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Dogs are welcome. Friam-ers, too.
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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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