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Southwest Seminars

Call or email Southwest Seminars, a 501(c)(3) Educational Non-Profit organization, to find out more and register for the series. Seating is limited so reserve your space today.
Registration cost: $20 at the door, or $75 to subscribe to the series of four lectures.

219 Ojo de la Vaca, Santa Fe
New Mexico 87108
(505) 466-2775
[email protected]
Website: https://southwestseminars.org/

AUGUST 5

Revolts and Revolutions in New Mexico

Robert D. Martinez, M.A.

New Mexico State Historian, Specialist in Spanish Colonial church, cultural, and social practices; former Deputy State Historian & Research Historian, Sephardic Legacy Project (Crypto-Judaism); Folk musician: Smithsonian Folk Life Festival, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and National Education Association Heritage Fellowship Awards Ceremony.

AUGUST 12

Great Houses for Whom? A New Interpretation of Great Houses as Temple Architecture

August 12 Dr. Robert S. Weiner

Archaeologist, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth Society of Fellows, Department of Religion, Dartmouth College; Researching Ancestral Four Corners societies of indigenous Southwest, emphasis on roads, religion, ritual gambling, Diné oral tradition; Fellowships: National Science Foundation, School for Advanced Research, & American Philosophical Society.

AUGUST 19

Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

Dr. Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone)

Historian and Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University. Former professor, University of Wisconsin; Author, The Rediscovery of American: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History; (Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction); Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the early American West (Winner, Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from Organization of American Historians for the most significant first book in American History); Book of the Decade Award, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (for one of the ten most influential books in the first decade of the 21st Century).

AUGUST 26

The Wide Wide Sea

Hampton Sides

American Historian, Author and Journalist in Residence, Colorado College; former Miller Distinguished Scholar, Santa Fe Institute; Author, The Exotic: Intrigue and Cultural Ruin in the Age of Imperialism; Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Time Magazine named One of the Ten Best Books of 2006); In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette; Ghost Soldiers, Hellhound On His Trail and The Wide Wide Sea; Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook; Nominee, National Magazine Awards; Advisory Board member, Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.
Monday Nights at 6 pm | Hotel Santa Fe

AUGUST 2024 Lectures

Hotel Santa Fe

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