SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
SEPTEMBER VOICES 2025

MONDAY NIGHTS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE
LECTURES – 50 MONDAYS A YEAR

A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE

September 1 Dr.  Stephen H. Lekson
Curator of Archaeology, Jubilado, Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado; A History of the Ancient Southwest; Chaco Meridian: Centers of Power in the Ancient Southwest; Archaeology of the Mimbres Region, Southwestern New Mexico, USA; Editor, Archaeology of Chaco Canyon; and former Editor, Kiva Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History. Known as the ‘big picture guy’, he has tied together the Ancient Southwest, Northern Mexico, and Mesoamerica in fine fashion His provocative and expansive views on the relationship of postclassic Mexican cultures and centers of influence on American Southwest cultural developments gives pause for thought and consideration by those who wonder what were the connections between these places?
How I Learned to Think (Big…about the Southwest)

September 8 Dr. Catherine M. Cameron
Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado; Author, Captives: How Stolen Peoples Changed the World; Chaco and After in the Northern San Juan: Excavations at the Bluff Great House; ‘Injection: An Archaeological Approach to Slavery;’, in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History (eds: D.A. Pargas/J. Schiel); Co-Ed. (w/B.Bowser) Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America; Landscapes of Movement and Predation: Perspectives from Archaeology, History, and Anthropology.
Landscapes of Predation: Violent Times in Small-Scale Societies

September 15 Dr. David E. Stuart
Professor Emeritus, of Anthropology, and Associate Provost Emeritus, University of New Mexico; 2011 Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; Author, Ancient Southwest: Chaco Canyon, Bandelier & Mesa Verde; The Magic of Bandelier; Anasazi America; Co-Author (w/ J.M. Campbell, T.C. Windes, K.Kallestad) Chacoan Great House Society. Field work: Alaska, Ecuador, & American Southwest.
Ancient Woman Gardeners: Prelude to Chaco Canyon

September 22 Alan Osborne, B.A.
SPECIAL NOTE: Held at Santa Fe Woman’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail
Southwest public historian and co-founder of Southwest Seminars, an award-winning cultural education nonprofit that has offered weekly public lectures for the past 28 years; former State Director of Elderhostel for 12 years and co-founder of New Mexico Elderhostel and founder of College of Santa Fe’s Elderhostel program. He has toured with educational study groups sponsored by: Yale University Alumni Association, Princeton Geo Sciences Alunni, UCLA Alumni Association. The American Orient Express/American Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Travel Associates, Clipper, Special Expeditions, and Saga Road Scholar/Tony Hillerman Program and Southwest Seminars. He has presented educational guest lectures for organizations such as the Western United States Attorneys General, Federal Administrative Law Judges, U.S. Senate-Canadian Parliament Bilateral Trade Commission, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.  He has provided museum docent and educational training lectures for Museum of Indian Art and Culture, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian and The Palace of the Governors.
After Coronado & Before Oñate: The ‘Rediscovery’ of New Mexico

September 29 Wayne Ranney, M.S.
Author 10 books, including Carving the Grand Canyon; Co-Author (w/ R.Blakey), Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau; River and Trail Guide, Grand Canyon National Park. Capitol Reef National Park, Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument, & International travel guide: Antarctica, Patagonia, Africa, Australia, the Amazon, North and South Poles; Recipient, 2021 John D. Haun Award, Rocky Mountain Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, honoring outstanding publications and science communication. Outdoor educator/geologist: Museum of Northern Arizona, Grand Canyon Field Institute; Smithsonian Associates, National Geographic Expeditions and Southwest Seminars.
A Virtual River Trip in Grand Canyon

$20 AT THE DOOR – OR – $95 FOR THE SERIES OF 5 LECTURES

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CANYON SPIRITS: POWER & BEAUTY IN THE ANCESTRAL PUEBLOAN WORLD