SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
FEBRUARY VOICES 2025
MONDAY NIGHTS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE
LECTURES 50 MONDAYS A YEAR (ALMOST)
A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE
February 3 Dr. Kirt Kempter
Volcanologist, field geologist and Former Fulbright Fellow; Extensive field research: Costa Rica, Mexico, and New Mexico; Field geologic training for NASA astronaut training program candidates. Research interests in global geologic processes and leading field-oriented expeditions: Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Africa, & Antarctica. Kirt has led educational tours for Smithsonian Journeys and National Geographic Expeditions since 1993, and greatly enjoys sharing his passion and knowledge of geology.
A Geologic Tour of the Pacific Ring of Fire
February 10 Dr. Mark S. Aldenderfer
SPECIAL NOTE: Held at Santa Fe Woman’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail
Archaeologist and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of California-Merced; Editor, Co-Editor or Author of 10 books, including Montagne Foragers; Editor, Current Anthropology; Co-Editor, Science Advances; 100 articles & book chapters in anthropological journals. Mark studies comparative analysis of high altitude cultural and biological adaptations from an archaeological perspective while working on the 3 high elevation plateaus on Earth. Ongoing interdisciplinary team research (including specialists in ancient DNA, human genomics, protoeomics, textile/fiber & metallurgical analysts, historians, Tibetologists, & alpinists) aims to discover when the High Himalayas were first occupied by humans, a project in part supported by National Geographic & featured in the pages of its magazine; Documentary films: ‘Cave People of the Himalayas’, ‘Secrets of the Sky Tombs’, ‘Secrets of the Sky Caves’
Empires of Gold: Incas, Aztecs and Tibet
February 17 Dr. Lynne Sebastian
Archaeologist; Early excavation & research specializing in archaeology of the Ancestral Pueblo people. Later focus on preservation of the archaeological sites that contain an irreplaceable record of life in the past; Served as New Mexico State Archaeologist and later as the State Historic Preservation; Consultant worked nationwide on issues of historic preservation and management of historic and prehistoric places. Apointment by President Obama to federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. Past President, for Society for American Archaeology, and The Register of Professional Archaeologists. Author: The Chaco Anasazi: Sociopolitical Evolution in the Prehistoric Southwest; Living on the Land: Eleven Thousand Years of Human Adaptation in Southeastern New Mexico
Chacoan Great Houses
February 24 Dr. Timothy R. Pauketat, R.P.A.
Professor of Medieval Studies and Anthropology, University of Illinois; Illinois State Archaeologist; Director, Illinois State Archaeological Survey; Senior Scholar, School for Advanced Research; Author, Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America; An Archaeology of the Cosmos: Rethinking Agency & Religion in Ancient America; Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi River; Chiefdoms & Other Archaeological Delusions; Cahokia Mounds: Digging for the Past; Ancient Cahokia and the Mississippians; The Ascent of Chiefs: Cahokia & Mississippian Politics; Co-Author, (w/K.E. Sassaman), The Archaeology of Ancient North America.
Thunder Gods of Ancient Cahokia: How History Happened a Millennium Ago
$20 AT THE DOOR – OR – $75 FOR THE SERIES OF 4 LECTURES
Comments are closed.