June 4
Guitar-flute concert to offer varied works
The guitar-flute duo of Gabriel Navia and Diana Schaible will perform at the Arizona Senior Academy at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday.
They'll offer a varied program, beginning with the music of Franz Schubert from the early 19th century through the French romantic/modernism of Jacques Ibert and concluding with the Brazilian composer Guarnieri, who lived from 1907 until 1993.
Navia holds a master's degree in guitar performance from the University of Arizona and is pursuing a doctorate in music theory there. He has served as a graduate teaching assistant for the guitar and theory departments since 2009 and is conductor and artistic director of the Tucson Guitar Society Orchestra. The winner of several awards in this country and Brazil, he has appeared with several important orchestras and ensembles.
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Schaible did her undergraduate work in music at the University of Idaho, where she was principal flute in the university orchestra and played in the flute choir, the jazz choir, the guitar ensemble and the university marching band. In addition to flute, she studied classical guitar at Idaho. She recently received her master's degree in flute performance at the University of Arizona, where she held a teaching assistantship in the Graduate Wind Quintet.
Navia and Schaible have scheduled the Schubert "Arpeggione Sonata" as well as Camargo Guarnieri's "Valsa" for this appearance. The concert will conclude with Jacques Ibert's "Paraboles."
June 5
Water expert discusses management challenges
Reliable and safe water supplies are essential to the health and economic vitality of communities not only in Arizona but throughout the world.
Sharon Megdal, a leading-edge researcher in the field of water conservation, will address many of the challenges facing water managers - and their potential solutions - in a talk Wednesday at the Arizona Senior Academy.
In addition to considering Tucson's reliance on Colorado River water delivered via the Central Arizona Project, she will draw upon her regional and international experiences. Megdal will discuss the many factors that influence water policy and management: growth and competition for water resources; water quality and water reuse; the water-energy nexus; transboundary water management; and environmental water needs.
Megdal, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University, is director of the University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center. She also serves as C.W. and Modene Neely Endowed Professor and Distinguished Outreach Professor at the UA.
Her work focuses on state and regional water resources management and policy, focusing on storage and recovery programs, regional approaches to water management, ecosystem restoration and the role of the private sector in water delivery.
She also writes a public policy column for the Arizona Water Resource, the bimonthly Water Resources Research Center newsletter, and regularly makes presentations on water issues to diverse audiences.
June 6
Talk: Everyday forces behind immigration
Everyday acts as simple as eating a chicken dinner can mask global changes that affect how people make a living and where they must go to earn that living.
Kathleen C. Schwartzman, a sociologist at the UA, specializes in examining how economic transformation reverberates through society. She will discuss these changes in a 3:30 p.m. talk at the Arizona Senior Academy next Thursday.
The talk will focus on findings published in her recent book, "The Chicken Trail: Following Workers, Migrants and Corporations Across the Americas" (Cornell University Press, 2013).
The book explores the impact of globalization - particularly the North American Free Trade Agreement - on the North American poultry industry. It focuses on the displacement of African-American workers in the southeast United States and of small landholders in Mexico.
Her book highlights a contemporary American dilemma: economic transformations have left the U.S. labor market with jobs that "nobody wants," jobs that are shipped overseas and jobs for which American workers are unqualified. It also highlights the global dilemma: In developing nations, as rural survival continues to be undermined by international trade, people attempt to alleviate their poverty by abandoning their countries.
By following this chicken trail, Schwartzman breaks through the deadlocked immigration debate, highlighting the broader economic and political contexts of immigration flows. The narrative that illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans don't want is too simplistic, Schwartzman maintains.
Schwartzman, who holds a Ph.D in sociology from the University of Chicago, argues instead that illegal immigration is better understood as a labor story in which the hiring of undocumented workers is part of a management response to the crises of profit making and labor-management conflict.
About Academy Village
• Events are held in the Great Room of the Arizona Senior Academy Building adjacent to the Academy Village Community Center, 13715 E. Langtry Lane.
• Nonresidents who want to ensure priority seating can make reservations by emailing info@arizonasenioracademy.org or calling 647-0980.
• To learn more about the academy, go to www.asa-tucson.org online.
• Visitors can buy lunch at the Academy Cafe across the courtyard from the Arizona Senior Academy Building. The cafe is open 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Friday. Prices range from $4.50 to $9.50. For more information call the cafe at 647-0903.
• Academy Village is an active-adult community located off Old Spanish Trail six miles southeast of Saguaro National Park East. Its residents support the Arizona Senior Academy, a nonprofit charitable organization whose mission includes offering free concerts and lectures to the public.
Donald J. Behnke Glenda Tonkin Mike Maharry
