SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
VOICES FROM THE PAST
JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2026
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
January 5 Dr. Severin Fowles with Dr. John D. Galuska
Sev: Archaeologist; Professor, American Studies and Anthropology; Chair, Department of Anthropology, Barnard College/Columbia University; Author, An Archaeology of Doings: Secularism and the Study of Pueblo Religion. Directed collaborative fieldwork projects: from excavations at a 13th century. Ancestral Pueblo village, rock image surveys in Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, excavations at a Spanish Colonial village and at a 1960’s hippie commune. He prioritizes collaborations with descendant communities such as Picuris Pueblo where he co-directs a late precolonial agricultural landscape survey and the Comanche Nation’s 18th century rock imagery traditions. John: Folklorist, ethnomusicologist, cultural anthropologist, archivist, and Ojo Sarco farmer; Former adjunct faculty member at Indiana University (Bloomington) & Director, Foster International Living-Learning Center. Current leadership of collaborative team achieving long-held dream to reopen Picuris Pueblo Interpretive Center and Museum featuring: Reemergence exhibit, archaeology landscape project, and Picuris master micaceous potters.
Picuris Pueblo: Looking Back Looking Forward
January 12 Dr. Sean G. Dolan
Archaeologist, American Southwest/Mexican Northwest; Cultural Resources Manager, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL); Author: ‘Birds of the Earth and the Dead: An Archaeological Review of Turkeys from the United States Southwest & Mexican Northwest’ (Published online), Kiva, Journal of Southwestern Anthropology & History; Author: ‘Insularity as Cultural Strategy: Mimbres Social Organization in Southwest New Mexico, CE 1000-1130’, American Antiquity; Co-Author:‘Turkey Management in the Mimbres Valley of Southwestern New Mexico using Ancient Mitochondrial DNA and Stable Isotopes’ (w/A.Oxga, K.Laumbach, J.Krigbaum, A.Manin, C.Schwartz, A.Stone, K.Knudson) and ‘Pachuca Obsidian Blades from the United States Southwest: Implications for Mesoamerican Connections & Coronado’s Mexican Indian Allies’ (w/M.S. Shackley), both American Antiquity.
Wild, Domestic, or Something Else? Archaeological Turkeys, Dogs, Coyotes in Eastern Mimbres, NM
Dr. Thomas E. Chavez New Mexico History in Six Acts
Historian, Research Associate, Latin American & Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico; Former Director, The Palace of the Governors, Musuem of New Mexico and Executive Director, National Hispanic Cultural Center; Author: Revolutionary Diplomacy: Spanish Connections and the Birth of the United States; Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift: Timeless Caravan, the Story of a Spanish-American Family; An Illustrated History of New Mexico; Quest for Quivira: Spanish Explorers on the Great Plains: 1540-1821; New Mexico Past and Future; A Soliloquy of Some Disconnected Tales; Wake For a Fat Vicar; Chasing History: Quixotic Quests for Artifacts, Art, and Heritage; A Moment in Time: The Odyssey of New Mexico’s Segesser Hides. Co-Author (w/Orlando Romero), Nambe Year One
January 19 Ancient Societies: Migration, Chaco Canyon, & Mesoamerica
January 26 Spanish Explorers & Settlement: Adobe Cities, Columbian Dream, A Missionary Field
February 2 Colony of Spain: An Island in the Wilderness, Native Resistance and Accommodation, Nefarious Events & Survival
February 9 Mexican Interlude: The Day of the Wedding, When Paco Met Horatio Alger, Santa Fe & Old Spanish Trails, Mountain Men, An Invasion from Texas
February 16 U.S. Territory: The Virgin & the Dynamo, A Time of Adjustment, Cowboys & Indians, Civil War; Quest for Statehood
February 23 Statehood: War, Art & Literature, Science & the Bomb, Whither Now?
$20 AT THE DOOR
IMAGE: 2013 M & M PHOTOGRAPHY
TRAVELS WITH A SCHOLAR…& MORE TO COME
A GRAND EXPEDITION: RAFTING THE COLORADO RIVER WITH WAYNE RANNEY & DR. JOHN WARE
MAY 8-16. 2026
JULY 31-AUGUST 8, 2026
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