Author's Symposium

Author's Symposium

Saturday, September 30, 2006 Sixth Annual Jemez Valley Authors Symposium "The History Around Us" Thomas E. Chavez Lee Marmon Ferenc Szasz List of Books by these Authors You can find out more about these authors by searching on their names on the internet. Note - library will be closed the afternoon of event Thomas E. Chaves (nephew of Fray Angelico Chavez) is the Executive Director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. For 20 years he was the director of the Palace of Governors Museum, in Santa Fe. Lee Marmon is a Laguna Pueblo photographer and recorder of pueblo history. His grandfather, Robert Marmon, was the first white governor of Laguna, and among the scouts who tracked Geronimo. His daughter is the author, Leslie Marmon Silko. Ferenc Szasz (pronounced Frank Saz) is the Regent's Professor of the U.S. Intellectual History and U.S. History of Religion at UNM. He is a nationally recognized historian whose research and expertise are concentrated in American social history, religion in the modern West, the 20th Century West and the history of the Manhattan Project.
September 24, 2005 Fifth Annual Jemez Valley Authors Symposium 2-4 pm, Jemez Valley High School Free & open to the public; book sales & signing afterward Nasario Garcia - link to UNM Press Review Jim Belshaw - link to Albuquerque Journal Joe Sando - link to article in CultureNet List of Books by these Authors You can find out more about these authors by searching on their names on the internet - the links included here were found in that manner. Note - library will be closed at 1:00pm day of event	click on poster to enlarge
Fourth Annual Jemez Valley Authors Symposium Loida Maritza Perez Paula Gunn Allen Judith Van Gieson Moderated by local author Kathleen Wiegner 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25, 2004
Third Annual Jemez Valley Authors Symposium Rina Swentzell John Nichols Demetria Martinez Moderated by Pulitzer Prize winning author N. Scott Momaday September 27, 2003, 1-3 pm
2nd Annual Jemez Valley Authors Symposium Denise Chavez Michael McGarrity Simon Ortiz Moderated by Pulitzer Prize winning author N. Scott Momaday October 5, 2002, 3-5pm NOTE: CD recording of this event available for purchase at the library.
Celebrating New Mexico's Tri-Cultural Heritage: An Author Symposium with Three Famous New Mexico Writers Rudolfo Anaya Tony Hillerman N. Scott Momaday moderated by local author Kathleen Wiegner Saturday 2 February 2002 from 3 to 5pm NOTE: CD recording of this event available for purchase at the library.