You are invited to the Spring Semester Kick-Off at Saint John\'s United Methodist Church on Tuesday, January 10, from 10AM-11AM.
Come and bring your questions, meet the Board Members, and Register!
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Almost three years have passed since President Barak Obama gave his historic "New Beginning" speech in Cairo in which he highlighted his vision of future relations with the Muslim world through the engagement of Muslim communities. The speech helped put to rest the perception that many Muslims held during the previous administration that the war on terror was a war on Islam. The "Arab Spring" and the toppling of dictatorial regimes have created new challenges and opportunities for the U.S. in dealing with post-autocratic governments. The lecture will highlight the diversity and complexity of the Muslim world and will examine the Arab pro-democracy movements and the challenges and opportunities they have created.
Emile Nakhleh holds a PhD from the American University, Washington, DC in International Relations. Before retiring from the U.S. Government in 2006 as a Senior Intelligence Service Officer, he was a senior analyst and director of political Islam analysis globally and of regional analysis in the Middle East. Since 2006 he has consulted on national security issues, particularly Islamic radicalization, terrorism, and political activism.
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Flutist Carol Redman presents an intimate concert of some of her favorite flute music, from the Middle Ages to the Modern Ages, illustrating that the lives, loves, and losses of humankind cross borders, boundaries, centuries, and cultures. She will be joined in this event with her favorite cohort, Alaina Diehl, partner in crime for all things flute.
Carol is the principal flutist for Santa Fe Pro Musica and is a former member of the Santa Fe Opera and New Mexico Symphony Orchestras. She has performed with orchestras, music festivals, and concert series across North America, Germany, and Japan. Her recordings on Koch, Dorian, and private labels have received accolades including a Grammy Nomination for Best Classical Music/Small Ensemble.
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Learn the intricacies of programming an orchestral season in both philosophy and reality. Stephen Smith will elaborate on the functioning of an orchestra and its players, comparing and contrasting the Santa Fe Symphony with the Richmond Symphony. Audition procedures for players and conductors will also be discussed.
Steven Smith has been Music Director of the Santa Fe Symphony and Chorus since 1999 and the Richmond Symphony since 2010. He was Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1997-2003. A violinist, Smith began his career as Concertmaster of the Grand Rapids Symphony. He does guest conducting throughout the world and was named 2008 Ohio Composer of the Year.
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According to the esteemed New Mexican historian, Marc Simmons, Christopher \'Kit\' Carson possessed the three Ingredients necessary for American heroism: conviction, courage, and character. Carson was a man of his times, reflecting the spirit and temper of the 19th century when Americans looked west longing for land, opportunity, and United States political control. Carson constantly offered his life for his friends, followers, and troops. He gave no quarter to his enemies, yet was loyal and devoted beyond reproach to family, friends, and his military superiors. Some see him as sympathetic to the plight of the American Indian, while others see him as an Indian fighter and foe.
Alan Osborne\'s academic interests focus on American Indian and Spanish Colonial frontier history. Co-founder of Southwest Seminars in New Mexico, Alan lectures regularly on history for many alumni and museum groups. He is a native of Oklahoma from a pioneer family. His most recent class for Renesan was New Mexico History: 1700-1900 in Fall 2011.
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Cherie Burns discusses her biograpy: Searching for Beauty—The Life of Millicent Rogers, the first comprehensive biography of the Standard Oil heiress and fashion icon, published by St. Martin’s Press in September 2011. Rogers\'s story is a quintessentially American saga of a woman who re-invented herself in every decade of the first half of the 20th century. Burns, a journalist, will also discuss the challenge of writing the first biography of a subject almost 60 years after her death.
Cherie Burns is the author of four books including the biography: Searching for Beauty—The Life of Millicent Rogers, published in 2011. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications.
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This presentation recalls the travels and travails of the overlanders, pioneers who headed west in the mid-19th century hoping to improve their economic status. Traveling primarily in family groups made up of several wagons, women and men had similar goals but very different roles on the 2,000-mile journey. Whether taking the northern route via the Oregon Trail or heading southwest along the Santa Fe Trail, women were challenged in maintaining their traditional gender roles of preparing food, mending garments, watching over children, and generally replicating their roles back home. They did these things as they traveled the dusty, muddy trails while giving birth and sometimes burying tiny bodies along the way. Despite these hardships, they enjoyed the beauty of the mountains and plains and carried in their hearts the hope for a prosperous, happy life in a still largely unknown region.
