Past Events

The listing below shows events at SAR that have already taken place.

May 2013
	Colloquium Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Anne Ray Intern Presentations Lisa Barrera and Melvin Sarracino, Anne Ray Interns, SAR “Connecting Collections to the Community: Best Practices and Recommendations for the California State Indian Museum’s Basketry Collection” by Lisa Barrera and “The Cultural Relevance of K’unee to K’awaika’a-mesch” by Melvin Sarracino
	Sparks Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free Instruments of Power: Musical Performance in Rituals of the Ancestral Puebloans of the American Southwest Emily Brown Using a multidisciplinary approach that includes musicology, archaeology, iconography, history, and ethnography to examine musical instruments from the Southwest, much has been learned about music, musicians, and the social and physical contexts of music prior to European contact.
	Field Trip Friday, May 10, 2013, 8:30 am–12:00 pm The Intriguing Story of the Arroyo Hondo Pueblo Join Douglas Schwartz, president emeritus of the School for Advanced Research, on a field trip to the fourteenth-century pueblo of Arroyo Hondo.
	Speaker Series Thursday, May 9, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free The Museums’ Dilemma: Culturally Appropriate Conservation Kelly McHugh, Objects Conservator, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution Many indigenous communities have differing ideas about the concepts of preservation and conservation, which often contradict typical museum practices. How does one balance museological best practices with cultural worldviews?
	Colloquium Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free 21st Century Hunting and Gathering Advanced Seminar Co-chairs Brian F. Codding, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, and Karen L. Kramer, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah In this talk, Codding and Kramer provide a brief review of hunter-gatherer studies, discuss results emerging from contemporary research and provide a preliminary framework aimed at understanding contemporary life in hunter-gatherer societies.
	Field Trip Friday, May 3–Monday, May 6, 2013 Hubbell Art Auction and Canyon de Chelly In addition to the day-long auction event at the Hubbell Trading Post, we will accompany National Park Service archaeologist Keith Lyons on a full-day jeep tour of Canyon del Muerto in Canyon de Chelly.
	Colloquium Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Surface Dialogues Margaret Pearce, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Kansas, and Anne Ray Fellow, SAR It is simpler to connect cultures with cartography when the stories can be told in vector: using points, lines, and words.
April 2013
	Speaker Series Thursday, April 25, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Consultations: Providing Interpretation and Guidance for Collections Jim Enote, Director, A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center Leigh Kuwanwisiwma, Director, Hopi Cultural Preservation Office Gary Roybal, Native American Liaison, Bandelier National Monument Cynthia Chavez Lamar (Moderator), IARC Director, School for Advanced Research Native community representatives often work with museums to improve collections records and bring information back to the tribe. How do tribal representatives determine what information can be shared with the public and at what level? Where is the line between what should be kept internal versus made public—even in limited amounts—for the sake of preservation?
	Colloquium Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Literary Anthropology Advanced Seminar Co-Chairs Anand Pandian, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, and Stuart McLean, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota Pandian and McLean will propose a closer and more sustained engagement with anthropology's literary dimensions as a means of highlighting the discipline's unique position among the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and creative arts, and as an important way of engaging wider audiences....
	Field Trip Friday, April 19–Sunday, April 21, 2013 Archaeology of the Ute Mountain Tribal Park Join us for a trip into the southern borderlands of Mesa Verde as we travel with Native American guides into the Ute Mountain Tribal Park.
	Lecture Thursday, April 18, 2013, 6:30–7:30 pm, Free for SAR members • $10 for nonmembers Case of the Recurring Wodaabe Corinne Kratz The Wodaabe people were little known outside their home region of the Sahel until the 1950s. Filmmakers ranging from Robert Gardner, Werner Herzog, and National Geographic turned their lenses on Wodaabe life, highlighting their elaborate attire and rich ceremonies, particularly the visually spectacular geerewol ceremony.
	Colloquium Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Resistant Foragers: Foraging and Maize Cultivation in the Northern Rio Grande Maxine McBrinn, Curator of Archaeology, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture In much of the Southwest, people are thought to have been significantly invested in farming by CE 200 and earlier. However, there are areas within the region, such as the Jornada Mogollon and the Northern Rio Grande, where populations continued higher levels of mobility until much later....
	Artist Talk Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 6:30–7:30 pm, Free for SAR members, $10 for non-members Writers Reading/Reading Writers: Madeline Miller Excavating Achilles: Following Homer’s Hero Through the Ages Author Madeline Miller reads from her 2012 Orange Prize-winning novel, The Song of Achilles, and explores the stories that are at the heart of its creation.
	Speaker Series Thursday, April 11, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Tribal Archives: Ethics and the Right to Access Peter Chestnut, Attorney, Chestnut Law Offices, P.A., Albuquerque Attorney Peter Chestnut talks about various issues and concerns that have impacted tribal archives and how these institutions and communities have solved or negotiated through these issues.
	Colloquium Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Fukushima’s Victories and Victims: The Fateful Alliance of Japanese Soccer and Nuclear Power Elise Edwards, Associate Professor, Department of History and Anthropology, Butler University, and Luce Fellow, SAR This talk will explore the entwined relationships and mutually beneficial growth plans pursued by TEPCO and the Japan Football Association since the 1990s, against the backdrop of a longer twentieth-century history of corporate-sport relations in Japan, and in light of the popular media’s story of the women’s soccer team’s victory and its ability to “heal a nation.”
	Sparks Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free The Plazas of New Mexico Chris Wilson & Miguel Gandert Cultural historian Chris Wilson and renowned photographer Miguel Gandert will present their newest book Center Place: The Plazas of New Mexico.
	Field Trip Friday, April 5, 2013, 8:00 am–4:00 pm Pecos Pueblo at the Beginning Pecos Pueblo is one of the most historically significant sites in New Mexico. As the largest and easternmost of the Pueblo villages, by 1540 it was home to at least 2,000 inhabitants.
March 2013
	Symposium Saturday, March 30, 2013, 12:30–5:00 pm The Galisteo Basin: Archaeology and History of a New Mexico Landscape In Memory of Dr. Linda Cordell The Museum of New Mexico’s Friends of Archaeology and the School for Advanced Research will co-sponsor a public symposium on the archaeology and history of the Galisteo Basin. The half-day event will feature talks by eight distinguished scholars who have researched this culturally rich valley.
	Speaker Series Thursday, March 28, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Is It Native American Art?: Authenticity and Self-determination Lara Evans, Art Historian, Art History Faculty, Institute of American Indian Arts In the summer of 2012, the Southwest Association for Indian Arts hosted a lecture series on the topics of quality and authenticity. Speaker Series consultant Lara Evans presents the outcomes of these discussions and addresses the questions of who gets to decide what is “authentic,” and how Native self-determination plays into these issues.
	Colloquium Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free The Runt, Or the Making and Unmaking of the American Meat Pig Alex Blanchette, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies, Tufts University (starting in 2013), and Weatherhead Fellow, SAR Through an analysis of labor and human-animal relations in the farrowing node of a factory farm—the segment where the pigs are born—this presentation develops a way to think about the constellations of politics and value embedded in the standardized meat pig as a (unique) type of industrial being.
	Field Trip Saturday, March 23, 2013, 8:00 am–5:00 pm The Artistry of Acoma Pueblo SAR has received a special invitation to visit Acoma Pueblo and learn about its artistic history through the eyes of Acoma potter Franklin Peters and Haak’u Museum curator Melvin Sarracino.
	Lecture Thursday, March 21, 2013, 6:30–7:30 pm, Free for SAR members • $10 for nonmembers (No advanced reservations. Ticket sales begin at 5:30 pm and are available only at the door.) Native American Fashion from the 1940s to the Present, and into the Future Jessica Metcalfe Since the 1940s, Native American fashion designers have used clothing as a way to continue age-old clothing practices, deconstruct stereotypes, and subvert the mainstream fashion industry. The artists seek to reclaim the label “Native American” in the fashion world and create new opportunities for Native artists.
	Field Trip Thursday, March 21–Saturday, March 30, 2013 Ancient Borderlands of Western Turkey Join SAR on an exclusive adventure into some of the most fascinating and significant regions of the ancient world—Ionia, Lydia, and Caria—now within the modern nation of Turkey. Guided by historian Dr. John Lee, we will explore the history, archaeology, art, and culture of this beautiful area, all while traveling in five-star comfort.
	Speaker Series Thursday, March 14, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Archaeology in the Southwest: To Collect or Not? T.J. Ferguson, Archaeologist and Professor, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona Don Whyte, Chief Ranger, Chaco Culture National Historical Park Elysia Poon (Moderator), IARC program coordinator, School for Advanced Research Did you know it is illegal to collect pottery sherds and stone tools from public lands? Noted Southwest archaeologist T.J. Ferguson and Chaco Culture National Historical Park Chief Ranger Don Whyte discuss how to navigate the legalities surrounding archaeology in the Southwest and whether or not there is a way to be a responsible collector.
