 Former UNM Visiting Faculty Member Receives Nobel Prize in Literature
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, formerly a visiting faculty member at UNM, is the 2008 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Le Clézio has written more than 30 books since 1963.
Le Clézio was visiting faculty of modern and classical languages at UNM, 1977-78 and 1984-85, and visiting faculty in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 1992-93, when he also held the PNM Endowed Chair.  [More]
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 ‘Psychology of Genocide’ Focus of UNM Bookstore Lecture
Clinical psychologist Steven K. Baum uses eyewitness accounts in his book “The Psychology of Genocide,” which he will discuss and sign Friday, Oct. 10 at 4 p.m. at the UNM Bookstore, 2301 Central Ave. NE, at the intersection of Cornell and Central. Parking will be validated in the parking structure for up to one hour with purchase.
In the last century, 262 million people have been victims of genocide, with Jews, Armenians, Cambodians, Darfurians, Kosovons and Rwandans among them. The horrors of genocide are more poignant as patterns emerge. There are those who commit brutal acts, there are those who resist genocide and help victims, and there are those who position themselves in the middle, taking neither side. Baum reveals what patterns of personality and psychology emerge during wartime that give rise to these conditions. [More] [Department of Psychology] |
 Cold War Exiles in Mexico
New Book by Rebecca M. Schreiber, Assistant Professor of American Studies
The onset of the Cold War in the 1940s and 1950s precipitated the exile of many U.S. writers, artists, and filmmakers to Mexico. Rebecca M. Schreiber illuminates the work of these cultural exiles in Mexico City and Cuernavaca and reveals how their artistic collaborations formed a vital and effective culture of resistance.
Schreiber recounts, the first exiles to arrive in Mexico after World War II were visual artists, many of them African-American. [More] |
UNM faculty members Keith M. Prufer (anthropology) and Yemane Asmerom (Earth and Planetary Sciences) were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation program Human and Social Dynamics.
Their project, Development and Resilience of Complex Socioeconomic Systems: a Theoretical Model and Case Study from the Maya Lowlands, focuses on modeling human responses to environmental transformation by linking together processes of settlement, resource exploitation, agricultural intensification, competition, and polity stability.
The project will test the model using archaeological data from Uxbenka, a Maya polity that formed in southern Belize 2,000 years ago, and develop a climate record for southern Belize spanning 2500 years.
The interdisciplinary award for $899,089 was made to UNM and collaborators at University of Oregon, University of California at Davis, University of Southern California, University of South Florida, and the Government of Belize with UNM receiving $274,305.
Human and Social Dynamics is an NSF priority funding area that fosters breakthroughs in understanding the dynamics of human action and development, as well as knowledge about organizational, cultural, and societal adaptation and change. |
  Cross-Border Group Travels to Chiapas
Richard Schaefer, associate professor, Communication & Journalism, led his UNM Cross-Border Issues Group from their base in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, to the state of Chiapas to further their research on immigration.
Schaefer’s group last year focused on Mexican immigration to the United States. This year, the perspective was expanded to include immigration from Guatemala to Mexico as well as intra-Mexico migration.
The trip included crossing the Mexican-Guatemalan border seeing the difference between that international border and the muro, or wall, being erected between the U.S. and Mexico. [More] |
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