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Lectures

University Libraries Faculty Acknowledgment Program

Stop Sleeping on Your Cash
Learning About Personal Finance and Investing

Susan Awe, Associate Professor
and Regent's Lecturer
University Libraries


April 16th, 2009 - 3:00 pm
Willard Room, Zimmerman Library

Many people lack an adequate understanding of personal finance, which leads to increases in consumer debt and consumers investing blindly.  The skills necessary to make wise financial decisions include 1) Understanding how money works, 2) Learning about investment strategies, 3) Understanding the principles of financial planning.  Find out what resources will help you get the information you need to make wise investment decisions.  Also refer to the Parish LibGuides for information on investing:  http://libguides.unm.edu/investment

 

University Libraries' Indigenous Nations Library Program
Native Pathways Lecture Series

Personal Mythologies from Robots to Pinups:
Artwork by Ryan Singer

Thursday, April 23, 2009
UNM Zimmerman Library

Brown Bag Discussion, 12-1 pm Herzstein Room
Lecture, 4-6 pm Willard Reading room


During his presentation Ryan will tell about his childhood, adult experiences and what inspired him to become an Artist.  He will explain what he does as an artist, how he balances creativity and business, his influences, processes of creating art and what he believes is in the near future.  As an artist, comic books, native art, pop art, surrealism, and recent underground art movements from all over the globe have influenced Ryan’s artwork.  He utilized a twist of bold and unique styles within his artwork, which tend to exhibit a humorous view of his culture and upbringing.

Speaker biography:
Ryan Singer was born in 1973 in Cedar City, Utah.  He is a member of the Diné Nation and originally from Tuba City, Arizona.  He currently resides and works out of his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico.. 

He has done illustrations for a bilingual (Diné / English) children’s book titled "Johonaa' ei': Bringer of Dawn", which was published by Salina Bookshelf Inc. and is in distribution as of July 2007.

Ryan just completed working with PBS's “American Experience”; on a documentary of a painting he did in 2005 titled “Sheep is good food”. This painting was a depiction of the famous Andy Warholian design of the “Campbell's Tomato Soup Can”. Singer mimicked the iconic pop image and made it his own, focusing on the Diné culture of mutton stew and encompassing the idea of "Navajo Mutton Stew in a can", like Campbell’s soup.

Ryan’s painting titled “Generations” was featured on the cover of the January/February 2009 edition of Native Peoples magazine.  His painting is one of two art pieces ever featured on the cover of Native Peoples magazine. 

Savannah Gene, Lecture Series Coordinator
Indigenous Nations Library Program
savgene@yahoo.com
(505)277-7433 (Work)


 

University Libraries' Center for Southwest Research and
the Office of the State Historian Present

The Federal Presence in New Mexico:
The Statehood Era and First Fifty Years to 1962

David V. Holtby, Center for Regional Studies

April 28th, 2009
Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Willard Room, Zimmerman Library

A brown-bag lunchtime presentation on Tuesday April 28 entitled   “Stories of the Federal Presence in New Mexico, 1900-1940” will be given by Dr. David Holtby, a recent recipient of a fellowship from the Office of the State Historian Scholar Program. The talk, and about thirty-five accompanying slides, will be held in the Willard Reading Room in the west wing of UNM’s Zimmerman Library from 12:00 until 1:00 PM.

Dr. Holtby will discuss how the federal government addressed modernization and the impact its decisions had on New Mexicans between 1900 and 1940. Changes in the economy, social relations, and the environment are examined to see how Native Americans, blacks, nuevomexicanos, and Anglos interacted with the U.S. government.

The complicated, often uncoordinated, and sometimes contradictory activities of the judicial, legislative, and executive branches are situated within a consideration of how government laid the foundations for the welfare state and the rise of corporate capitalism in the first half of the twentieth-century. The former is discussed through the rise of demands for veteran pensions as a precursor to social security, while the latter is traced to the origins of agro-business.

