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The upcoming colloquium schedule (August 2009) for current and incoming students and advisors will be available on July 24, 2009.
The upcoming colloquium schedule (August 2009) for prospective students, community members, and other guests will be available July 24, 2009.
THINKING LIKE A WATERSHED: A SYNTHESIS OF PHILOSPHY, MYTH, SCIENCE, AND GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM. Jack will address the necessity for expanding our cultural purview far beyond the current economically dominated paradigm, and will refer to decentralist thinkers including Edward Abbey, Gary Snyder, and Lao-tzu to forward a possible point of view commensurate with living in balance with the flow of Nature. He will also speak of geo-mythic mapping as practiced by cultures indigenous to the American Southwest as a means of spiritually affiliating with homeland. Jack will use biogeography as an example of practical science. He will illustrate his remarks by playing excerpts from interviews with Abbey, Snyder, some of his brilliant Native American friends, and bio-geographers Melissa Savage and Dave Hafner, and others as they come to mind. Jack will attempt to convey how “thinking like a watershed” is a splendid metaphor for re-arranging our mental co-ordinates as we attempt to follow the truth no matter where it leads, and apply what we learn to how we comport ourselves both collectively and as individuals. Note: He couldn’t find a wireless microphone powerful enough to conduct a posthumous interview with Lao-Tzu.
THE PRACTICE OF AURAL HISTORY. The practice of aural history has been a major factor in my quest to understand the relationship of cultures to respective habitats. Listening is possibly the most deeply penetrating of the five senses. For this workshop, Jack would like to demonstrate how he records for posterity, how he uses recordings for sound collages and radio programs, and how he incorporates transcribed excerpts from recorded interviews into his books and CDs.
Jack Loeffler is an aural historian, writer, radio producer, and sound collage artist who has made his home in northern New Mexico since 1962. He has produced nearly 300 documentary radio programs including the 13-part series entitled “The Spirit of Place,” and the 6-part series entitled “Moving Waters: The Colorado River and the West.” His most recent productions include a 3-CD sound collage entitled “Portrait in Sound of an Ancient Road: El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro,” and a 13 part documentary radio series concerning cultural elements of the American Southwest entitled “Southwest Sound Collage.”
His books include Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey, La Musica de los Viejitos: The Hispano Folk Music of the Río Grande del Norte, and Headed Upstream: Interviews with Iconoclasts.
He has recently been awarded a 4-year grant from the Ford Foundation to continue his field research throughout the American West and northwestern Mexico addressing the relationships of indigenous cultures to their respective habitats. This grant will also result in a new 13-part radio series, a book entitled “The Lore of the Land,” and the digitization of his aural history archive to be donated to the Museum of New Mexico.
Loeffler has long been an advocate of ‘watershed-thinking” taking precedence over geopolitical thinking. He is soon to begin production of a 4-part radio series concerning the Río Grande watershed.
Current Students and Advisors Only: Here you can download the colloquium schedule for current MAP students and advisors. The full schedule is posted here in PDF and Word formats approximately three weeks prior to each colloquium. It is recommended that if you are going to print a copy of the schedule that you wait until just before your departure for Prescott so that you print the latest revised schedule.
August 21 - 23, 2009
 PDF  Word Will be available, July 24, 2009
November 20 - 22, 2009
January 22 - 24, 2010
April 23-25, 2010 (tenative)
NEW MAP Students Only (Group 36): Here you can download the upcoming new student orientation and current colloquium schedule for new MAP students. The orientation and colloquium schedules are posted here approximately three weeks prior to each New Student Orientation.
August 20 - 23, 2009
PDF Word Will be available, July 24, 2009.
January 21 - 24, 2010 (Group 37)
Fall 2009 new students (Group 36): Please review the correspondence and information provided to assist you in preparing for orientation. Please familiarize yourself with the MAP Student Handbook prior to arriving on August 20, 2009. Thank you.
Prospective Students, Community Members, and Other Guests: Here you can download the community colloquium schedule, which includes all events that are open to the public. The full community schedule is posted here in PDF and word formats approximately three weeks prior to each quarterly colloquium. It is recommended that if you are going to print a copy of the schedule that you wait until just before the colloquium so that you print the latest revised schedule.
August 21 - 23, 2009
PDF Word Will be available July 24, 2009.
Here is the history of our past keynote speakers and also an archive to all colloquium schedules.
Last updated May 19, 2009
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Keynote Presentation: Saturday, May 9, 2009 - 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.