	Colloquium Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Imprinted Ideas and Indigenous Futurisms: Thinking Beyond Hollywood’s Indians and Toward Visual Sovereignty via Imaginative Acts of Reclamation Danika Medak-Saltzman, Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Lamon Fellow, SAR This presentation will further explain how what might seem like an unexpected turn in contemporary Native cultural production and filmmaking is actually the reclamation and articulation of “Indigenous Futurisms.”
	Sparks Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free Farther Along, Recalling Memories: A History of Phillips Chapel and the Las Cruces African American Community Clarence Fielder Erected in 1911, the Phillips Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church has played an important role in the history of the African American population in Las Cruces, NM.
	Colloquium Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Whites in Black Towns: Redesigning Race Relations in the Twenty-first Century Karla Slocum, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and NEH Fellow, SAR This presentation will address debates about the small yet growing settlement of Whites in “All Black Towns,” as well as a variety of Black Town business ventures linking Whites and Blacks in collaboration, co-existence, or sometimes contestation.
February 2013
	Colloquium Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free A Misplaced Massacre: Sand Creek in History and Memory Ari Kelman, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Davis Ari Kelman, a historian at UC Davis, will discuss the meaning and impact of the longstanding fight to shape and control memories of Sand Creek.
	Lecture Thursday, February 21, 2013, 6:30–7:30 pm, Free for SAR members • $10 for nonmembers Cycles of Evangelism in the Southwest Borderlands James F. Brooks Four “big ideas” swept across the Southwest borderlands of North America in the thousand years that span the emergence of social complexity in the Ancestral Puebloan world and the consolidation of the Spanish colony of New Mexico.
	Colloquium Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Empires of Love: Race, Sexuality, and the European-Asian Encounter Carmen Nocentelli, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of New Mexico Drawing on a range of literary and archival sources, Nocentelli argues that Europe's expansion into South and Southeast Asia contributed to the development of Western racial discourse while also shaping European ideals of marriage, erotic reciprocity, and monogamous affection.
	Artist Talk Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 5:30–7:00 pm, Free Casandra Lopez in Conversation with Evelina Zuni Lucero 2013 Indigenous Writer-in-Residence SAR Writer-in-Residence Casandra Lopez is of Cahuilla, Luiseno, Tongva, and Chicana descent. Hosted by noted writer Evelina Zuni Lucero (Isleta/San Juan Pueblo), this event will include a conversation between Lucero and Lopez followed by a reading of Lopez’s work.
	Colloquium Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Between Art and Artifact: Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in Oaxaca, Mexico Ronda Lynn Brulotte, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico Author and UNM anthropologist Ronda Brulotte will discuss her book Between Art and Artifact: Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in Oaxaca, Mexico (University of Texas Press 2012), which provides an ethnographic examination of the politics of heritage tourism and artisan production in southern Mexico.
	Sparks Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free Acequias, Trails, Land Grants, and Early Twentieth-Century Urban Expansion: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Southeast Santa Fe Stephen Post Stephen Post has spent more than twenty years researching the archaeological history of the Northern Rio Grande valley with emphasis on the Santa Fe area.
January 2013
	Colloquium Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Children’s Schooling and the Pathways of Mothering Fibian Kavulani Lukalo, Senior Lecturer, Department of Communication and Media Studies, School of Human Resource Development, Moi University, and Campbell Resident Scholar, SAR In this presentation, Lukalo discusses findings of a life history study on factors that affected the education of mothers living in rural Kenya.
	Lecture Thursday, January 24, 2013, 6:30–7:30 pm, Free for SAR members • $10 for nonmembers From the Myth of Kings to the Math of Kings: Art, Science, and the Ancient Maya William Saturno Dr. William Saturno explores the most recent finds and paints a picture of Maya society driven by royal figures who exploited art and science to establish and maintain their place as symbol and center of Maya urban life.
	Colloquium Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Finding the Calories: Family Economy, Crop Yields, and Population Increase from 250 CE to 800 CE in the Prehistoric Four Corners District David Stuart, Professor and Associate Provost Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico and Jenny Lund, Undergraduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico Stuart and Lund have completed a series of calculations to quantify the calories needed, acres of maize required, and costs of population increase for a family of eleven pit-house dwellers at about 250 CE.
December 2012
	Colloquium Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Tour Narratives of Race, Place, and History: Expanding the Borders of America’s Black Towns Karla Slocum, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and NEH Fellow, SAR This presentation examines twenty-first century black town bus tour narratives, exploring how tour narrators present black towns against the grain.
	Sparks Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free Working the Land: New Mexico Ranch and Farm Women Tell their Stories Sandra Schackel From driving tractors to laying irrigation pipe to running a guest ranch, agricultural women in New Mexico are active, resourceful, and determined ranchers and farmers. Despite the continuing decline of family farms into the twenty-first century, life working the land remains of paramount importance to these women.
	Colloquium Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Guided by Place Names: Field Methods for the Cartographic Expression of Indigenous Geographies Margaret Wickens Pearce, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Kansas, and Anne Ray Fellow, SAR This presentation introduces work to expand cartographic language for the expression of Indigenous geographies, from an overview of previous projects to present challenges to foster a cross-cultural cartographic dialogue on climate change experience and adaptation strategies in northern Tanzania.
	Colloquium Tuesday, December 4, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free How to Read a Map: Cartographic Language for Curious Creatives Margaret Wickens Pearce, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Kansas, and Anne Ray Fellow, SAR This workshop introduces the fundamentals of cartographic language for the curious mind. Like music, architecture, and dance, cartography is a kind of language with its own vocabulary, grammar, and genres. We’ll learn some basic building blocks and then use that knowledge to dismantle our preconceptions of what maps do, and to re-read some maps with new eyes.
November 2012
	Artist Talk Thursday, November 29, 2012, 5:30–7:00 pm, Free Jonathan Loretto: Artist Talk, Reception, and Open Studio 2012 Rollin and Mary Ella King Fellow Jonathan Loretto is from Walatowa (Jemez) and Cochiti and has been creating traditional pottery for the past thirty years. This last year, he switched from creating vessels to developing figurative forms. Most recently, he has been creating what he calls “storytelling bobbleheads,” which combine the figurative tradition of Cochiti Pueblo with the contemporary pop phenomenon of the bobblehead.
	Colloquium Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free The Life and Paradoxical Leadership of Archaeologist William S. Webb Douglas W. Schwartz, President Emeritus and Senior Scholar, SAR To initiate the Depression-motivated Tennessee Valley Authority archaeology program, one of the world’s largest archaeological projects ever undertaken, a strong leader of this vast enterprise was required.
	Sparks Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free The Cienega and the Hospital: How a Marsh Shaped Downtown Santa Fe Cordelia Snow Hundreds and hundreds of years ago, the Santa Fe River meandered across a wide flood plain as the river flowed west and south before it joined the Rio Grande above modern Cochiti Pueblo. At some point, one of several oxbows in the river’s channel was pinched off and formed a cienega, or marsh, at the base of the foothills on the north side of the river.
	Colloquium Wednesday, November 7, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Advances and Questions on the Evolution of Childhood Advanced Seminar co-chairs Courtney L. Meehan, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University and Alyssa N. Crittenden, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California–San Diego Research into the evolution of childhood and the diversity of children’s experiences around the world has attracted attention in recent years, yet children remain peripheral in much of evolutionary, cultural, psychological, and archaeological research.
October 2012
	Colloquium Wednesday, October 31, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Gathering Dust: Producing Therapeutic Natures in Post-socialist Siberia Tatiana Chudakova, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, and Visiting Research Associate, SAR This presentation traces the unruly assemblages of the “Buryat-Tibetan” pharmacon.
	Field Trip Saturday, October 27, 2012, 8:00–5:00 pm, Trip is Full Tsi-p’in-owinge’ Pueblo One of the “jewels of the Southwest,” Tsi-p’in-owinge’ Pueblo is located on a small mesa in the Rio Chama valley.
	Symposium Thursday, October 25–Friday, October 26, 2012, Free Registration 2012 Pueblo Indian Studies Symposium Historian Joe Sando’s legacy will be honored by highlighting current research in the field of Pueblo Indian studies.
	Colloquium Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Schooling Mothers: Gendered Memories and Reflections of the Self Fibian Kuvalani Lukalo, Senior Lecturer, Department of Communication and Media Studies, School of Human Resource Development, Moi University, and Campbell Resident Scholar, SAR Focusing on an impoverished agricultural community in Bungoma District in Kenya, Fibian Lukalo’s research examines the relationship between mothering practices and the schooling of girls in poor rural communities....
