POETRY & PUBLIC FORUM: Species in Peril on the Borderlands
Date: 2019-11-15 18:00:00 – 2019-11-15 20:00:00
At 516 ARTS
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The public is invited to a free forum and poetry performance at 516 ARTS, in conjunction with the current exhibition Species in Peril Along the Rio Grande (on view through December 28). Presented in partnership with the Art & Ecology Program at the University of New Mexico, this event focuses on the US-Mexico borderlands, one of the most biologically diverse places in North America. The region traverses six eco-regions and provides home to 1,506 native terrestrial and freshwater animal and plant species, including 62 species listed as Critically Endangered, Endangered, or Vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List. The proposed expansion of the u201cWallu201d threatens not only human communities but also the incredible diversity of life and binational investment in conservation. This event begins with a poetry performance and is followed by a panel discussion on the history and ecological vitality of the borderlands and the threats facing the region. The line-up of speakers brings together art, science, history and activism.
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Michael P. Berman, one of the artists featured in the exhibition at 516 ARTS, wanders the terrain of the American West and Mexican Norteu00f1o, and more recently, the Gobi of Mongolia. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008 to photograph the Chihuahuan Desert. He has received painting fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Wurlitzer Foundation. His books include: u201cGila: The Enduring Silenceu201d and the first and third books of a border trilogy with writer Charles Bowden, u201cInfernou201d and u201cTrinity,u201d and his newest book u201cPERDIDO.u201d His photographs are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum and the Museum of New Mexico. He has received grants for environmental work from the McCune and Lannan Foundations. In 2013, he was honored with the Governoru2019s Award for Excellence in the Arts in New Mexico.
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Leu00f3n de la Rosa-Carrillo, who will perform a poetry piece in response to the exhibition and will moderate the panel, is a remixologist and pedagogue. He is a professor and researcher in the Art Department at Universidad Autu00f3noma de Ciudad Juu00e1rez since 2005, where he leads courses on audiovisual art, ethics, and contemporary image theory. His videos, poetry, multimedia performances and pedagogies have been shared in Mexico, the United States and Germany, among others. His PhD in Art History and Education is from the University of Arizona, where he researched the language of Internet memes for his dissertation. He lives in San Agustin, a small desert town outside of Ciudad Juu00e1rez; la frontera smashed him into shape.
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Rob Peters, PhD, worked for Defenders of Wildlife, one of the leading national organizations addressing the biological crisis. He authored Defendersu2019 2018 report, u201cIn the Shadow of the Wall,u201d on how the border wall will affect wildlife. He was the first author on a 2018 Bioscience article, signed by more than 3,000 scientists worldwide that called for halting US border wall construction in ecologically sensitive areas. He wrote Defendersu2019 2017 report on possibilities for restoring the jaguar to the US, u201cBringing El Tigre Home.u201d nd he is the author of Defendersu2019 2018 report on how liquified natural gas plants planned for south Texas would threaten the remaining US ocelot population. Prior to joining Defenders in 2014, Rob was executive director of the Western Slope Conservation Center in the small town of Paonia, Colorado, and before that worked for World Wildlife Fund as an expert on how global warming affects biological diversity. Rob was co-editor with Tom Lovejoy of the book u201cClimate CHange and Biological Diversity,u201d author of u201cWarming World,u201d and most recently co-editor with Michael Soulu00e9 on his Island Press book u201cCollected Papers of Michael E. Soulu00e9.u201d Rob received a PhD in biology from Stanford University and a BS with highest honors from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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Ma. Eugenia Hernu00e1ndez Su00e1nchez is a native of the borderlands. She has always moved between Ciudad Juu00e1rez, El Paso and Las Cruces to maintain ties with family and friends. Hernu00e1ndez Su00e1nchez is a Professor at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juu00e1rezu2019s department of Art. She earned a PhD in Critical Pedagogy at New Mexico State University with a concentration on Critical Pedagogies and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Recent work includes, u201cPlacitas-Testimonios: Practicing methodological borderlands for solidarity and resilience in Academiau201d (with Flores Camona, Hamzeh, Bejarano and El Ashmawi, 2019). Guided by transnational feminist perspectives and art-based research, her dissertation focused on understanding and learning from youthu2019s migratory journeys between Mexico and the US, the process of detention and deportation. As a native of the borderlands, she has had the opportunity to learn from the complexities and possibilities of transformation on the border and this has been the center of Ma. Eugeniau2019s community and professional work.
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Samuel Truett, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Southwest at the University of New Mexico, received his PhD in History at Yale University. He is the author of u201cFugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the US-Mexico Borderlandsu201d (2006), co-editor of u201cContinental Crossroads: Remapping US-Mexico Borderlands Historyu201d (2004), and writes broadly on borderlands, environmental, and Native American history. He has been a Fullbright Fellow at the University of Tampere (Finland), and has held major fellowships at the Huntington Library, Newberry Library, John Carter Brown Library, and Istitut du2019Etudes Avancu00e9es (Nantes, France). He has led interdisciplinary efforts at UNM with the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies and Ted Turneru2019s New Mexico ranches. His new work on borderlands in the nineteenth century looks south across the hemisphere and west to the imperial and Indigenous spaces of the Indian Ocean, the China Seas, and the Pacific basin.
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