Dr. David Holtby is a one-quarter-time staff member of the Center for Regional Studies at UNM. He spent twenty-eight years in scholarly publishing and retired as Editor in Chief and Associate Director of the University of New Mexico Press in 2006.    

 

University Libraries Faculty Acknowledgment Program


April 29, 2009 - 2:00 pm
Willard Room, Zimmerman Library

Everybody is Watching Everybody:
Privacy Implications of Geospatial Technologies

Paul Zandbergen
Department of Geography
University of New Mexico

Recent technological developments have made location information at the individual level widely available, which presents serious and poorly understood challenges to personal privacy. These developments include the widespread adoption of positioning technologies on mobile devices, the availability of very high-resolution imagery and address databases, and the ability to pull information together from multiple sources using free and easy-to-use software tools. For example, with the adoption of GPS-enabled chips and other hybrid positioning systems the cell phone has emerged as a very powerful location-aware tracking device. While many users start to actively use this technology, for applications like navigation and social networking, the implications for location privacy are far reaching. The presentation will review these technological developments and discuss how they work, what their potential benefits are and how they are affecting personal privacy.

Dr. Paul Zandbergen is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of New Mexico. He obtained his PhD in Resource Management and Environmental Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Prior to coming to UNM he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of South Florida. He is a Geographic Information scientist with interests in  both the fundamentals of GI Science as well as the applications of  geospatial technologies to several fields, including water resources, spatial ecology, public health, and criminal justice. His current research has focused on issues of scale, error and uncertainty in spatial analysis, as well as on the robustness of spatial analytical techniques and the performance of positioning systems, including GPS and hybrid positioning. He is currently conducting a research project funded by the National Science Foundation on reverse geocoding techniques and their implications for location privacy.

Form more info: pcamp@unm.edu

 

Exhibits




Revolution in Retrospect:
50 years of social change in Cuba

February 21 - April 15, 2009

Reception, April 3, 3:00 p.m
Herzstein Gallery

University Libraries hosts exhibit and reception commemorating the Cuban Revolution.

The exhibit “Revolution in Retrospect:  50 years of social change in Cuba” is open to the public in the Herzstein Latin American Gallery on the second floor of Zimmerman Library. There is an exhibit reception on April 3, 2009 at 3:00 pm.  Members of the public are welcome.

Fifty years ago a group of Cuban patriots, in alliance with rural campesinos and urban students, proved that a concerted armed rebellion could defeat a dictator's army and bring social revolution to Cuba. From that moment on, Cuba has played a historic role on the world stage—inspiring many, while frustrating its powerful neighbor with the inseparable combination of dogged independence and evolving socialism.

Initially conducted by charismatic leadership and legitimated through mass mobilization, the Cuban Revolution has matured into an institutionalized socialist state capable of peaceful changes, both political and economic. The long rule of Fidel Castro transitioned seamlessly—guided by input from the Communist party, mass organizations, and neighborhood voting—into a new administration headed by Raul Castro. The early experiments with moral incentives and economic planning have given way to a mixed economy where realism confronts idealism. The Cold War support from the Soviet Union has been replaced by renewed integration with Latin America and the wider world.
Throughout, Cuba has ensured freedoms, in the form of universal health care and free education, which have never been disrupted—not by economic crises, devastating hurricanes, antagonistic exiles, nor the US blockade.

While some democratic deficiencies and socialist inefficiencies exist, Cuba has survived the permanent US threat and remains independent. Its leadership is avowedly open to necessary changes and improved relations with the US; and its citizens are ever able to determine the nation's course on their own terms.

This exhibit, composed of Zimmerman Library holdings and student contributions, offers a glimpse into the island and its people. Books, posters and other ephemera depict key figures and themes from its revolutionary decades. Contemporary photographs reveal the social reality of everyday life alongside official state messages. Lectures by academics, diplomats, storytellers and students will provide added dimension to our understanding of the Cuban Revolution at its half century mark.

Sponsored by the University Libraries’ Division of Iberian & Latin American Resources & Services (DILARES), the Latin American & Iberian Institute and the Gorham Foundation. For more information contact mboravi@unm.edu.

