Don Randel, Ph.D. and president of the Mellon Foundations talks about the current state of education in the United States and outlines some problems in current education policy. In this talk sponsored by the UNM Office of the Provost he also gives some free advice about SAT scores, tuition decisions, research and ways to fund education.
UNM Computer and Engineering Assistant Professor Pradeep Sen and his graduate student Soheil Darabi have found a unique way to solve an old problem in the film industry. It can take hundreds of hours of computer time to remove noise from digital images and build a graphically acceptable product. But Sen and Darabi have found a way to filer the noise much more quickly. In this conversation with Karen Wentworth, Sen describes his work.
UNM Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Straus
The gaps in what anthropologists know about the Magdalenian Age in Europe are enormous. Few human bones have been found, and the information about them is limited. That’s why the discovery of a partially complete human burial at El Mirón Cave is so exciting. It is the first burial ever found from this time period. UNM Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Strauss discusses his latest find in Spain.
University of Michigan Professor of Anthropology John Mitani talks about “Cooperation among Wild Chimpanzees” during a Sept. 19, 2011 colloquium at the University of New Mexico. He is introduced by Assist. Professor of Anthropology at UNM, Martin Muller.
Mitani does extensive field research and is currently working at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda with a large group of chimpanzees. He is interested in cooperation among male chimpanzees and shares his observations in this talk.
UNM graduate student Sam Markwell explores the political, economic and cultural conditions in which the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD) was established. Markwell focuses on how it has affected pueblo and acequia communities and their claims to water rights within the larger context of change shaping the twentieth century.
This lecture explores how the “Conservancy Project” became and remained the MGCSD through the long and ongoing processes of negotiation, contestation and incorporation among rural and urban communities, financial institutions, municipalities and state and federal government agencies.
Markwell is a graduate of the UNM School of Anthropology and is expanding on work he did during his time as an undergraduate. Currently his studies focus on the cultural politics of water in the South Valley area of Albuquerque with a special interest in environmental justice.
The lecture was cosponsored by the Office of the State Historian Scholars Program, the Historical Society of New Mexico and the Center for Southwest Research.
In this lecture 2011 History Scholar Katherine Massoth discusses ways white Americans reacted to the environment, clothing, and foodstuffs of New Mexican people between 1846 and 1866. Cuisine and couture became areas where daily practices were absorbed and traded between the colonizers and the colonized and the colonizers learned from the Mexican and Native Americans, slowly changing their own ideas of appropriate standards for food and clothing.
Massoth is a Presidential Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Iowa where she received her M.A. degree in United States History in 2008. She specializes in the history of gender and race in the American West. The lecture was cosponsored by the Office of the State Historian and the Center for Southwest Research at UNM.
Runs: 43:58
Prickly Pears, Serapes, Pueblos and Tortillas: Women in the New Mexico Territory 1846-1866[ 19:32 ]Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (188)
Ashley Sherry, 2011 Office of the State Historian Fellow
Ashley Sherry was the LaDonna Harris fellow (2009-2010) and a Center for Regional Studies fellow in the Center for Southwest Research (2011). She is also a scholar with the Office of the State Historian. Sherry’s research and the focus of this talk is the discourse and model of Indigenous advocacy put forth by LaDonna Harris as it pertains to the return of Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo. LaDonna Harris’ papers and the records of Americans for Indian Opportunity are housed at the Center for Southwest Research in Zimmerman Library. Sherry is introduced by Beth Silbergleit from CSWR and Dennis Trujillo from the Office of the State Historian. Harris attended the talk and reflects on Sherry’s examination of her life’s work.
Runs: 38:31
Fashioning Advocacy: La Donna Harris and the Codification of Values in the Case of Taos Blue Lake[ 38:31 ]Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (220)
Aurore Diehl, the Thomas L. Popejoy Center for Regional Studies Fellow in the Center for Southwest Research in Zimmerman Libraries discusses her research in university archives as she compares two productions done by the Department of Drama at UNM. Diehl is a first year master’s degree student in American Studies. She is interested in the study of gender and sexuality in popular music.
Runs: 8:45
Carousel of Color: Comparing Set Designs of Two Productions of "Liliom"[ 8:46 ]Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (208)
Jessica Gardener, Center for Regional Studies Fellow
Jessica Gardener, the Center for Regional Studies Beatrice Chauvenet Fellow at the Center for Southwest Research in Zimmerman Library talks about the collection of J.B. Jackson, the Father of Cultural Landscape Studies. Gardener, a Master’s student in Landscape Architecture at UNM curated the collection during her fellowship. Her own research is in the area of upland, dry land restoration and water in the urban environment.
