SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
MOTHER EARTH FATHER SKY
PERSPECTIVES ON THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE AMERICAN WEST: 2017

MONDAY NIGHTS AT 6PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE
TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER

A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE
LECTURES – 50 MONDAYS A YEAR

October 23 Benjamin A. Bellorado, M.A.
Archaeologist, School of Anthropology and Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; Guest Editor, ‘Recent Research in the Eastern Mesa Verde Region’, in Special Issue of Kiva; Author: ‘Landscape Use, Corn Ecology, and Identity in the Upper San Juan’, In Social Identity in the Northern San Juan (Paul F. Reed, ed.)
Southern Bears Ears Cliff Dwellings, Building Murals, and Weaving Technologies

October 30 Dr. Frances Levine,
Archaeologist , Historian; President, Missouri Historical Society; Co-Author (w/M. Weigle) Telling New Mexico: A New Mexico History; Author, Dona Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition: A 17^th Century New Mexican Drama; Our Prayers Are in this Place: Pecos Pueblo Identity Over the Centuries; Former Director, New Mexico History Museum;
Trading Places: Seeing the Santa Fe Trail from the Other Side

November 13 Dr. Vernon Scarborough, Jon-Paul McCool, M.A., & Samantha G. Fladd, M.A.
Vern: Distinguished University Research Professor and Charles Phelps Taft Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Cincinnati; Author, The Flow of Power: Ancient Water Systems and Landscapes; Jon-Paul: Geographer, Satellite Remote Sensing Research; Samantha: Archaeologist, Chaco Canyon Water Management and Soil Salinity Research
Chaco Canyon Water

November 20 Dr. Chris Fisher
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Colorado State University; Recipient, 2007 Gordon R. Willey Prize, American Anthropological Association; Co-Editor, The Archaeology of Environmental Change: Socionatural Legacies of Degradation and Resilience; and Seeking a Richer Harvest: The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation and Change; Co-Author, Identifying Settlement Patterns in the Mosquitia Region of Honduras, Archaeologist,
Lost City of the Monkey God

 November 27 Dr. Dan Flores
Environmental Historian, A.B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of Western History, Recipient, 2017 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize,Author: The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains; Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in the Near Southwest; American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains; Coyote America: A Natural & Supernatural History
American Serengeti and Coyote America

 December 4 Don J. UsnerCultural Geographer, Photographer and Co-Author (w/Elmo Baca): New Mexico Route 66 on Tour: Legendary Architecture from Glen Rio to Gallup; (w/ Wm. DeBuys) Valles Caldera: A Vision for New Mexico’s National Preserve; Author: Orale! Lowrider: Custom Made in New Mexico; Chasing Dichos Through Chimayo; Sabino’s Map: Life in Chimayo’s Old Plaza; Benigna’s Chimayo: Cuentos from the Old Plaza; Board Member, Chimayo Historic Museum
Lowriders I Have Loved

December 11 Dr. Kirt Kempter
Volcanologist and Field Geologist; Study Leader, Smithsonian Journeys to Antarctica and Iceland; Former Fulbright Scholar; Field research in Costa Rica, Mexico and New Mexico;Field Geologic Training for NASA Astronaut Candidate Program in New Mexico
Volcanic Geology of the Jemez Mountain Range

December 18 Dr. Sara Dant
Environmental Historian, Professor of History and Recipient, 2015/2017 Sustainability Research Faculty Award, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah; Co-Author (w/H. Roffman): Encyclopedia of American National Parks; Author, ‘Selling and Saving Utah: 1945 to Present’, in Utah History; Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West;
Losing Eden: Avoiding the Great Filter

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