UNM Professor Michael Campana, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, opens a fall lecture series on “The Culture of Water” Aug. 24 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Woodward Hall, room 147. Will we have enough water to sustain current populations and lifestyles? Compana’s talk “Sustainability in the Southwest: Did We Trade Our Cadillac Desert for a Chevy?” will look into the future. He will examine hydrology, water resources and modern society in the Southwest with an emphasis on our “hydraulic society.” Campana is the director of the UNM Water Resources Program.
UNM talks are scheduled in the same room from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. (unless time is indicated) on Tuesdays through Oct. 12. The lectures are a component of the UNM Voices of the Southwest policy series and are free and open to the public. The series is presented by the UNM Evening and Weekend Degree Program.
A full panel discussion is scheduled for Tuesday September 14, and a town hall is tentatively set for Saturday, Nov. 20.
On Aug. 31, Craig Childs will discuss his book “The Secret Knowledge of Water.” Childs is a naturalist, adventurer, desert ecologist and frequent contributor to National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. He lives in Crawford, Colo. His previous books include “Crossing Paths,” and “The Desert Cries.”
On Sept. 7, UNM Professor of Art and Art History Basia Irland will present “Water Library: A Sculptor’s Research Into the Phenomenon of Water.” Through slides and a video, Professor Irland will investigate her artwork, focused on water for the past 25 years.
“Robert Glennon shares from his book “Water Follies, Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America’s Fresh Water” on Oct. 5.
Other public talks are as follows:
• Tues, Sept. 14, panel discussion with presenters to include: F. Lee Brown, UNM Economics Department, on the topic “Rivers for Sale?” Sylvia Rodriguez, UNM Anthropology Department, who discusses “Acequias and the Moral Economy of Water Sharing,” and the Honorable Peter Pino, governor, Pueblo of Zia, an expert on “Water Policies at the Pueblo of Zia.”
• Tues, Sept. 21, José Rivera, UNM Public Administration, discusses “Acequia Culture on the Rio Grande: Paisaje del Agua.” Rivera presents a slide show of community ditches of the Upper Rio Grande bioregion with an emphasis on the social ecology of human settlement.
• Tues, Sept 28, Bonnie Colby, Prof., agricultural and resource economics and hydrology and water resources, University of Arizona, presents “Water As Sacred, Water As Commodity.” Her talk begins at 7:30 p.m.
• Tues, Oct 12, Marilyn C. O’Leary, UNM School of Law, talks about “Water in the Southwest: Promise and Paradox.”
For more information, contact Michael Campana at wrp@unm.edu or 277-7759.
Contact: Laurie Mellas-Ramirez (505) 277-5915
Posted by kwentworth at August 10, 2004 04:00 PM