	Lecture Thursday, October 18, 2012, 6:30–7:30 pm, Free for SAR members • $10 for nonmembers Rebuilding New Orleans with Music Nick Spitzer Dr. Nick Spitzer relates why New Orleans culture is largely viewed as the primary agent of the city’s new sense of hope and relatively strong economy.
	Colloquium Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free The Politics of Life and Livelihood on the American Factory Farm Alex Blanchette, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies, Tufts University (Starting in 2013), and Weatherhead Resident Scholar, SAR Alex Blanchette’s research explores the idea of the factory in the American factory farm, tracking this vexed concept as it is enlivened within the workplaces of some of the world’s largest pork corporations.
	Artist Talk Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 5:30–7:00 pm, Free Writers Reading/Reading Writers: Karen Fisher The Literary Arts Program at SAR, funded by the Lannan Foundation, is pleased to host the fall “Writers Reading/Reading Writers” event, through which notable creative writers read from their own work and discuss selections from writers who have proven influential in their own creative process. In Karen Fisher’s case, historical sources provide this inspiration, including the life of one of SAR’s founding trustees, the anthropologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher.
	Field Trip Friday, October 12–Saturday, October 13, 2012, Trip is Full The Legendary Zuni-Acoma Trail The El Malpais National Monument is the best place in the lower fortyeight states to view young, Hawaiian-style volcanic deposits. The name “El Malpais” comes from early Spanish explorers and translates literally to “the bad country,” so-named because of the impenetrable nature of these lava flows.
	Colloquium Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Fin de Millennium Football in Japan: A Sport and an Age for “Individuals” Elise Edwards, Associate Professor, Department of History and Anthropology, Butler University, and Luce Resident Scholar, SAR This talk will focus on the ways that coaches, journalists, and professional players experienced, imagined, and inscribed soccer as the sport that most aptly replicated the dynamics of globalization and most effectively trained citizens and workers for a new world economy.
	Sparks Tuesday, October 9, 2012, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free Tasting New Mexico Cheryl & Bill Jamison Few aspects of life in New Mexico say as much about our cultural heritage as our food. We can directly trace our local cuisine to the corn and other crops first planted by the ancestors of the Pueblos, the frontier resourcefulness of Spanish colonists who brought livestock along with many fruits and vegetables, and the nineteenth-century introduction of new ingredients and ideas from the eastern US.
	Colloquium Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Journeys to Others and Lessons of Self: Carlos Castaneda, Indigenismo, and the Politics of a New Age Ageeth Sluis, Associate Professor, Departments of History and Anthropology, Butler University, and Visiting Research Associate, SAR This study sheds light on how new conceptions of indigenous identity informed “New Age” tourism to Mexico.
September 2012
	Field Trip Friday, September 28–Sunday, September 30, 2012, Trip is Full Moonrise over the Chaco World The Ancestral Puebloans of the American Southwest were one of many ancient cultures that followed the movement of the sun, stars, moon, and other heavenly bodies and aligned their dwellings to the sky, built monuments to celestial events, and depicted them artistically in rock art.
	Colloquium Wednesday, September 26, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Things Unseen: Specters of Colonialism, Visual Culture, and US Colonial Mentorship of Japan in 1860 Danika Medak-Saltzman, Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Katrin H. Lamon Resident Scholar, SAR. Dr. Medak-Saltzman will present a framework she terms “specters of colonialism" and use it to analyze two widely circulated woodblock prints from 1860: one made in Japan about the US, and the other made in the US about Japan.
	Lecture Thursday, September 20, 2012, 6:30–7:30 pm, Free for SAR members • $10 for nonmembers Humans—Are We the Exception? Jonathan Marks Dr. Jonathan Marks defends the surprisingly unpopular position that humans are different from other kinds of species and cannot readily be understood without taking humankind’s unique characteristics into consideration.
	Colloquium Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Beyond Snaketown: Property Rights and Corporate Group Formation in Hohokam Society Douglas B. Craig, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Northland Research, Inc. This presentation will provide a broad overview of Hohokam social organization and discuss new evidence for the emergence of large, land-holding corporate groups with inheritable property rights.
	Event Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 4:00–6:00 pm El Delirio Legacy Circle Celebration Legacy gifts to SAR will help support the School for generations to come. To honor the vital support of current El Delirio Legacy Circle members, SAR will be presenting these generous individuals with a token of our deep appreciation.
	Field Trip Friday, September 14–Monday, September 17, 2012, Trip is Full The Art and Culture of Hopi The trip will highlight the Hopi Pueblo culture of the past and present. Travel through the red and white sandstone cliffs of western New Mexico on Amtrak’s Southwest Chief for a three-night stay at one of the last great railroad hotels, La Posada in Winslow, AZ.
	Event Friday, September 14, 2012, 9:00 am–4:00 pm, Free A Rare Viewing at SAR: First-ever Camera Obscura in the Boardroom For the first time since it was built in the 1920s, the historic living room at El Delirio—the name given to the estate by its owners, Martha Root White and Amelia Elizabeth White, after their favorite bar in Spain—was transformed into a camera obscura. Coinciding with the recently installed photography exhibit Underscore Views, the rare viewing was likely one of the grandest camera obscuras ever seen in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
	Colloquium Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Cross-Cultural Approaches to Apprenticing in Western North America Jeanne Arnold, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, and Visiting Research Associate, SAR The Island Chumash of California’s Channel Islands were engaged in North America’s most intensive shell-working crafts from the AD 1100s–1800s.
	Sparks Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free Los Ciboleros: Spanish Buffalo Hunters Manuel Lopez Historical interpreter Manuel Lopez will discuss the history, hunting methods, and tales of the ciboleros, Spanish buffalo hunters of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in New Mexico.
	Colloquium Wednesday, September 5, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Introductory Presentations by 2012–2013 Resident Fellows
August 2012
	Tour Thursday, August 16–Friday, August 17, 2012, $20 per person Indian Market Tours IARC at SAR is offering special tours of its collection of Native American art before Indian Market weekend, August 16–17.
	Event Friday, August 10, 2012, 6:00–8:00 pm, $150 per person, SAR Members Only Our Second Century—Walking into the Future SAR will hold an invitation-only Showcase Event for our members and their guests to unveil our banner exhibit highlighting Native moccasins of the Southwest, including those in the Indian Arts Research Center collection, and to introduce the moccasin makers involved in the exhibit’s development and the new documentary film, To Feel the Earth.
	Artist Talk Thursday, August 9, 2012, 5:30–7:00 pm, Free, This Artist Talk is Full Louie García: Artist Talk, Reception, and Open Studio 2012 Ronald and Susan Dubin Native Artist Fellow While at SAR, Louie García intends to complete a 100% wool plaid blanket or manta woven in the traditional diamond and diagonal twill patterns, which are present on historic textiles.
	Colloquium Wednesday, August 1, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Selling the Exotic to the Exotic: Islamic Talismans in Nineteenth-Century Asante, Ghana Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, and Cotsen Fellow, SAR During the nineteenth century, Islamic talismans traveled the camel caravan trade routes across sub-Saharan Africa, circulating widely amongst the non-Muslim Asante.
July 2012
	Colloquium Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Ritual Transformations: Healing, Development, and Culture Show in an Amazonian Society Christopher Ball, McKennan Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, and Christopher Smeall Fellow, SAR This presentation addresses two abiding themes in cultural anthropology—the power of ritual to transform states of affairs in the social world, and changes in the meanings and functions of specific rituals under the effects of a globalized politics of identity.
	Colloquium Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free The Demographic Effects of Medieval Plague: Longevity and Health in Post-Black Death London Sharon N. DeWitte, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, and Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Fellow, SAR Using data from medieval London cemeteries, this presentation investigates the demographic and health effects of the fourteenth-century Black Death, one of the most devastating epidemics in human history and one which targeted relatively frail people.
	Colloquium Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Red, Black, and Brown: Indian Schools and Black Educators after Brown v. Board of Education Khalil Anthony Johnson Jr., Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies and African American Studies, Yale University, and Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Fellow, SAR In the wake of “massive resistance” to the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown decision, hundreds of African Americans migrated to Indian country to work as teachers in reservation schools.
	Colloquium Thursday, July 5, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free The Bog and the Beast, The Engraver and the Priest: Museums, the Nation, and the World Peggy Levitt, Professor, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College, and Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Fellow, SAR Ever since the leaders of the new French Republic opened the doors of the Louvre to the French public, museums have strongly influenced how people imagine the nations where they live.
June 2012
	Colloquium Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Romancing the Tribe: The History of an Anthropological Problem Lawrence Rosen, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, and William Y. and Nettie K. Adams Fellow, SAR The presentation will trace the history of the anthropological “romance of the tribe” not only for its impact on the discipline itself but how, as views of the tribe have changed, so have our views of humankind and the policies applied by Western nations in many parts of the world.