Student Chapbook Exhibit

April 10-April 30, 2009
Zimmerman Lobby and Reference Area

This exhibit features chapbooks handmade in Dr. Feroza Jussawalla’s class, English 322, Intermediate Creative Writing Poetry Workshop, with help from Linney Wix. Chapbooks were an early form of small, inexpensive popular books sold on the street by peddlers or “chapmen,” and consisted of a few pages, often illustrated with woodblock prints. They usually contained poetry, songs, religious tracts, or stories. Popular from the 17th through 19th centuries, chapbooks are still available today.

This exhibit will be on display at Zimmerman Library till the end of April.

 

Take a Coffee Break
Exhibit in Parish Memorial Library
March 31 to April 24, 2009

This display features books relating to the production, marketing and business of coffee. Books from the Parish and Zimmerman Libraries are included. All books are available for check out to staff, students and faculty.

MINTEL MARKET RESEARCH REPORTS is the featured database. Mintel offers market research reports covering US and International marketplaces. Each report combines data & analysis of the competitive landscape, market-share analysis and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market. (It's a great resource!)

Come and see the books, 35 coffee cups, coffee-flavored products, lyrics to some classic Coffee blues songs, and a vintage Maxwell House coffee pot (it is well worth the walk over)...and pick up some coffee trivia.

Featured titles:

150 anos de café
Annual coffee statistics
An archaeology of social space : analyzing coffee plantations in Jamaica's Blue Mountains
The birth of coffee
Breve historia del café en Michoacán
Brewing justice : fair trade coffee, sustainability, and survival
Café & negro : contribuição para o estudo da economia cafeeira de São Paulo na fase do trabalho servil
Café : histórico, negócios, e elite
Coffee : the epic of a commodity
Coffee : the political economy of an export industry in Papua New Guinea
Coffee and peasants : the origins of the modern plantation economy in Guatemala, 1853-1897
Coffee and the Ivory Coast : an econometric study
A coffee frontier : land, society, and politics in Duaca, Venezuela, 1830-1936
Coffee with pleasure : just java and world trade
Coffee, contention, and change in the making of modern Brazil Coffee, society, and power in Latin America
Coffee: economic impact
Coffeemakers = Macchine da caffè
Conflictos regionales : la crisis del eje cafetero
El Cafe Cereza en Mexico Tecnologia de la Produccion
El cafe en Colombia, 1850-1970 : una historia economica, social y politica
El café en México
Exportar es progresar? : análisis de las exportaciones bolivianas : el caso del café
Grande expectations : a year in the life of Starbucks' stock
The history of coffee in Guatemala
The Kona coffee story : along the Hawaii Belt Road
Negócios de famílias : mercado, terra e poder na formação da cafeicultura mineira 1780-1870
O cafe, sua produccao e exportacao
Organic coffee : sustainable development by Mayan farmers

 

Yuyanapaq: Para Recordar

April 21 to June 12, 2009
Herzstein Reading Room and Gallery

"Yuyanapaq: Para Recordar" includes 40 select photographs chosen from a 2003 Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission exhibit exceeding 200 pieces of photo-journalism taken throughout a 20 –year civil conflict between the Peruvian Military, the Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. The exhibit is a testimonial to the suffering of the Peruvian people during the last two decades of the 20th century, a time known by many as manchaytimpu, or “time of fear”. Together the above mentioned armies murdered or disappeared over 70,000 people in Peru.

The photographs of ‘Yuyanapaq’(which means to remember in Quechua) record some of the many atrocities committed recently in Peru in hopes of averting any comparable and future tragedy. These photographs inspire visceral reactions because they put a human face on a national tragedy which touched so many lives in so many different ways. The photographs in this travelling exhibit should inform and stand as a reminder of what happened and that it cannot be forgotten or repeated. The Department of Inter-American Studies within the University Libraries is proud to host this important and emotionally moving exhibit in the Herzstein Reading and Conference rooms at Zimmerman Library from April 21 to June 12.

Please note that some photos may depict graphic violence or disturbing images.