 6, 2027. More information will be shared soon! 

Honors College Fall Writing Workshop

The Honors College Fall Writing Workshop is a class taught by Honors faculty Jona Kottler and Honors alumni Zach Hively of Casa Urraca Press. This workshop will be held Monday nights, 6:30-8:30 pm, in the Honors College Forum. Exact dates and more details will be shared soon!