	Colloquium Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Selling Health in New Mexico: Bringing the Sick to the Land of the Well Nancy Owen Lewis, SAR Research Associate and Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Fellow During New Mexico’s struggle for statehood, territorial officials promoted its climate as ideal for curing tuberculosis, the leading cause of death in America. As proof, they cited the absence of disease among its native people. This presentation examines the factors that shaped the health seeker movement from 1880–1900—and its unintended consequences.
	Field Trip Saturday, June 9–Sunday, June 10, 2012 Paleoindians and Prairie Schooners Two iconic landmarks of New Mexico are the Santa Fe Trail and the Folsom site, a renowned Paleoindian site dating between 10,800 and 10,200 years ago.
	Field Trip Friday, June 8, 2012, 8:30–3:00 pm The Historic Los Luceros Hacienda The historic 140-acre Los Luceros property is one of the most beautifully restored nineteenth-century haciendas in northern New Mexico.
	Field Trip Saturday, June 2, 2012, 7:30–2:00 pm Pueblos of the Northern Galisteo Basin For three centuries, the Galisteo Basin was home to one of the largest concentrations of Puebloan communities in the Southwest.
May 2012
	Artist Talk Thursday, May 24, 2012, 5:30–7:00 pm, Free Maile Andrade: Artist Talk, Reception, and Open Studio 2012 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Artist Fellow Maile Andrade’s work reflects and is rooted in a native Hawaiian worldview. She creates traditional and contemporary arts using a wide range of media to develop innovative new techniques, materials, and themes.
	Colloquium Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Orality and the Native Image Nancy Marie Mithlo, Associate Professor, Department of Art History and American Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Anne Ray Resident Scholar, SAR The repatriation of historic photographs to original source communities often elicits oral responses as memory and imagination are animated.
	Speaker Series Thursday, May 17, 2012, 2:00–5:00 pm, Free Documenting Collections and Artists: Using Oral History Methods in the Preservation of Artist Legacies Rose T. Díaz Are you trying to create an oral history for works in your art collection or trying to document the works of a particular artist? This workshop will provide a process for documenting artist legacies using oral history methods.
	Colloquium Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Poetry Reading Malena Mörling, Research Associate, SAR Malena Mörling is the author of two collection of poetry, Ocean Avenue and Astoria as well as several translations. She will read her poems as well as translations of the pioneering, Finnish-Swedish modernist, Edith Södergran.
	Colloquium Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Anne Ray Intern Presentations SAR Anne Ray Interns Kelsey Potdevin and Jennifer McCarty Gatekeepers and Traders in Alaska’s Northwest Interior 1800–1870 and Inupiat Ilitqusiat: Those Things that Make Us Who We Are
	Field Trip Tuesday, May 8–Sunday, May 13, 2012 Llama Packing in Utah’s Spectacular Grand Gulch Wilderness Grand Gulch is a spectacular geologic feature on Cedar Mesa in southeastern Utah, and was once home to Basketmaker and Ancestral Puebloan peoples.
	Speaker Series Thursday, May 3, 2012, 2:00–5:00 pm, Free Documenting Collections and Artists: Making the Artwork Come Alive Jared Chavez, Keevin Lewis, and Nancy Marie Mithlo Explore projects that have been undertaken to document and preserve the lives of artists and their work.
	Event Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 2:00–3:30 pm, Free Planned Giving from Soup to Nuts A lighthearted afternoon tea and estate planning conversation (served with a hearty helping of humor).
	Colloquium Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Genealogies of Language Loss and Recovery: A Closer Look at Language in the Lives of Native American Youth Teresa L. McCarty, AW Snell Professor, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, and National Endowment for the Humanities Resident Scholar This presentation takes a closer look at the ways in which explicit and implicit policies about language are constructed intergenerationally in contexts of linguistic and cultural oppression, and how those policies take shape in indigenous young people’s lives.
April 2012
	Field Trip Friday, April 27, 2012, 8:00 am–5:00 pm Riding to Guaje: Northern Canyons of the Pajarito Plateau Archaeologist Edgar Lee Hewett and poet Peggy Pond Church are two people forever linked to the Pajarito Plateau in north-central New Mexico. US Forest Service archaeologists Mike Bremer and Anne Baldwin will be our expert guides on this backroad adventure.
	Lecture Thursday, April 26, 2012, 6:30–7:30 pm, FREE for SAR members • $10 for nonmembers The First American Civil War: The Revolution Alan Taylor Pulitzer Prize winner Alan Taylor presents a colorful talk on the American Revolution, our first Civil War.
	Colloquium Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Mexican Migration and the Politics of Religious Revivalism in New Mexico Aimee V. Garza, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Visiting Research Associate, SAR The Catholic Charismatic Renewal or renovación carismática is a religious revitalization movement that is sweeping northern Mexico, growing in popularity with Mexican migrants residing in the United States, and changing what it means to be Catholic on both sides of the border.
	Speaker Series Thursday, April 19, 2012, 2:00–5:00 pm, Free Case Studies: Problems and Solutions in Artist Estates Margarete Bagshaw, Bruce Bernstein, Kate Fitz Gibbon, and David Rettig In this panel discussion, representatives of artist estates, such as those of Allan Houser, Pablita Velarde, Helen Hardin, and Harry Fonseca, will discuss the various challenges and benefits involved with managing these estates.
	Artist Talk Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 5:30–7:00 pm, FREE for SAR members • $10 for nonmembers Writers Reading/Reading Writers: Téa Obreht Performance by musical trio Rumelia starting at 5:00 pm The literary arts program at the School for Advanced Research, supported by the Lannan Foundation, is honored to host the spectacularly gifted young writer Téa Obreht in our “Writers Reading/Reading Writers” series.
	Speaker Series Thursday, April 12, 2012, 2:00–5:00 pm, Free Legal Issues: Artist Rights and Estate Planning Kate Fitz Gibbon This lecture addresses the legal issues that arise with artist legacies and rights, such as how to work with museums, estate planning, and tax issues. Attorney Kate Fitz Gibbon will touch on these issues and answer questions from the audience.
	Field Trip Wednesday, April 11–Monday, April 16, 2012 Llama Packing in Utah’s Spectacular Grand Gulch Wilderness Grand Gulch is a spectacular geologic feature on Cedar Mesa in southeastern Utah, and was once home to Basketmaker and Ancestral Puebloan peoples.
	Colloquium Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Keen Eyes: Recovering Bertha Parker's Lost Contributions to Indigenous Archaeology Margaret M. Bruchac, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, and Katrin H. Lamon Resident Scholar, SAR This research is excerpted from a book manuscript that critically examines and reconceptualizes relations among American anthropologists and indigenous informants.
	Sparks Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free New Mexico Monks Brewing Beer: A Historical Tradition Berkeley Merchant and Brother Christian Leisy In the United States, the monastic brewing tradition is carried on only at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, north of Abiquiu, New Mexico.
	Colloquium Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Mining Mongolia: Reflections on the “Resource Curse,” Poverty, and Applied Anthropology in the Asian El Dorado Craig R. Janes, Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University and Henry Luce Foundation Resident Scholar, SAR Dr. Janes will reflect on the emergence and exacerbation of poverty and rural underdevelopment in the face of vast mineral wealth, and discuss efforts to address the social and health impacts of mining and related development activities.
March 2012
	Field Trip Saturday, March 31, 2012, 7:30 am–5:00 pm Mystery of the Gallina People The obscure ancient culture known as the Gallina occupied a remote region of northwestern New Mexico around AD 1100. The culture suddenly vanished around 1275, as the last of its members either left or were “wiped out.”
	Speaker Series Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 3:00–5:00 pm, Free It Takes a Village to Support an Artist: Funding Projects Using Social Media and the Internet Katharine DeShaw This lecture explores the recent trend of micro-philanthropy to support artists and their projects. Katharine DeShaw, United States Artists executive director, speaks about USA Projects.
	Colloquium Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Disturbing Bodies: The Politics and Practice of Forensic Exhumation Advanced Seminar co-chairs Zoë Crossland, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University; and Rosemary Joyce, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley What values and beliefs underlie the burgeoning practice of forensic exhumation—re-excavating human remains to address questions of justice?
	Artist Talk Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 5:00–6:00 pm, Free David Treuer to Launch New Book at SAR Celebrated Native novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. He will talk at SAR about his first full-length work of nonfiction.
	Field Trip Friday, March 23, 2012, 8:00 am–5:30 pm The World of Laguna Pueblo Laguna Pueblo is one of the largest Keresan pueblos in New Mexico and consists of the six small villages of Encinal, Laguna, Mesita, Paguate, Paraje, and Seama. The majestic white San José Mission sits atop the hill in the center of Laguna.
