SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
OCTOBER 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

October 6 Alan Osborne, B.A.
Southwest public historian; Co-founder, Southwest Seminars, educational non-profit offering weekly public lectures; Educational alumni study groups toured: Yale University, Princeton University Geo-Sciences, UCLA, University of Minnesota Engineering, & Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.); Study Leader/history lecturer: The American Orient Express/American Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Travel Associates, University of Minnesota Elder-Learning Institute, RENESAN Institute for Lifelong Learning, New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities, Clipper Travels & Tours, Special Expeditions, and Saga Road Scholar/Native Voices in Tony Hillerman Literature Indian Country Program, and Southwest Seminars Travels with a Scholar. Guided history/culture tours: Western United States Attorneys General, Federal Administrative Law Judges, U.S. Senate-Canadian Parliament Bilateral Trade Commission, National Trust for Historic Preservation. Docent training lectures: Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Museum of the Southwest, and The Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum.
After Coronado & Before Oñate: The ‘Rediscovery’ of New Mexico

October 13 Ron Barber, B.S.
Founder, The Stone Calendar Project; Rock Art Researcher; Mechanical Engineer (ret.), Los Alamos National Laboratory/Lawrence Livermore Laboratory; Explorer by nature, mechanical engineer by profession, raised in the oil fields of South America, hauled by parents through deserts, mountains and jungles in search of new adventure, thus sparking his passion to study the influence of light and dark on petroglyphs in sun-centric spiral calendars. Eight years spent working with Hopi tribe to identify their ancestral calendars during which crested serpent images on rock caught his interest along the way. With excellent Hopi guides they found a serpent , but not Hopi! Unlike the winged serpents of the Mississippi area, crested serpents covered a much broader area than the Southwest reaching far down into Mexico.
Chasing the Plumed Serpent of the Southwest

October 20 Dr. Brian Millsap
Senior Research Scientist, Department of Fish, Wildlife & Conservation Ecology, New Mexico State University; Former Chief of Division, Migratory Bird Management, Deputy Director, Southwest Region, and National Raptor Coordinator, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Former Chief, Bureau of Wildlife Diversity Conservation, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Co-teaching, (w/F. Abadi) NMSU graduate-level class: Science-based Decision Making in Wildlife Management, A Quantitative Approach. Research interests: population ecology & conservation of birds of prey; population modeling of American Kestrels, Peregrine Falcons, Burrowing Owls, Golden Eagles Gray Hawks, and Cooper’s Hawks. Former President, Vice-President: North American Falconer’s Association; Former President, President Elect, Eastern Director, Raptor Research Foundation; Hamerstrom Lifetime Achievement Award for significant contributions to our understanding of raptor ecology and natural history.
Life History of Cooper’s Hawk: New Mexico’s Most Widespread Raptor

October 27 Dr. E. Chuck Adams
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Arizona; Curator Emeritus, Archaeology, and Director, Homol’ovi Research Program, Arizona State Museum; Developed U. of Az. Pueblo Archaeology course, 1987 taught to 2016. Helped develop & teach core course in Southwest Land, Culture & Society graduate minor program. Led School of Anthropology Field School 2011-2016. Author, The Origin and Development of the Pueblo Katsina Cult; Homol’ovi: An Ancient Hopi Settlement Cluster; Editor, Chevelon: Pueblo at Blue Running Water; Homol’ovi: A Pueblo Hamlet in the Middle Little Colorado Valley, Northeastern Arizona; Co-Editor: The Protohistoric Pueblo World: A.D. 1275 to 1600; Chapter Author, ‘New Perspectives on an Ancient Religion: Katsina Ritual and the Archaeological Record’, in Religion in the Pre-Hispanic Southwest, (eds. C.&T. Van Pool; ‘Hopi History Prior to 1600’, in The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the American Southwest, (eds. B.J. Mills/S. Fowles).
Coming & Going: 13,000 Years of Migration on the Southern Colorado Plateau

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