SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
NOVEMBER 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
November 4 Shanna Diederichs, M.A. RPA, AIC
Architectural Conservator and Archaeologist, Woods Canyon Archaeological Consultants; former Supervisory Archaeologist/Field Director, Basketmaker Communities Project, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center; A 4thgeneration Coloradan raised & shaped by the landscapes/history of the West. Research on Ancestral Pueblo architecture while working in Mesa Verde, Aztec Ruins, Chaco Canyon, Chimney Rock, Wupatki, & Bears Ears. Having also worked in Alaska & Southern Egypt, Shanna helps people appreciate past societies, and imagine their lived history & built environments.
Architecture & History of Chaco Canyon Great Houses: Captured with New Methods
November 11 Dr. Pat Gilman
Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma; Publications on social variations within the Mimbres region, Mogollon Great Kivas, and Mimbres iconography and religion; Co-Editor (w/C.W. Schwartz & S. Plog) Birds of the Sun: Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest; (w/ B.Roth & R. Anyon) New Perspectives on Mimbres Archaeology; Co-Author (w/S. LeBlanc) Mimbres Life and Society: The Mattocks Site of Southwestern New Mexico; Pat has a life-long interest in research and field work in the larger Mimbres region, architecture and transition that ancient people made from living in pithouses to inhabiting pueblos.
Scarlet Macaw Husbandry in the Southwestern U.S. & Northwestern Mexico
November 18 Dr. Paul Minnis
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma; Editor, Author or Co-Author of a dozen books along with numerous journal articles and chapters. After four decades of recording and/or excavating sites in the Southwest U.S. and Northwest Mexico with his colleague, Michael Whalen, they have contributed to greater knowledge of Paquimé and its role as an ancient regional population center and how it interacted with both neighboring and distant communities/ cultures. He continues this work, applying these archaeological findings to addressing the social and cultural problems of our 21st Century to learn how ancient farming practice can enhance our modern world’s food supply. Thank you, Dr, Minnis! (Grant County Archeological Society bio.)
Reframing Paquimé: My Final Thoughts After Forty Years
November 25 Dr. Kerry Frances Thompson (Diné)
Associate Professor of Anthropology and current Department Chair, Northern Arizona University; Chapter Author (w/R.H. Towner), ‘Navajo Archaeology’ Oxford Handbook of Southwestern Archaeology; (w/O. V. Marek-Martinez), ‘Engaging Archaeology as Social Justice for Navajo Communities’ in From the Trowel to the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism’, (C.P. Barton, ed.); Political/social ideals that shape her career include: social justice, inclusion & equity for Indigenous and other marginalized people. Her research and teaching focus on facets of Indigenous perspectives in archaeology and anthropology.
To Be Diné Southwestern Archaeology, Oral Tradition & the Story of the Navajo
$20 AT THE DOOR – OR – $75 FOR THE SERIES OF 4 LECTURES
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