SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
JULY VOICES 2024
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
July 1 Dr. Thomas Dalton Dillehay
Rebecca Webb Wilson University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Religion and Culture; Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Latin American Studies; and Research Professor, Vanderbilt University; Profesor Titular, Universidad Austral de Chile; Senior Fellow, School for Advanced Research; Author: 25 books and numerous refereed journal articles on South American archaeology and anthropology.
A New Prehistory of the Amazon and the Tropics Beyond
July 8 Dr. Donna Glowacki
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Affiliated Faculty, Environmental Change Initiative, University of Notre Dame; Author, Living and Leaving: A Social History of Regional Depopulation in 13th Century Mesa Verde; Co-Editor, (w/H. Neff), Ceramic Circulation and Production in the Greater Southwest; and (w/S. VanKeuren) Religious Transformation in the Late Pre-Hispanic Pueblo World.
Aztec: Center of the Mesa Verde World
July 15 Dr. Jimmy Santiago Baca and Dr. Melina Martinez
Jimmy: Poet and Memorist, Recipient, International Prize, Before Columbus Foundations’s American Book Award, Pushcart Prize, Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature; and Cornelius P. Turner Award; Published Poetry, memoirs, essays, stories, and a screenplay, Bound by Honor; Author: A Place to Stand; Immigrants in Our Own Land; Working in the Dark: Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio; and Healing Earthquakes; Social justice, the marginalized and disenfranchised, addiction, community, and the barrios of the American Southwest are issues of deep concern. Founder, Cedar Tree Press offering workshops, training, outreach for at-risk youth, prisoners and ex-prisoners.
Melina: Of Hispanic, Greek, Italian & Indigenous descent, she traces her lineage in NM to 18th c settlers; Raised with 3 older brothers, several furry companions, & many farm animals near Sangre de Cristo Mountains, streams. and arroyos. Experiencing poverty as well as tremendous fortune and opportunities to grow have inspired her to leave a legacy of truth, love, and beauty aimng to share with the world what it is to be New Mexican from the depths of her gathered experiences as expressed through her poetry. Author, Within my Shadows, Into my Light. embracing the good, the bad, the ugly…
July 22 Dr. Christina Leza (Yoeme/Chicana)
Linguistic Anthropologist and Scholar/Activist; Associate Professor of Anthropology,Colorado College; Author, Divided Peoples: Policy, Activism and Indigenous Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Border; ‘What is the US-Mexico Border to Indigenous Peoples Who Have Lived There?’ in Truthout; ‘Hip Hop is Resistance: Indigeneity on the U.S. Mexico Border’, in Music and Modernity among First Peoples of North America.
Imaginary Line: Indigenous Identities and Struggles on the U.S. Mexico Border
July 29 Dr. Stephen H. Lekson
Curator of Archaeology, Jubilado, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
Author, The Chaco Meridian: One Thousand Years of Political and Religious Power in the Ancient Southwest (2015); The Chaco Meridian: Center of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest (1999); The Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico; A Study of Southwestern Archaeology; and A History of the Ancient Southwest.
A History of the Ancient Southwest (Revisited!)
$20 AT THE DOOR – OR – $90 FOR THE SERIES OF 5 LECTURES
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