Jordan Biro, a Center for Regional Studies George I. Sanchez Fellow at the Center for Southwest Research in University Libraries, gives this talk on her research into the history of the Taos Artists’ Colony and on one member of that colony, writer Myron Brinig. Biro is working toward her Ph.D. on the history of sexual migrations made by gay men and lesbians to the west in the 1940’s – 1970’s. In this talk she discusses Brinig and his insight in to the art colony.
Runs: 12:00
Wide-Open Town: Myron Brinig and the Artists' Colony of Taos, New Mexico[ 12:00 ]Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (128)
Brian Luna Lucero, Center for Regional Studies Fellow
Brian Luna Lucero, the Center for Regional Studies Sophie D. Aberle Fellow at the Center for Southwest Research talks about the 60 year effort for New Mexico to be recognized as a state. His research is part of a larger effort to build a digital portal for the CSWR’s centennial project. He speaks about the political and cultural resistance to admitting New Mexico to the union, and the many failed attempts to have the territory recognized as a state. Lucero is a Ph.D. candidate in History.
Runs: 18:47
Joint Arizona-New Mexico Statehood: Success within a Failed Political Movement[ 18:48 ]Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (147)
Brianne Stein, Center for Regional Studies Digitization Fellow in the Center for Southwest Research talks about the Basque Independent Movement and how it is reflected in the Sam Slick collection via posters and information. Stein enters the Ph.D. program in Architecture in the fall where she will focus on the built environment in the early 20th century.
Sue Taylor, the Center for Regional Studies Fray Angélico Chávez Fellow in the Center for Southwest Research in University Libraries talks about an effort by the Spanish government to settle California with orphans in the early 1800’s. Taylor explains this was one of several schemes by the Spanish government in Mexico City to settle more people on the west coast of North America to protect the rights of the Spanish crown against other European countries. Taylor has just completed her Ph.D. in history at UNM.
Max Fitzpatrick and Ashley Sherry, Center for Regional Studies Fellows
Center for Regional Studies Fellows in the Center for Southwest Research Max Fitzpatrick and Ashley Sherry speak about the Inter-Hemispheric Resource Center collection housed in the CWSR. The collection contains information about the center’s analysis and foreign policy recommendations on a number of issues. Fitzpatrick and Sherry curated the collection as part of their work as Juan and Virginia Chacón Fellows.
Runs: 21.34
Dropping Knowledge, Not Bombs: Inter-Hemispheric Resource Center’s Focus on Foreign Policy[ 21:38 ]Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (157)
Clare Daniel, the Center for Regional Studies Pictorial Collections Fellow in the Center for Southwest Research discusses the Wayne Lambert Collection. Lambert began donating his photographs to the Center in 2006 and has committed to continue to donate his work in the future. In this talk she discusses the themes of Lambert’s work and the way in which it fits into the CSWR collections.
Runs: 9:47
Geology and Landscape Photography: The Dual Value of Wayne Lambert's Work[ 9:48 ]Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (133)
Graduate Student Matt Harris, the Fine Arts Fellow at the Center for Southwest Research has spent the academic year working with “The New Mexico Composers Archive. He is working toward his Master of Musical Performance degree.
In this talk he explores the challenges that archivists face in digitizing information so it will be accessible in the future and the opportunity the archive offers scholars who are interested in composers who have strong ties with the university and with New Mexico. Harris says the NM Composers archive is interesting because it contains original baroque materials, and some audio archives. Work from 30 composers is available in the archive.
PBS President Paula Kerger came to Albuquerque last week. After a visit to UNM’s Children’s Campus with Super Why, Kerger and KNME General Manager Polly Anderson spoke with UNM Today about programming, new media, funding and other issues in public television.
Lisa Gill reads at the UNM Bookstore for National Poetry Month from “Caput Nili,” an illustrated book of poems and essays recounting the true story of what happened when she threatened to hold up an MRI clinic in 2003.
University of Michigan Professor of Anthropology John Mitani talks about “Cooperation among Wild Chimpanzees” during a Sept. 19, 2011 colloquium at the University of New Mexico. He is introduced by Assist. Professor of Anthropology at UNM, Martin Muller.
UNM graduate student Sam Markwell explores the political, economic and cultural conditions in which the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD) was established. Markwell focuses on how it has affected pueblo and acequia communities and their claims to water rights within the larger context of change shaping the twentieth century.
In this lecture 2011 History Scholar Katherine Massoth discusses ways white Americans reacted to the environment, clothing, and foodstuffs of New Mexican people between 1846 and 1866. Cuisine and couture became areas where daily practices were absorbed and traded between the colonizers and the colonized and the colonizers learned from the Mexican and Native Americans, slowly changing their own ideas of appropriate standards for food and clothing.
Brianne Stein, Center for Regional Studies Digitization Fellow in the Center for Southwest Research talks about the Basque Independent Movement and how it is reflected in the Sam Slick collection via posters and information. Stein enters the Ph.D. program in Architecture in the fall where she will focus on the built environment in the early 20th century.