	Speaker Series Thursday, March 15, 2012, 3:00–5:00 pm, Free Artist Fellowships and Residencies: Who, What, When, Where, Why? Jennifer Complo McNutt, Elysia Poon, Reuben Tomás Roqueñi, and John Torres-Nez This panel discussion focuses on artist fellowships and residencies, why they are important, what opportunities are available, and what is expected when applying. Representatives from the Indian Arts Research Center, Eiteljorg Museum, Southwest Association for Indian Arts, and Native Arts & Cultures Foundation participate.
	Colloquium Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Obesity and Body Image Concerns among High School Teens Nicole Taylor, Director, Scholar Programs, SAR Popular obesity discourses in the US have constructed a perceptual reality wherein it seems as though no one is safe from becoming fat.
	Sparks Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free In Search of Francisco Atanasio Dominguez & Silvestre Velez de Escalante Gregory MacGregor and Siegfried Halus The 1776 expedition of Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de Escalante circumnavigated 1800 miles of unchartered territory never before seen by Europeans.
	Colloquium Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Subversive Spiritualties: How Rituals Enact the World Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Smith College Apffel-Marglin draws on Bohrian quantum physics and critical science studies, as well as empirical data from archaeology, geography, ethnobotany, and anthropology, to argue that there is no pre-given nature as the back-drop to human action.
	Lecture Thursday, March 1, 2012, 6:30–7:30 pm, FREE for SAR members • $10 for nonmembers Pride, Prejudice, and Power: Indigenous Arts Movements at Home and Abroad Nancy Marie Mithlo The display, circulation, and consumption of American Indian arts has radically changed with the advent of new technologies, enhanced mobility, and awakened political sensibilities.
February 2012
	Colloquium Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Chaco and Cahuachi: A Tale of Two Pilgrimage Centers John Kantner, Vice President for Academic & Institutional Advancement Comparative archaeological investigation of Chaco Canyon in the US Southwest and Cahuachi on the south coast of Peru is providing insights into how large pilgrimage centers develop.
	Colloquium Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Mexican Migration and its Discontents in the U.S. South Since 1960 Julie Weise, Assistant Professor, International Studies Program, California State University, Long Beach and Weatherhead Resident Scholar This presentation discusses the Mexican agricultural workers who moved to rural Georgia in the 1960s–1980s, and goes on to explain Mexican migration to greater Charlotte, North Carolina since 1990.
	Colloquium Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Why More Boys than Girls—Or More Girls than Boys?: New Findings on Human Sex Ratio Variation at Birth John Martin, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University and Visiting Research Associate; and Paul Wren, Senior Principle Engineer, Performance Software Corporation, Phoenix, AZ, and Co-Founder and Administrator of Open Anthropology Cooperative Why is the ratio of male to female births among women who do not live with other women of fertile age higher than it is with women who do?
	Sparks Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free San Augustin Church Illuminated Tom Windes Sitting on the north side of the Isleta Pueblo plaza, the massive, white structure of the San Augustin Church dominates the pueblo’s skyline.
	Artist Talk Monday, February 13, 2012, 5:30–7:00 pm, Free, This Artist Talk is Full Janice Gould in Conversation with Joy Harjo: Reading, Conversation, & Reception 2012 Indigenous Writer-in-Residence
	Lecture Thursday, February 9, 2012, 6:30–7:30 pm, FREE for SAR members • $10 for non-members The Fossil Chronicles: Revolutions in Paleoanthropology Dean Falk Dr. Dean Falk compares two momentous discoveries to illustrate the twists, turns, competition, and passions that have always characterized research on human origins.
	Colloquium Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free The Coronado Expedition, Discoveries Since 1992 Richard and Shirley Flint, Research Associates, Archaeology Southwest NPS concluded that insufficient information existed about the route followed by the Coronado expedition. Subsequently, a major campsite of the Coronado expedition was located in Texas.
	Colloquium Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free A State for Sanctuary: The Curious Life of a Controversial Proclamation Aimee V. Garza, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz and SAR Visiting Research Associate This lecture uncovers the untold history of the Sanctuary Movement in New Mexico during the 1980s.
January 2012
	Colloquium Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free The Federal Indian Service and Intertribal Identity at the Turn of the 20th Century Cathleen Cahill, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of New Mexico Cathleen Cahill will discuss her recently published book, Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the US Indian Service.
	Colloquium Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Unpacking Gendered Institutional Norms: Who Holds the Mouse? Why? Wossen Argaw Tegegn, Research Scholar, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, and Campbell Resident Scholar This presentation questions the often unquestioned norms whereby men control equipment such as the mouse in computer science labs, the theodolite in surveying technology field sessions, and the voltmeter in electrical engineering workshops.
	Book Event Tuesday, January 17, 2012, 6:00–7:30 pm, Free Art in Our Lives: Native Women Artists in Dialogue Readers’ Club at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum The artists participated in three seminars at SAR’s Indian Arts Research Center and covered topics such as home/place, transgression/boundaries, art as healing/art as struggle, pain/joy, art practice/work, and survival/colonization. Join us for a most interesting discussion of selections from this work.
	Colloquium Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free The Evolution of the Human Family Laura Fortunato, 2011 Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute This talk presents recent advances in the application of evolutionary thinking to the study of the human family, focusing on the evolution of marriage and inheritance strategies.
	Sparks Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free Sand River in Bloom Beverley Spears Beverley Spears has walked a one-mile stretch of the Arroyo de los Chamisos for the past twenty years. She has noted and documented with charts and photographs the multitude of wildflowers there as well as considered the hydrology and conservation of this landscape.
December 2011
	Colloquium Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Reframing Global Health in the Context of Environmental Crisis Kitty Corbett, Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, and SAR Visiting Research Associate Human communities are facing unprecedented threats from natural resource depletion, extinctions, pollution, overpopulation, and climate change.
	Sparks Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 3:00–4:00 pm New Mexico’s Stumble to Statehood Jon Hunner From corrupt politicians to bitter partisan battles, from an inopportune handshake to presidential prerogatives, New Mexico lurched to statehood through prejudice, racism, and national power struggles.
	Colloquium Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Reading the Image: The Photography of Horace Poolaw in Context Nancy Marie Mithlo, Associate Professor, Department of Art History and American Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Anne Ray Resident Scholar Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw (1906–1984) documented the vibrancy of the southern Plains communities near Anadarko, Oklahoma with a keen sense of place and people.
	Lecture Thursday, December 1, 2011, 6:30–7:30 pm, FREE for SAR members • $10 for non-members Revolutions: The Age of Metal and the Evolution of European Civilization William Parkinson The evolution of agricultural villages in Europe, from their beginning in the Neolithic through their fluorescence during the Bronze Age, is the subject of this illustrated lecture.
November 2011
	Artist Talk Monday, November 28, 2011, 5:30–7:00 pm, Free Franklin Peters: Artist Talk, Reception, and Open Studio 2011 Rollin and Mary Ella King Native Artist Fellow Emerging artist Franklin Peters of Acoma Pueblo spent three months studying the collections at the Indian Arts Research Center to better understand the techniques and processes of his ancestors.
	Event Thursday, November 10, 2011, 6:30–8:30 pm, Free Southwestern Research and Education Triangle A Gathering to Celebrate Achievements of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, SMU; the School for Advanced Research; and SMU-in-Taos
	Colloquium Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Corazón de Dixie: Migration and the Struggle for Rights in the U.S. South and Mexico, 1910–2010 Julie Weise, Assistant Professor, International Studies Program, California State University, Long Beach, and Weatherhead Resident Scholar This presentation chronicles the vibrant transnational world of Mexican migrants in the U.S.
	Sparks Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free The New Deal in New Mexico Kathryn Flynn The Great Depression (1933–1943) left the United States in a state of crisis and New Mexico needed help just like the rest of the nation.
	Field Trip Saturday, November 5, 2011, 7:30 am–5:00 pm Mystery of the Gallina People Canceled Due to Winter Weather The obscure ancient culture known as the Gallina occupied a remote region of northwestern New Mexico around A.D. 1100. The culture suddenly vanished around 1275, as the last of its members either left or were “wiped out.”
	Colloquium Wednesday, November 2, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free A Perfect Storm: Climate Change and Liberal Economic Development in Mongolia Craig Janes, Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, and Henry Luce Resident Scholar This presentation examines how Mongolia’s transition from Soviet-style socialism to an unregulated free-market economy has affected the productivity and sustainability of agriculture and livestock herding.
October 2011
	Colloquium Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Indigenous Youth and Language Survival Teresa L. McCarty, Snell Professor, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, and National Endowment for the Humanities Resident Scholar Research with Native American communities undergoing rapid heritage-language loss.
	Event Thursday, October 20, 2011, 5:00–7:00 pm Membership Appreciation Event Event is Full Special event for members only
	Colloquium Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free A Fire on the Foot: A Case of Gender-Based Violence in a University Setting Wossen Argaw Tegegn, Research Scholar, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, and Campbell Resident Scholar This presentation demonstrates how the culture of gender-based violence in a university setting is a function of the gendered power dynamics observed in the wider patriarchal society.
