Dogs are welcome. Friam-ers, too.
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Coming @ sfX:
Tuesday, October 21 @ 7:00pm
It's a Dog's DNA
Wednesday, October 22 @ 6:00pm
The Media & Society:
Tilted Mirrors
Wednesday, October 29 @ 6:00pm
Whiskey's for Drinking (Finally)
All programs at Santa Fe Complex · 632 Agua Fria · Parking via Romero
St. For more information, call 505/216.7562 or visit sfcomplex.org
16,000 Years of Canine Tales
DNA's Clues to the History of Dogs
October 21 7:00 pm
A wolf pup, cousin to the domestic dog.
Man's best friend is also his oldest animal friend. Analysis of DNA
from dogs worldwide shows that virtually all breeds share an ancestry
of at least 48 female wolves domesticated most likely in southern
China less than 16,000 years ago. The place and time suggest an origin
among sedentary hunter-gatherers or early rice farmers. The origin of
the Australian Dingo will also be discussed. The speaker is Thomas
Leitner of the theoretical division at LANL.
Dogs are welcome to this presentation. If you have an unusual breed
and would like to donate a few hair shafts (with the root) to future
research on dog evolution Dr. Leitner will add it to his sample bank.
The quantitative biology (q-bio) lecture series is dedicated to
dissemination of biological knowledge gained through quantitative
experimentation and computational, mathematical, and/or statistical
analyses of data. The lectures will be presented by internationally-
renowned experts and aimed at the general public.
For more information, visit the q-bio public lecture site. It is
sponsored by the Center for Nonlinear Studies, which works to identify
and study complex nonlinear phenomena using a diverse set of research
approaches and methodologies, particularly those of statistical
physics, nonlinear science, applied mathematics and numerical
simulation. It is a branch of Los Alamos National Laboratory
Tilted Mirrors: Do the Media Influence
or Reflect Society?
October 22 6:00 pm
Journalist, author and professor John Pollock discusses his work at
Santa Fe Complex on Wednesday, October 22 beginning at 6:00 pm.
Instead of studying the impact of media on society, John Pollock has
been studying the impact of society on media. He has developed several
measures to do that, focusing on nationwide coverage of a wide range
of critical issues or events such as stem cell research, physician-
assisted suicide, capital punishment, tobacco advertising to children,
a patient's bill of rights, gun control, oil drilling in Alaska and
trying juveniles as adults.
Pollock calls his approach a "community structure" approach, examining
links between community demographics and variations in reporting on
political and social change. His book, Tilted Mirrors: Media Alignment
with Political and Social Change (Hampton Press), was published last
November. He teaches this approach twice a year in his communication
methods classes in the communication studies department at the College
of New Jersey. His students win state, regional and national awards
for the resulting papers they present at professional/scholarly annual
conferences (including those organized by the Association for
Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, International
Communication Association and National Communication Association).
What the critics say:
John Pollock's impeccable study is a terrific piece of research and
belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who wants to know how the press in
America truly operates. His unsettling findings go far beyond previous
work in illuminating the relationship between a community and its
daily paper, forcing journalists to rethink comfortable assumptions
and requiring faculty to revise the way they teach and write about the
press.
Thomas E. Patterson, The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press,
Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University, author, "The Vanishing Voter"
John Pollock's Tilted Mirrors book enters a new theoretical and
methodological domain in explaining media content on politics and
public affairs. His "community structure approach", seeks explanations
for journalists' news decisions in the wider social structure of the
community, conceptualizing the local newspaper as a "community
institution", not--as is the case in most other approaches--as a
professional world of its own. Unlike most community case studies, the
methodological innovation of this book lies in samples of multiple
cities and their newspapers.
Wolfgang Donsbach, Institute for the Study of Communications, Dresden
University of Technology, Germany, editor, "International Encyclopedia
of Communication"
Community structure analysis holds great promise for media and public
policy research, and John Pollock's elaboration of the concept
transforms the notion of "community pluralism" into a well grounded
and empirically validated approach toward understanding the ways in
which power actually operates on and through the press, helping to
reveal the ways interests, positions of privilege and status among key
stakeholders work together to determine how these issues will be
framed in different communities.
Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., Annenberg School for Communication, University of
Pennsylvania, co-editor, "Framing Public Life"
Whiskey's for Drinking,
Part II
October 29 6:00 pm
To a degree we are facing the question of whether we are here to
"skin" the Southwest and then get out, or whether we are here to found
a permanent civilized community with room to grow and improve. - Aldo
Leopold, Pioneers and Gullies (1922)
sfComplex practitioners Kim Sorvig and Paul Paryski are joined by
RiverSource's Rich Schrader for the second blender on water issues.
Sorvig and Paryski will present a broad analytic perspective of New
Mexico's limited water resources and how they are managed--or,
perhaps, mismanaged--that encompasses history, traditions, treaties,
laws, multilevel regulations, varied ecosystems, geology, competing
stakeholders, landscapes, climate change and, of course, politics.
Schrader will explore online portfolios for citizen-stewards to tell
stories of place, health, and restoration of ecological function and
form. Using the newly released WatershedWiser.org and other web
portals, participants will have a brief tour of current "data-to-
information" tools for watershed residents, scientists, and
restoration practitioners.
For more information, visit the sfComplex home page.
Come Visit Us
Santa Fe Complex is located in the Railyard Art District within
walking distance of the hotels, restaurants and shops at the plaza
downtown. We're housed in two facilities, the project space at 624
Agua Fria and the work space at 632 Agua Fria.
The conference area contains meeting rooms and facilities for short-
term use associated with on-going sfComplex projects. The project
space houses the great room, where we hold events and offer Internet
access, working facilities, a coffee lounge and work carrels for
laptop users.
While there is parking at 624 Agua Fria, the Romero Street parking lot
is more conveniently located for the 632 facility. Romero St. is an
old-style Santa Fe ox-cart road just east of the 624 driveway. Follow
it until it opens up to two lanes and turn hard right into the parking
lot for 632.
Here's a map to our location, a representative shot showing the
Railyard District and a sketchup drawing of the facility at 632. For
more information, call 505/216.7562 or click here.
Don Begley
Managing Director
Santa Fe Complex
624 Agua Fria St
Santa Fe, NM 87501
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