"Anasazi Architecture and Landscape Architecture in the Early Southwest: Recent Findings" is the topic of the Feb. 11 University Forum lecture.

Baker H. Morrow, architecture and planning professor at the University of New Mexico, will present the slide-illustrated lecture. He will discuss the extraordinary cities built by the ancient Anasazi in the Southwest, including recent discoveries about the Anasazi's ingenious patterns of site development and land use.

On Feb. 14, William J. Novak, a history professor at the University of Chicago, will examine historical misconceptions about the strength of individual liberties and the weakness of state power in the United States. In his lecture, "The Myth of American Individualism," Novak will survey positive uses of state power, including the nation's founding and the recent establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.

Both lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of UNLV's Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History. All University Forum lectures are free and open to the public.

The University Forum lecture series is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and is underwritten by The Jerry Kalafatis Lodge Charitable Foundation and the UNLV Foundation.

For more information on the series, call 895-3401 or send an e-mail to: forum@nevada.edu.