	Field Trip Saturday, October 15, 2011, 9:00 am–3:00 pm Santo Domingo Pueblo Pottery Demonstration with Robert Tenorio Pottery Demonstration and Firing at Santo Domingo Pueblo Robert Tenorio will demonstrate each step as he makes a pot, while allowing participants to try out their own artistic skills by painting a small piece with a yucca-fiber paintbrush.
	Colloquium Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Biosecurity and Vulnerability Advanced Seminar co-chairs Lesley A. Sharp, Ann Whitney Olin Professor, Department of Anthropology, Barnard College, and Senior Research Scientist in Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; and Nancy N. Chen, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz This presentation addresses the perilous embodied consequences associated with a recent proliferation in global security measures.
	Artist Talk Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 5:30–7:00 pm, Free Writers Reading/Reading Writers: Alan Heathcock The Literary Arts Program at SAR, funded by the Lannan Foundation, is pleased to host the Fall “Writers Reading/Reading Writers” event, through which notable creative writers read from their own work, as well as discuss selections from writers who have been most influential in their own careers, in Heathcock’s case, Santa Fe novelist Cormac McCarthy.
	Sparks Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free Recognizing Authentic Handmade Native American Art Tony Eriacho, Jr. What is the difference between handmade and handcrafted Native art?
	Field Trip Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 10:00–11:00 am Santo Domingo Pueblo Pottery Demonstration with Robert Tenorio Preview of Santo Domingo Pottery with Robert Tenorio at IARC Robert Tenorio will meet with participants in the Indian Arts Research Center to share his knowledge of Pueblo pottery.
	Lecture Thursday, October 6, 2011, 6:30–7:30 pm, FREE for SAR members • $10 for non-members Creativity and Revolution: Egypt at a Crossroads Jessica Winegar Dr. Winegar presents a look at the creative expressions of a revolution that shook the world.
	Colloquium Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Consorting with Savages: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists Margaret M. Bruchac, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, and Katrin H. Lamon Resident Scholar A series of case studies serve to illustrate how Native gatekeepers assisted and resisted the exchange of knowledge.
	Field Trip Saturday, October 1–Sunday, October 2, 2011 Archaeology of the Jemez Pueblo Revolt Overnight in Jemez Springs During this two-day hiking adventure, we will visit three of the Jemez refuge pueblos constructed in the immediate aftermath of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt...
September 2011
	Colloquium Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm A Tale of Two Traders: Bill Beaver and Mark Winter Susan Brown McGreevy, Humanities Scholar, Utah Museum of Natural History, and IARC Research Associate While many trading posts within the Navajo Nation have closed their doors, the stories of Beaver and Winter revisit the relationships between trader and artist within a framework of collecting, documenting, and artistic development.
	Colloquium Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm, Free Māori Learners Enjoying Success as Māori in Māori/English Language Programs Cath Rau, Hemi Rau, Paul Royal, Eleanor Eketone, Moana Salu, Robyn Hata-Gage, and Pihere Levi; New Zealand (Aotearoa) Practitioners working in two long-established heritage language programs in New Zealand will discuss the programs in their respective schools and share examples of Māori students enjoying success as Māori.
	Field Trip Friday, September 16, 2011, 8:00 am–2:30 pm Protecting Pueblo Blanco Pueblo Blanco was one of the basin’s largest and most densely populated sites with approximately 1,450 rooms, encompassing several plazas and kivas within a 20-acre area...
	Colloquium Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Health as a Family Matter: Health and Well-Being as Enacted in Dual-Earner Middle-Class Family Life in Los Angeles Linda C. Garro, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, and SAR Visiting Research Associate Most US health research relies on individuals as the unit of analysis.
	Sparks Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 3:00–4:00 pm Water Flows Uphill Toward Money: How the Santa Fe River Became Privatized Alan “Mac” Watson The Santa Fe River was a community-owned resource during the Spanish Colonial and Mexican periods, but became a privately owned commodity in 1880.
	Book Event Sunday, September 11, 2011, 2:00–4:00 pm The Santa Fe Fiesta, Reinvented FREE Discussion and Book Signing with Sarah Bronwen Horton
	Field Trip Friday, September 9–Sunday, September 11, 2011 Behind the Scenes at Mesa Verde: Wetherill Mesa Overnight in Mesa Verde National Park Our trip to Wetherill Mesa is more than just a visit to another cliff dwelling. It offers archaeological viewing in near solitude and with an expert guide with life-long experiences working in National Parks that protect Ancestral Puebloan and Basketmaker cultures.
	Colloquium Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Introductory Presentations by the 2011–2012 SAR Resident Fellows
August 2011
	Field Trip Saturday, August 27, 2011, 8:00 am–2:30 pm Protecting Pueblo Blanco Pueblo Blanco was one of the basin’s largest and most densely populated sites with approximately 1,450 rooms, encompassing several plazas and kivas within a 20-acre area...
	Event Friday, August 19, 2011, 4:30–7:00 pm Special Indian Market Event for SAR Friends: Reception and Dialogue with Jeffrey Gibson This talk investigates the influences of Native arts and culture on Jeffrey Gibson at the opening of his exhibition, Trade.
	Tour Thursday, August 18–Friday, August 19, 2011 Indian Market Tours Indian Arts Research Center IARC at SAR is offering special tours of its collection of Native American art before Indian Market weekend, August 18–19.
	Artist Talk Thursday, August 11, 2011, 5:30–7:00 pm Brent Michael Davids: Artist Talk, Reception, and Open Studio 2011 Ronald and Susan Dubin Fellow Davids is a world-renowned Mohican composer based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He has won numerous awards including being named one of the top twenty-nine preeminent American Choral composers by the NEA for its national celebration, American Masterpiece...
	Colloquium Wednesday, August 3, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Historiography and Anthropology: The Case of Frances Densmore Joan M. Jensen, Professor Emerita, Department of History, New Mexico State University, and Adams Summer Scholar This presentation sheds new light on the work of anthropologist Frances Densmore.
July 2011
	Field Trip Saturday, July 30, 2011, 8:00 am–5:00 pm Riding to Guaje: Northern Canyons of the Pajarito Plateau Trip Cancelled Due to Fires Archaeologist Edgar Lee Hewett and poet Peggy Pond Church are two people forever linked to the Pajarito Plateau in north-central New Mexico. US Forest Service archaeologists Mike Bremer and Anne Baldwin will be our expert guides on this backroad adventure.
	Colloquium Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Late Antique and Byzantine Monuments and the Topography of Southern Caria in the Light of New Archaeological Evidence Ufuk Serin, Guest Scholar, Department of Architecture, Middle East University, Turkey, and Cotsen Summer Scholar This presentation examines the archaeology, history, and art history of Late Antique and Byzantine monuments in Southern Caria, Turkey.
	Colloquium Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Awa Tsireh’s Paintings of Koshare and the Politics of Preservation Sascha Scott, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Music Histories, Syracuse University, and Bunting Summer Scholar Analysis of the paintings by Awa Tsireh of San Ildefonso illuminates the Pueblos’ role in the political and cultural debates of the 1920s.
	Field Trip Saturday, July 16, 2011, 7:30 am–5:00 pm A Tour of Hanat Kotyiti and Kuapa Pueblos Trip Cancelled Due to Fires Today, the Keres-speaking villages of Cochiti Pueblo and San Felipe Pueblo lie along the banks of the Rio Grande. Prior to Spanish contact, however, the Cochiti and San Felipe people lived together in the ancestral village of Kuapa.
	Colloquium Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Complexities of Negotiating Cultural and Linguistic Identities Online—in Balinese Edmundo Cruz Luna, Instructor, Department of English Education, Mokpo National University, South Korea, and Smeall Summer Scholar This presentation addresses how native Balinese speakers develop and present their cultural and linguistic identities in online forums.
	Colloquium Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Writing an Ethnography of “Our Lives”: Collaborative Exhibit Making at the National Museum of the American Indian Jennifer Shannon, Assistant Professor and Curator, Department of Anthropology and Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Bunting Summer Scholar The predicaments and rewards resulting from the commitment by the National Museum of the American Indian to collaborate with Native peoples.
June 2011
	Colloquium Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Why We Left: A Literary Archaeology of Anglo-American Colonialism Joanna Brooks, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University, and Bunting Summer Scholar During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, thousands of peasants left England for North America.
	Sparks Tuesday, June 7, 2011, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free Collectible Southwestern Native American Jewelry Joe & Cindy Tanner How do you purchase collectible Southwestern Native American jewelry and insure that you are making a good investment?
	Field Trip Friday, June 3, 2011, 8:00 am–5:00 pm Following the Fiber Trail Trip is Sold Out The fiber arts of New Mexico encompass both the Hispanic and Native American traditions and are especially important for women, helping them to develop a sustainable future for their families.
