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Contact: Carolyn Gonzales 277-5920
cgonzal@unm.edu

June 1, 2006

UNM Offers Two Intercultural Summer Field Schools

Two interdisciplinary summer field schools are being offered this summer. “Imagining New Mexico Across Cultures,” offered during the first session, June 5 – July 1, 9 to 11:30 a.m.; and “Inter-Cultural Legacies of New Mexico,” is being offered during the second summer session, July 3-29, also from 9 to -11:30 a.m. Both are Monday through Friday.

Communication and Journalism Professor Miguel Gandert teaches the first field school. He said, “ New Mexico is a crossroads where culture, place and identity are continually being revisioned and negotiated in the imaginary spaces of film and literature. This festival seminar features a variety of guest writers, filmmakers and thinkers who have all helped put New Mexico on the map.”

Work by directors D.W. Griffith, Moctezuma Esparza, Robert Redford and Danny Lyon will be shown. Featured writers include Governor Miguel Antonio Otero, Rudolfo Anaya, Tony Hillerman, Edward Abbey, John Nichols and Pat Mora.  Featured scholars include Gabriel Meléndez, Susan Dever, Enrique Lamadrid and Jack Loeffler.

This first school is cross-listed in American Studies, Chicano Hispano Mexicano Studies and Communication and Journalism.

The second field school is cross-listed in Chicano Hispano Mexicano Studies, Native American Studies and Communication and Journalism. “The field school on intercultural legacies focuses specifically on culture bearers, mediators and brokers,” said Enrique Lamadrid, director, Chicano Hispano Mexicano Studies.

The field-based seminar is a hands-on introduction to ethnographic and biographical documentation in multiple digital formats. It also includes training in photography, video, audio recording and editing.  Other experiences include exploring interview techniques, field notes, archiving, analysis and the ethics of cultural representation.

        A survey of cultural history and landscape will provide the context within which exceptional individuals have distinguished themselves in folk and popular creative traditions.  Students will present research in a multi-media seminar.

For more information, call Enrique Lamdrid, 269-5569.

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