SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
ANCIENT SITES, ANCIENT STORIES
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
March 2 Dr. Bruce Bernstein
Senior Scholar, School for Advanced Research; Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Pueblo de San Ildefonso; formerly: Curator and Director, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico; Executive Director, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts; Curated over 100 exhibitions, including O’Powa O’Meng, currently on view at New Mexico Museum of Art. Four decades of museum work dedicated to collaboration and modeling new partnerships in curatorial principles/practices and research methodologies contributing to today’s inclusive collections and exhibition programs. Bernstein’s work has been instrumental in transforming museums into venues for meaningful civic discourse, revisiting and reassessing practices established by Hewett concerning Pueblo communities and Hewett “deserves reconsideration & rethinking.”
Edgar Hewett (1865-1946): Revisiting His Legacy or ‘Who Was This Guy?’
March 9 Dr. Carla Sinopoli
Anthropological Archaeologist and Professor, Department of Anthropology/Director, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University. of New Mexico; Founded in 1932, the Museum was created to care for archaeological collections generated by field schools in the Jemez and Chaco Canyon, to train university students and eduate the public. Carla is former Professor/Curator, and Director, Museum of Anthropology and Museum Studies Program, University of Michigan; Research focus on material culture, political economy, and social complexity from emergence to empires in South India. Museum work includes publications on history of university museums and anthropological collecting in Asia and exhibitions from Tibetan Buddhist art to Native American baskets. Her current work involves acknowledging and addressing the problematic legacy of anthropology museums.
Excavating History of Maxwell Museum: Controversial Figures, Collections, S. Fe Relation & Problematic Legacy
March 16 Dr. Thomas Dalton Dillehay Rebecca Webb Wilson University Distinguished Professor, Anthropology/Latin American Studies Emeritus, Vanderbilt University; Senior Scholar, School for Advanced Research; Archaeologist; Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Religion, and Culture; Senior Scholar, School for Advanced Research; Author, The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory; Monuments, Empires and Resistance: The Araucanian Polity & Ritual Narratives;; Co-Editor, (w/DJ Meltzer), The First Americans: Search and Research. Monte Verde, a major archaeological site that helped pioneer new interdisciplinary evidence and new questions through its revelations & spectacular perishable remains dating to at least 14,500 years ago, is placed within a hemispheric context & current thinking.
Monte Verde, Chile: Enigmatic Site Changed Our Thinking About First Americans
March 23 Don J. Usner, M.A.
A 13th generation New Mexican born in Embudo and raised in Los Alamos and Chimayó; Photographer, Author, Cultural Geographer, Environmental Writer; Author (w/W. deBuys) Valles Caldera: A New Vision for New Mexico’s National Preserve; Sabino’s Map: Life in Chimayó’s Old Plaza; Chasing Dichos Through Chimayó; and Benigna’s Chimayó: Cuentos from the Old Plaza. Photographs in The New Yorker, The New York Times, El Palacio, and New Mexico Magazine. Chapter Author/Photography, Plazas of New Mexico, Winner Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association; 2013 New Mexico Luminaria, New Mexico Community Foundation awarded for New Mexicans who “motivate, inspire, support the dreams of others, promote diversity and equity, and build community strength through their leadership and vision.” Suitcases of Cash & Handfuls of Punche: Preserving Chimayó History
March 30 Dr. Sharon Kaye Hull Archaeologist/Anthropologist, National Park Ranger, Chaco Culture National Historic Park; former Researcher, University of Manitoba; Postdoc, Department of Geological Sciences, Winipeg, Canada; Expertise: prehistory, sample preparation, spectroscopy, cultural studies, archaeology, material characterization; Author, ‘Turquoise Trade of the Ancestral Puebloan Chaco and Beyond’; Chasing Beauty: Evidence for Southwest U.S. Turquoise in Mexico; ‘Cracking the code of pre-Columbian turquoise trade networks and procurement strategies’; Evidence of impact material and the extinction of the mega-fauna 12,900 years ago; ‘A new approach to determining the geological provenance of turquoise artifacts using hydrogen and copper stable isotopes’; ‘Determination of Copper Isotope Ratios in Turquoise from the Southwestern U.S.’. Dissertation research compared artifacts at Chaco Canyon, Aztec and Salmon Ruins Archaeological Site
Chacoan World: Turquoise Trade & Procurement
$20 AT THE DOOR – OR – $95 FOR THE SERIES OF 5 LECTURES
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