May 2011
	Artist Talk Thursday, May 26, 2011, 5:30–7:00 pm Linda Aguilar: Artist Talk, Reception, and Open Studio 2011 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Fellow There is a stigma that basketmakers face: “Traditional” or “Non-Traditional.” Linda’s response: “I am both.” She works mostly with horsehair and waxed thread, non-traditional materials, but approaches the weaving in a very traditional manner.
	Lecture Thursday, May 19, 2011, 6:30–7:30 pm The Big Pueblo at Arroyo Hondo and the Intriguing Stories It Tells Douglas W. Schwartz (School for Advanced Research) Around A.D. 1300, a great new pueblo of 1,000 rooms emerged at Arroyo Hondo, just south of what is now Santa Fe.
	Colloquium Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Captives: Invisible Agents of Culture Change Catherine M. Cameron, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, and Weatherhead Resident Scholar This presentation explores the role of captives in captor society, how they affected captor social boundaries, and their potential impact on culture change.
	Field Trip Friday, May 13–Sunday, May 15, 2011 Behind the Scenes at Mesa Verde: Wetherill Mesa Trip is Sold Out Overnight in Mesa Verde National Park Our trip to Wetherill Mesa is more than just a visit to another cliff dwelling. It offers archaeological viewing in near solitude and with an expert guide with life-long experiences working in National Parks that protect Ancestral Puebloan and Basketmaker cultures.
	Colloquium Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Indigenous Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Persistence in Place Melissa K. Nelson, Associate Professor, Department of American Indian Studies, San Francisco State University, and Anne Ray Resident Scholar This presentation explores the philosophies, methods, and practices of Indigenous science as articulated by Native scholars, leaders, and traditional practitioners.
	Sparks Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free Compadres: Kit Carson and Lucien Maxwell Steve Zimmer Mountain men Lucien Maxwell and Kit Carson became fast friends when the two served under Capt. John C. Fremont in his 1842 expedition to the Rocky Mountains.
	Colloquium Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Rethinking the Urban/Reservation Relationship in American Indian History Doug Kiel, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Katrin H. Lamon Resident Scholar A growing body of scholarly literature has examined urban Indian experiences and 20th century reservation histories, but little attention has been devoted to the connections between urban and reservation communities.
April 2011
	Colloquium Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Woven Kin: Exploring Representation and Collaboration in Navajo Weaving Teresa Montoya (Diné), M.A. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Denver, and Anne Ray Native Intern This presentation explores the relationship between representational strategies and the employment of critical indigenous methodologies in the display of Navajo weavings in both Native and non-Native museums.
	Colloquium Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Capitalism and Cloves: A Critique of Historical Archaeology Sarah K. Croucher, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Wesleyan University, and Weatherhead Resident Scholar Working on historical archaeology in Eastern Africa raises questions as to how the narrative of Islamic plantations might be written into a global historical archaeology. This talk addresses the potential for changing taken-for-granted narratives in this field by writing Zanzibar back in to the archaeology of the modern world.
	Field Trip Saturday, April 16, 2011, 8:30 am–2:00 pm Mesa Prieta Petroglyphs Trip is Sold Out Mesa Prieta is a basalt escarpment located on the west side of the Rio Grande north of Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan Pueblo). Evidence of historic and prehistoric occupation of this area goes back over 9,000 years.
	Lecture Thursday, April 14, 2011, 6:30–7:30 pm Archaeological Virtual Reality: Building the True Digital Museum Doug Gann (Center for Desert Archaeology) Doug Gann takes a critical look at the evolution of virtual archaeology, examining the techniques used to virtually share archaeological research with the public.
	Speaker Series Thursday, April 14, 2011, 12:30–3:00 pm Lecture and Mini-workshop: Preserving Three-Dimensional Native Works Bettina Raphael, Conservator in Private Practice An artifact conservator for museums and private collector for the past 30 years, Bettina Raphael will focus on the importance of preventive care of three-dimensional objects and low-cost storage solutions.
	Artist Talk Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 5:30–7:30 pm Writers Reading/Reading Writers: Malena Mörling & Tomas Tranströmer Lannan Literary Fellowship recipient and SAR Research Associate Malena Mörling (UNC Wilmington) will read from her translations of the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, one of the most significant European contemporary poets. She will also read her own poems and discuss the tremendous influence of Tranströmer’s work on her own.
	Sparks Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free A History of the Ancient Southwest Steve Lekson The history of the ancient Southwest played out on a continent rife with states and empires, commerce and conquest. Southwestern societies were neither ignorant nor immune to their world.
	Colloquium Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm The 9/11 Generation: Young Muslims in the New World Order Advanced Seminar Co-chairs Adeline Masquelier, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, and Benjamin F. Soares, Senior Research Fellow, African Studies Center, Leiden The traumatic events of September 11, 2001 have shaped the consciousness of a new global generation. What it means to be young and Muslim has changed. Coming of age in a Muslim majority society or as a Muslim minority in America and Europe is described by the co-chairs of this SAR seminar.
March 2011
	Field Trip Friday, March 25–Sunday, March 27, 2011 Hembrillo: An Apache Battlefield of the Victorio War Trip is Sold Out Overnight in Las Cruces The battle of Hembrillo was the largest confrontation of the Victorio War of 1879, pitting approximately 150 Warm Springs and Mescalero Apache against 300 U.S. Army troops including Buffalo Soldiers and White Mountain Apache Scouts.
	Colloquium Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Voyageur Re-presentations and Complications: Frances Anne Hopkins and the Métis Nation of Ontario Gloria Bell (Métis), M.A. in Art History, Carleton University, and Anne Ray Native Intern People of Native (Cree, Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee) and European (English, French, Irish, Scottish) descent, métis, were employed as voyageurs in the fur-trade since the early eighteenth century in the Great Lakes area, yet their voices are absent in the historical records and their bodies and lifestyle are often represented as “other.”
	Speaker Series Thursday, March 17, 2011, 12:30–2:00 pm Lecture: Creating Collaborative Catalogs Jim Enote, Director, A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center Thousands of items removed from Zuni Pueblo have found their way into private and public collections, yet very few Zuni people know what they may be, where they are, and what they look like.
	Colloquium Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Street Economies, Politics, and Social Movements in the Urban Global South Advanced Seminar Co-chairs Walter E. Little, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Albany, State University of New York; Karen Tranberg Hansen, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University; and B. Lynne Milgram, Professor of Anthropology, Faculty of Liberal Studies, Ontario College of Art and Design
	Lecture Thursday, March 10, 2011, 6:30–7:30 pm Breaking New Cinematic Ground: Aboriginal Canadian Experimental Videos Kristin Dowell (University of Oklahoma) Dr. Kristin Dowell presents a multimedia look at experimental video production among Aboriginal media artists whose unconventional approach is redefining Canadian media practice.
	Sparks Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free The World of Magic and the Supernatural Among Hispanics Nasario García Dr. García is the author of numerous books that deal with the culture and folklore of New Mexico, among them Brujerías: Stories of Witchcraft and the Supernatural in the American Southwest and Beyond.
	Colloquium Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Evolution and Asperger’s Syndrome: Is There a Connection? Dean Falk, SAR Senior Scholar and Hale G. Professor, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University
February 2011
	Speaker Series Thursday, February 24, 2011, 12:30–2:00 pm Panel Discussion: NAGPRA’s Newest Rule—43 CFR 10.11 Bambi Kraus, Director, National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Peter Pino, Tribal Administrator, Zia Pueblo Gary Roybal, Native American Liaison, Bandelier National Monument On March 5, 2010, NAGPRA Final Rule 43 CFR 10.11 – Disposition of Culturally Unidentifiable Native American Human Remains, was passed by Congress.
	Colloquium Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Unwed Mothers in Morocco: Between Social Damnation and (Possible) Legal Redemption Jamila Bargach, Academic Director, Foundation SiHmad Derhem for the Development of the South and the Sahara, and Campbell Resident Scholar
	Artist Talk Thursday, February 17, 2011, 5:30–7:00 pm Santee Frazier: Presentation and Discussion 2011 Indigenous Writer-in-Residence
	Colloquium Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Ethnogenesis and Human Diversity: The Tewa Case Scott G. Ortman, Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute, and Lightfoot Fellow, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
	Sparks Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free A Very Special Place: The Geography and Archaeology of Santa Fe Jason Shapiro Santa Fe is one of those unique places in which a constellation of physical factors have enabled people to live and prosper for literally thousands of years.