Sandra Schackel is a graduate of the University of New Mexico and has recently retired from 23 years of teaching American history primarily at Boise State University. A social and popular culture historian, Sandy has taught many classes on women in America and the West. She has published three books and numerous articles. Her most recent book is Working the Land: The Stories of Ranch and Farm Women in the Modern American West.
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Why do we overspend on treatment and underspend on prevention in our society? Based on his forthcoming book, Prevention vs. Treatment: What\'s The Right Balance?, Dr. Faust will explore economic, legal, philosophical, psychological, and cultural/religious views on the appropriate balance between prevention and treatment.
Halley S. Faust, MD, MPH, MA is a physician, philosopher, and President-Elect of the American College of Preventive Medicine.
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Global warming is the legacy of the industrialized world, especially of the United States. However, the U.S. has yet to enact legislation to control the pollution from greenhouse gases despite record heat, drought, flooding, and other indicators of climate change. Where do we stand in 2012? What can we do in light of this national failure? This lecture will cover the current regulatory scheme for control of greenhouse gasses including city, state, national, and international controls. It also will examine non-regulatory approaches such as technological innovation. Participants will leave with a better understanding of what needs to be done and how to do it.
Denise Fort is a Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law and Director of the School’s Utton Center. She writes about environmental law, water policy, river restoration, and climate policy. She chaired the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission and served as Director of New Mexico’s Environmental Improvement Division. Contact: fortde@law.unm.edu
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Blair House, the President\'s guesthouse since World War II, is across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House and hosts only chiefs of state and heads of government at the President\'s specific invitation. Benedicte Valentiner, "Mrs. V," general manager and innkeeper of Blair House from 1988 to 2001, served four Presidents and six Secretaries of State and created an atmosphere that impressed, calmed, cajoled, and comforted the world\'s leaders. Learn the history of this important landmark and the secrets, shenanigans, and quirks of the world\'s movers and shakers backstage where "everything is otherwise."
Trained in the hotel business in Europe, Danish-born Benedicte Valentiner served as the innkeeper of Blair House for 12 years. During her tenure, she managed 200 visits of presidents, prime ministers, kings and queens; organized 300,000 meals; and hosted more than 200,000 visitors. She is the author of the recently published Bedtime and Other Stories from the President\'s Guest House.
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Douglas Meiklejohn, founder and director of the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, will describe its work and mission. He will discuss how the law center has taken on some of the largest corporations in New Mexico—and the world—in order to protect our state\'s environment and people. He\'ll talk about important past and current cases including the Sunland Park medical waste incinerator, uranium mining near Crownpoint and Church Rock on the Navajo Reservation, and proposed oil and gas drilling in the Galisteo Basin. He will also address the ethical and legal questions of locating polluting industries in ethnic and low income communities.
Douglas Meiklejohn, a 40-year resident of Santa Fe, founded the New Mexico Environmental Law Center (NMELC) in 1987 and serves as its current director. NMELC is one of the few non-profit law firms in the nation to focus on protecting low-income communities and communities of color from pollution and degradation.
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Steve will share his perspective on the inner-workings of the New Mexico State Legislature and the 2012 Legislative session. With our new governor and several new representatives, the Legislative session should provide interesting questions and discussion points for this lecture.
Steve Terrell is a columnist and reporter for The New Mexican, focusing on local and state government.
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From ballet to ballroom, from flamenco to modern, from the frontier jig to the jitterbug, dance has formed a vital part of American culture. Throughout our history, many American visual artists have explored the subject of dance and have tried to capture the graceful, rhythmic, amusing, innovative, or shocking ways dancers move. Visual artists have imaged both the celebrated—those whose names have become household words such as Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Josephine Baker, and Martha Graham—and the obscure, such as the anonymous couples who struggled through Depression-era dance marathons to earn a paycheck.
Sharyn Udall will present an illustrated talk, based on her new book, Dance and American Art: A Long Embrace, which demonstrates the fascination many American painters, sculptors, and photographers have for this subject. She will discuss the ways these dance images have reflected and shaped American culture for the last two centuries.
Sharyn Udall, PhD, is an art historian, independent curator, longtime college instructor, and author of nine books on various aspects of American and European art.
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Celebrating another semester of great classes, lectures, and trips…
Enjoy your year-end celebrations.
Classes, lectures, and field trips for 2012 are just around the corner. Have a sneak peek on this page.
See you next semester!
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