Did Davy Crockett help define the early American character? How do you handle the generation gap in a workplace environment? Where and how did New Mexican food originate?
If you’ve ever had great conversation and a wonderful meal at the same time, you know what a satisfying experience that can be. University Libraries invites you to sit down for a thought-provoking evening of discussion on these topics and an elegant reception and dinner on Saturday, May 21 in the historic west wing of Zimmerman Library.
Proceeds from this fundraising event will benefit the University Libraries Center for Southwest Research/Special Collections. Tickets are $125 per person, and $200 per couple. For more information contact Dina Ma’ayan, University Libraries, at (505) 277-7197.
Table Hosts
Each table will be hosted by a local expert such as UNM Professor of History Paul Andrew Hutton, who will lead a discussion about Davy Crockett and early American heroes.
Noted Hispanic author Rudolfo Anaya will discuss why humans are driven to tell our stories, and whether writers are born or made.
Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chávez will talk about where we have been as a community, and the possibilities he see for the future of the city.
Associate Dean of the College of Education Breda Bova, who oversees undergraduate programs and does research on mentoring and generations in the workplace will discuss how different generations work together in a day-to-day work environment.
Jane Butel has written sixteen books, and hosts the syndicated PBS show, “Jane Butels’s Southwestern Kitchen.” She will lead a conversation about Southwestern cooking traditions.
UNM Athletics Director Rudy Davalos will share insights into the politics of college sports and the way Title IX has impacted women’s sports.
George Lugar, a professor in the UNM Computer Science Department, and the Psychology and Linguistics Departments will host a discussion about artificial intelligence and whether it is possible for scientists to build a brain.
Judith Phillips has written “Southwestern Landscaping with Native Plants,” “Natural by Design,” “Plants for Natural Gardens,” and “New Mexico Gardener’s Guide.” She is a landscape designer and horticulturist who works with native and arid-adapted plants and teaches native and xeric plant classes at UNM and will share her insights in this special field.
KRQE-TV anchor and journalist Dick Knipfing has 41 years of experience in the Albuquerque media market, and has watched the changing scene in New Mexico politics and public issues. He will host a discussion about news and how it changes.
Historian, author and retired executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center Thomas E. Chávez will discuss how we can learn from New Mexico’s right history the messages of survival, inclusiveness, disagreements, misunderstandings and avoidance of war.
Dean of the UNM School of Law Suellyn Scarnecchia is an expert on adoption in American and the legal problems that can accompany it. She will lead a discussion on the problems that lead to difficult and emotional adoption cases and ways in which to prevent problems.
Dr. Anne Simpson, Chair of the Bio-Ethics Committee at University Hospital, and an Associate Professor with the Department of Internal Medicine/Division of Geriatrics at the UNM School of Medicine is also a practicing physician who specializes in long term care, hospice and palliative medicine issues. She will discuss the issue of tissue banking and the ownership or control of biological materials contributed for research.
About the Center for Southwest Research
Money raised from the event will go to the Center for Southwest Research. This special collections department for University Libraries at the University of New Mexico contains extensive collections of archival materials, music and rare books, with specialties in the American Southwest and Latin America.
The manuscripts collection contains more than 600 collections from individual, business, organizational and ranch records. There are more than 40,000 books in the collection, many of them rare and out of print, along with 38 collections of personal music materials, a pictorial archive with more than 80,000 images dating from the mid-1850’s and the personal and architectural papers of John Gaw Meem.
These sponsors are underwriting the “Tables of Content” fundraising event for the Southwest Center for Research/Special Collections:
RMCI, Inc.
Daniel T. Kelly Jr., The Gross Kelly & Company and Kelly Family Archival Collection
Albuquerque Printing Co.
First State Bank
Doris Rhodes & David Reyes
Nancy Meem Wirth
Xerox of New Mexico and Xerox Global Services
Contact:Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627