Natalie Farrell

In this talk Natalie Farrell, the Institutional Fellow in the Center for Southwest Research, reflects on her work throughout the academic year as she digitized historic versions of the student newspaper, the Daily Lobo.  The title of her talk is “The Changing Political Attitude of UNM Students during the 20^th Century.”

The complete archives of the Daily Lobo are now available online in the archives of the Lobo Vault.

Farrell is a Ph.D. student in anthropology, working in archaeology.  She has been working in Southwestern archaeology and Geographic Information Systems since graduating with her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona in 2008.  She is specializing in the manufacturing style of Southwestern ceramics.

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Runs: 13:33

Media contact: Karen Wentworth (505) 277-5627; kwent2@unm.edu

Aurore Diehl

Aurore Diehl, the Thomas L. Popejoy Fellow in the Center for Southwest Research discusses “The University Occupied: An Overview of Campus Unrest at UNM in the 1960’s and 70’s.”

Diehl is a graduate of UNM’s American Studies program and a second year Master’s student.  Her research focus is the use of popular music as a lends through which to view issues of gender, sexuality, ethnicity and class, with a special focus on gender and sexuality in hard rock and heavy metal music.  She is working on a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies.

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Runs: 10:46

Media contact: Karen Wentworth (505) 277-5627; kwent2@unm.edu

Thousands of Dominicans risk their lives on outboard-powered wooden boats (known as yolas) to cross the Mona Passage and reach the neighboring island of Puerto Rico. As a commonwealth of the United States, Puerto Rico attracts migrants with its dollar economy and its access to the mainland without a passport or visa. For some migrants Puerto Rico is the final destination; for others it is a stopover en route to New York and other US cities.

Graziano, John D. MacArthur Professor of Hispanic Studies at Connecticut University, summarizes the causes of undocumented migration, describes the methods used by smugglers, follows the migrants from pre-departure to arrival and settlement, and details the response of federal border-enforcement and prosecution agencies. Photographs and video clips taken during the fieldwork and acquired from the US Coast Guard and Border Patrol will be presented alongside the research findings. The ethnographic research for this project included about a hundred interviews with migrants, smugglers, and US border-enforcement officials and culminates in a book, Undocumented Dominican Migration, forthcoming (2012) from the University of Texas Press.

Carolyn McSherry holds the Juan and Virginia Chacon Fellowship and has spent part of the year processing the papers of writer-photographer Nancy Wood.  She is a Ph.D. student in the American Studies program.  Her research is about the challenges posed to 1930s-era agricultural improvement projects in Puerto Rico and on Navajo lands by people who lived in and knew those landscapes, and by others.  She is interested in the relationships between agricultural sciences and colonialism.

In this talk, titled “Wrenching Poetry from the Nancy C. Wood Manuscript Collection” she explores the manuscripts in the Nancy C. Wood manuscript collection and talks about Wood as a writer.  At the beginning of the talk she discusses this poem by Nancy C. Wood.

Hold on to what is good,

even when it is

a handful of earth.

Hold on to what you believe

even when it is

a tree which stands by itself.

Hold on to what you must do

even if it is

a long way from here.

Hold on to life even when

it is easier letting go.

Hold on to my hand

even when I have gone away from you.

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Runs: 15:47

Hanna Thompson, Center for Southwest Research Fellow speaks on “A Scientific Endeavor: Controversy and Conflict in Apollo’s Quest for Lunar Knowledge.” Thompson is a student in the Landscape Architecture Program. For this fellowship she investigated former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt’s role as the first and only scientist in the Apollo Program.

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runs:18:48

Ray Suarez

PBS Sr. Correspondent Ray Suarez talks with UNM Live about the Teacher Town Hall he moderated in Albuquerque as part of PBS’s “American Graduate: Let’s Make It Happen” initiative. New Mexico’s KNME was one of only 20 PBS stations selected to participate in the initiative.

“I am pleased that James Ellis, a UNM grad­u­ate, estab­lished busi­ness pro­fes­sional and dean of one of the top busi­ness schools, has agreed to come to UNM and share his unique per­spec­tive about the future of higher edu­ca­tion,” said UNM Provost Chaouki Abdallah.

The Uni­ver­sity Coun­cil on Aca­d­e­mic Pri­or­i­ties (UCAP) is a group of fac­ulty, admin­is­tra­tors and stu­dents work­ing with Provost Abdal­lah to iden­tify the prin­ci­ple fea­tures of the con­text of higher edu­ca­tion in the coun­try and for UNM to come up with pos­si­ble sets of alter­na­tive aca­d­e­mic direc­tions. The effort is con­ceived as a pre­lude to more for­mal aca­d­e­mic plan­ning that will set goals and make defin­i­tive plans.

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Runs: 1:26:00

Mellon Foundation President Don Randel

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.

Randel talk

Runs: 53:00

Randel Question and Answer session with UNM faculty

Runs:  42:00

Prof. Pradeep Sen with student

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.

Pradeep Sen discusses Monte Carlo Filtering

Runs:  13:14

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.

Hear his conversation with Karen Wentworth here.

Runs:32:32

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.

Cooperation among Wild Chimpanzees

Runs: 53.22

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.

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

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

Aurore Diehl, Center for Regional Studies Fellow

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

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.

Runs: 9:42

Jordan Biro, Center for Regional Studies Fellow

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

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

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Sue Taylor, Center for Regional Studies Fellow

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.

Runs: 22:16