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The University of New Mexico

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Contact: Public Affairs Department, 277-5813, paaffair@unm.edu

Video and Photo Opportunities at UNM
November 8 – 12, 2005

Tuesday, Nov. 8

2 – 4 p.m.
World Without Borders: Photographer Subhankar Banerjee discusses his artwork and its place in the artic refuge oil drilling controversy. UNM School of Law room 2404. For more information call Sherri Burr at 277-5650 or visit http://www.unm.edu/news/OctoberReleases/05-10-25arttalk.htm.

Wednesday, Nov. 9

8 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
UNM American Indian Student Day: High school seniors from across New Mexico and Northeast Arizona will learn about higher education at the University of New Mexico. Student Union Building. For more information call 277-6343 or visit http://www.unm.edu/news/OctoberReleases/05-10-28americanindian.htm.

1 – 4 p.m.
Beyond Beads and Feathers: News Coverage of Native Americans: A discussion featuring local and national news media in Zimmerman Library's Willard Reading Room. For more information visit http://www.unm.edu/news/OctoberReleases/05-10-14journalists.htm.

Thursday, Nov. 10

8 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Crossings of Breath: Indigenous & Black Relations in North America: A symposium designed to explore this emerging scholarship and create a dialogue about the politics of identity and American Indian sovereignty. Student Union Building Lobo rooms A and B. For more information visit http://www.unm.edu/news/Sept05Releases/05-09-30symposium.htm.

9:30 a.m.
Freshman Learning Class plants a tree to memorialize the five victims of a shooting spree earlier this year in Albuquerque. Near the Duck Pond. The class instructor is Glenda Balas. For more information contact Karen Wentworth at 277-5627 or kwent2@unm.edu.

2 p.m.
University Libraries honors Fine Arts Professor Jennifer Predock-Linnell with a Faculty Acknowledgement Award in the Willard Reading Room of Zimmerman Library. She and her students will do a dance presentation “Nowhere Slowly.” The event is free, and refreshments will be served. For more information contact Karen Wentworth at 277-5627 or kwent2@unm.edu.

Friday, Nov. 11

7 p.m.
Final Works-in-Progress Reading of the semester: Beverly Army Gillen (fiction), Christina Socorro Yovovich (poetry), Marisa P. Clark (fiction or creative nonfiction). Winnings Coffee, 111 Harvard SE. Free and open to the public. For more information e-mail wasserst@unm.edu or visit http://www.unm.edu/news/OctoberReleases/05-10-11worksinprogress.htm.

Saturday, Nov. 12

10:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Children's Book Fair: UNM Bookstore. For more information call 277-9752.

The University of New Mexico is the state's largest university, serving more than 32,000 students. UNM is home to the state's only schools of law, medicine, pharmacy and architecture and operates New Mexico's only academic health center. UNM is noted for comprehensive undergraduate programs and research that benefits the state and the nation.