SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
SEPTEMBER VOICES 2025
MONDAY NIGHTS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE
LECTURES – 50 MONDAYS A YEAR
A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE
September 1 Dr. Stephen H. Lekson
Curator of Archaeology, Jubilado, Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado; A History of the Ancient Southwest; Chaco Meridian: Centers of Power in the Ancient Southwest; Archaeology of the Mimbres Region, Southwestern New Mexico, USA; Editor, Archaeology of Chaco Canyon; and former Editor, Kiva Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History. Known as the ‘big picture guy’, he has tied together the Ancient Southwest, Northern Mexico, and Mesoamerica in fine fashion His provocative and expansive views on the relationship of postclassic Mexican cultures and centers of influence on American Southwest cultural developments gives pause for thought and consideration by those who wonder what were the connections between these places?
How I Learned to Think (Big…about the Southwest)
September 8 Dr. Catherine M. Cameron
Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado; Author, Captives: How Stolen Peoples Changed the World; Chaco and After in the Northern San Juan: Excavations at the Bluff Great House; ‘Injection: An Archaeological Approach to Slavery;’, in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History (eds: D.A. Pargas/J. Schiel); Co-Ed. (w/B.Bowser) Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America; Landscapes of Movement and Predation: Perspectives from Archaeology, History, and Anthropology. 2024 Recipient, Alfred P. Kidder Award, American Anthropological Association, Archaeology Division for her influential research on ancient Pueblo societies and slavery in the prehistoric Southwest, inspiring scholars and which redefines our understanding of the past.
Landscapes of Predation: Violent Times in Small-Scale Societies
September 15 Stephen S. Post
Archaeologist and Former Deputy Director, New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies; Author, ‘10,000 Years of Hunting and Gathering in Santa Fe’, in History of an Ancient Royal City (D.G. Noble, ed.)
Archaeology and History on the Other Side of the River: Santa Fe’s Barrio Analco
September 22 Alan Osborne, B.A.
SPECIAL NOTE Held at Santa Fe Woman’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail
Southwest Public Historian; Study leader (Alumni): Yale University, UCLA, M.I.T., Princeton University Geo-Sciences, University of Minnesota; Smithsonian Travel Associates, Young President’s Organization, Tony Hillerman Native Voices & Indian Country Study Tours for Saga & Southwest Seminars. History lecturer: American Orient Express/ American Museum of Natural History, Western U.S. Attorneys General, Federal Administrative Law Judges, U.S. Senate-Canadian Parliament Bilateral Trade Commission, National Trust for Historic Preservation; New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities, and Southwest Seminars. Museum docent lectures: Museum of Indian Art and Culture, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Museum of the Southwest, and The Palace of the Governors.
After Coronado & Before Oñate: The ‘Rediscovery’ of New Mexico
September 29 Wayne Ranney, M.S.
Author 10 books, including Carving the Grand Canyon; Co-Author (w/ R.Blakey), Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau; River and Trail Guide, Grand Canyon National Park. Capitol Reef National Park, Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument, & International travel guide: Antarctica, Patagonia, Africa, Australia, the Amazon, North/South Poles. Recipient, 2021 John D. Haun Award, Rocky Mountain Section of American Association of Petroleum Geologists, honoring outstanding publications and science communication. Outdoor educator/geologist: Museum of Northern Arizona, Grand Canyon Field Institute; Smithsonian Associates, National Geographic Expeditions, Southwest Seminars.
A Virtual River Trip in Grand Canyon
$20 AT THE DOOR – OR – $95 FOR THE SERIES OF 5 LECTURES
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