Maxwell Museum hosts lecture with ice archaeologist
The UNM Maxwell Museum of Anthropology hosts the Ancestors Lecture with senior archaeologist for the Yukon Government, P. Gregory Hare, on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Hibben Center.
According to UNM, the lecture supports the Archeology on Ice exhibition, funded by the National Science Foundation, currently on display at the Maxwell Museum. Hare presents “A 9,000 year old window to the past: Investigating Yukon’s Ice Patches,” discussing the highlights, challenges and accomplishments of the multidisciplinary Yukon Ice Patch Project and its place in the rapidly expanding new discipline of glacial archaeology.
Melting alpine ice fields in Canada’s Yukon Territory have revealed unprecedented examples of ancient hunting weapons and tools. Researchers have explored these mountains and amassed a collection of artifacts, some locked in the ice for as much as 9,000 years. Research has also provided important data to climate change research while providing vital information to the ways of ancient cultures.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, call 277-1400 or email mhermans@unm.edu.
Tamarind presents urban landscape exhibit
Tamarind Institute will host a public reception for “IntraUrban: The Built Environment,” an exhibition guest-curated by Brendan Picker, in the Tamarind Gallery on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m.
According to UNM, Picker hails from a unique arts background with a strong focus on combining art, design, and city planning. In this exhibition, Picker has chosen select lithographs from Tamarind Gallery’s inventory that focus on the contemporary city landscape.
“In this show, I wanted to focus on how studio artists reflect upon and create artwork about the urban landscape,” he said.
Featured artists include Chester Arnold, Chris Ballantyne, Andrew Dasburg, Harrell Fletcher, Miguel Gandert, Richard Haas, Leonard Lehrer, Nicola López, Joseph Norman, Ana Stojković, RM Palaniappan, and Steve Yates.
The show will run from Jan. 23 to Feb. 27, Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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For more information, visit tamarind.unm.edu or call 277-3901.
Roslyn Brock is Black History Month kick-off brunch speaker
UNM Africana Studies presents their 30th annual Black History Month Kick-off brunch in the SUB Ballroom on Jan. 31 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. According to UNM, this year’s speaker is Roslyn M. Brock, who will focus on civil rights leadership and public health in the 21st century.
Brock is the current chairman of the national board of directors for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She made history in February 2010 when she was unanimously elected as its as its youngest chair. She is one of only four women to hold the position.
Brock was featured in Essence magazine among the 40 fierce and fabulous women who are changing the world, the inaugural broadcast of the Black Entertainment Television show “Black Girls Rock,” received the National Urban League’s Women of Power Award, was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award by George Washington University, and was featured as the February 6 NBC Universal Village Woman of the Week.
Tickets for the brunch are $35 and are available online at unmtickets.com or by phone at 925-5858. For table sales and sponsorship, contact Robert Jefferson at 277-0791 or cdavis2@unm.edu.
UNM professor’s article published in ‘Time’
UNM distinguished professor of history Virginia Scharff is the first author/researcher of the article “Women and the Myth of the American West,” published in Time magazine on Jan. 11.
According to UNM, the article originally appeared on Zócalo Public Square, a website designed for “connecting people to ideas and to each other.”
The article is part of the “What It Means to Be American” series, which asked historians: What opportunities did the American West offer women that they may not have had back East?
Part of Scharff’s answer was that after the Civil War, many women found plenty of opportunities in the West that were not available in the East — everything from the right to vote to equal pay for women teachers to more liberal divorce laws.
The full article can be found at time.com and zocalopublicsquare.org.
~Compiled by Erika Eddy