	Colloquium Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Comic Books for Big Girls: Uchida Shungiku and the Realm of the Dollhouse Eve Zimmerman, Associate Professor of Japanese, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Wellesley College
January 2011
	Colloquium Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Native Designers of High Fashion: Expressing Identity, Creativity, and Tradition in Contemporary Clothing Design Jessica R. Metcalfe, Postdoctoral Diversity Fellow, Office for Equity and Inclusion, Department of Anthropology and Native Studies, University of New Mexico
	Colloquium Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 12:00–1:00 pm Late to Terminal Classic Ritual Transitions at the Ancient Maya City of El Perú-Waká, Petén, Guatemala: A View from Structure M13-1 Olivia C. Navarro-Farr, Postdoctoral Diversity Fellow, Office for Equity and Inclusion, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
December 2010
	Colloquium Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Culture Against Life: Bodily Affliction, Transnational Governance, and the Limits of the Human in the Gran Chaco Lucas Bessire, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mellon/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowship Program, and SAR Visiting Research Associate
	Sparks Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free Albert Fountain and the Spiderweb Trail Karl Laumbach On February 1, 1896, Albert Jennings Fountain, prominent attorney and politician, and his 8-year-old son were run off the road between White Sands and Las Cruces, presumably murdered.
	Colloquium Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Still Singing: The Eco-Cultural Revitalization of the Southern Paiute Salt Song Trail Melissa K. Nelson, Associate Professor, Department of American Indian Studies, San Francisco State University, and Anne Ray Resident Scholar
	Colloquium Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Making Local Identities: Ceramic Production in 19th-Century Eastern Africa Sarah K. Croucher, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Wesleyan University, and Weatherhead Resident Scholar
November 2010
	Speaker Series Thursday, November 18, 2010, 12:30–3:30 pm Lecture and Mini-workshop: Archival Records and Document Management Diane Bird, Archivist, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology Archivist Diane Bird will focus on several topics relating to creating and maintaining archives during this hands-on interactive workshop.
	Artist Talk Thursday, November 11, 2010, 5:30–6:30 pm Aric Chopito: Artist Talk, Reception, and Open Studio 2010 Rollin and Mary Ella King Native Artist Fellow Aric Chopito is one of the few weavers practicing at Zuni Pueblo today. While at the Indian Arts Research Center (IARC), Aric plans to create a kilt using a semi-brocade technique.
	Colloquium Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Captives and the Creation of Power Catherine M. Cameron, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, and Weatherhead Resident Scholar
	Sparks Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free Los Arabes de Nuevo México Monika Ghattas Beginning in the late 1880s, Syrian-Lebanese immigrants began arriving in the New Mexico territory, looking for economic opportunities.
	Lecture Thursday, November 4, 2010, 6:30–7:30 pm Africa’s Diamond Mines and the Contradictions of Visual Anthropology Daniel Hoffman (University of Washington) For Dr. Daniel Hoffman, the anthropologist with a camera, the diamond mines of West Africa present definite contradictions.
	Colloquium Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Dreams Deferred: Competing Visions for Social Change on the Oneida Reservation Doug Kiel, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Katrin H. Lamon Resident Scholar
October 2010
	Colloquium Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Scalar Thresholds in the Ancient Southwest: Density and Distance Stephen H. Lekson, Curator and Professor, Museum of Natural History and Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Visiting Research Associate
	Colloquium Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Abstract Landscapes and Social Visions: Reading Southwestern Photobooks Audrey Goodman, Associate Professor of English, Georgia State University
	Speaker Series Thursday, October 14, 2010, 12:30–3:30 pm Lecture and Mini-workshop: Conserving Two-Dimensional Native Collections Dale Kronkright, Head of Conservation, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum An expert in conservation, Dale Kronkright will focus on conserving two-dimensional works on a budget.
	Colloquium Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Harvesting Fog: Introducing a Multi-faceted Problem Jamila Bargach, Academic Director, Foundation SiHmad Derhem for the Development of the South and the Sahara, and Campbell Resident Scholar
	Sparks Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free Native America Calling Harlan McKosato Native America Calling is the nation's first and only electronic talking circle. Mr. McKosato's talk will allow participants to engage in a conversation about Native issues.
	Field Trip Friday, October 8–Saturday, October 9, 2010 El Morro and Zuni Pueblo This Trip is Sold Out Guided by Dr. Jim Kendrick and Randy and Milford Nahohai, with an overnight in Zuni Pueblo
	Lecture Thursday, October 7, 2010, 6:30–7:30 pm Cave, City, and Eagles Nest: Rediscovered Mexican Codex Davíd Carrasco (Harvard University) Dr. Davíd Carrasco, historian of religions, presents an illustrated lecture on a recently recovered early 16th-century Mexican Codex.
	Colloquium Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm A Drummer Listens to the World Nii Otoo Annan, Percussion Master, Ghana, and Steven Feld, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Music, University of New Mexico
September 2010
	Colloquium Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Reassembling the Collection: Indigenous Agency and Ethnographic Collections Advanced seminar chairs Sarah Byrne, University of London; Annie Clarke, University of Sydney; Rodney Harrison, Open University; and Robin Torrence, Australian Museum Museum collections are established through a complex series of interactions in which indigenous peoples play a key role. The preliminary results of current research are discussed.
	Colloquium Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Pilgrims Drawn to Sacred Power: Santiago de Compostela Douglas W. Schwartz, Senior Scholar, SAR Who and why are pilgrims and what occurs during their journeys? After a general introduction, a detailed look follows at one major pilgrimage that has continued for a thousand years to Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain.
	Field Trip Friday, September 17, 2010, 9:00 am–2:30 pm Spectacular Comanche Gap This Trip is Sold Out Guided by Dr. Polly Schaafsma
	Colloquium Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Scaloria Cave: Found, Lost and Found Again Ernestine Elster, Research Associate, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, and SAR Visiting Research Associate Neolithic underground ritual is examined in this presentation on Scaloria Cave in Italy, a site discovered in the 1930s, but subsequently lost and found. The relationship between the cave and the Neolithic villages on the Tavoliere Plain is discussed.
	Sparks Tuesday, September 14, 2010, 3:00–4:00 pm, Free Pageants and Parades: The Battle for Fiesta Nancy Owen Lewis In 1919, the Santa Fe Fiesta began a major transformation under the leadership of Edgar Lee Hewett, director of SAR and the Museum of New Mexico.
	Colloquium Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Introductory Presentations by 2010–2011 SAR Resident Fellows
August 2010
	Tour Thursday, August 19–Friday, August 20, 2010 Indian Market Tours Indian Arts Research Center IARC at SAR is offering special tours of its collection of Native American art before Indian Market weekend, August 19–20.
	Event Friday, August 13–Sunday, August 15, 2010 Discover the Living Spirit of Native Art Over three magical days in Santa Fe, explore SAR's multi-dimensional relationships with Native American art, artists, and communities.
	Exhibit Thursday, August 12–Friday, October 1, 2010 Freetown, Sierra Leone Photography by Julie Graber Photojournalists say that the most compelling pictures are of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, or extraordinary people doing ordinary things. Julie Graber’s 2003 images from Freetown, Sierra Leone do both.
	Field Trip Saturday, August 7, 2010, 8:00 am–2:00 pm The Mystery of Burnt Corn Pueblo and Petroglyph Hill This Trip is Sold Out Guided by Dr. James Snead
	Artist Talk Thursday, August 5, 2010, 5:30–7:30 pm Duane Slick: Artist Talk, Reception, and Open Studio 2010 Ronald and Susan Dubin Native Artist Fellow Duane Slick is a multi-media artist working in painting, printmaking, sculpture, books, lectures, and story-telling performances...
	Colloquium Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Vital Signs and Möbius Time: Frayed Ordinaries at Walter Reed Zoë H. Wool, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto and Bunting Summer Scholar
July 2010
	Colloquium Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Making Space/Making Race: Tribal Anthropology and the Colonial Frontier in 19th Century British India Poornima L. Paidipaty, Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Society of Fellows, University of Chicago, and Adams Summer Scholar
	Book Event Sunday, July 25, 2010, 3:00–5:00 pm Talk and Book Signing for In The Places of The Spirits David Grant Noble SAR Press is pleased to announce the publication of a stunning new book by renowned photographer and writer David Grant Noble.
	Field Trip Friday, July 23, 2010, 8:45 am–2:45 pm Native Artists Studio Tour Guided by the Gaussoin family, Randy Chitto, and Mateo Romero
	Book Event Thursday, July 22, 2010, 6:00–8:00 pm Talk and Book Signing for In The Places of The Spirits David Grant Noble SAR Press is pleased to announce the publication of a stunning new book by renowned photographer and writer David Grant Noble.
	Colloquium Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Culture’s Laboratory: Scientific Imagination, Andean Peasants, and the Making of the Cornell-Peru Project at Vicos Jason C. Pribilsky, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Whitman College, and Adams Summer Scholar
	Colloquium Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm The Fence and the River: Border Enforcement in the Age of National Security Cecilia Ballí, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, and Bunting Summer Scholar
	Colloquium Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Childhood, Materiality, and Identity in the Contested Landscapes of Southern Colorado Minette C. Church, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and Cotsen Summer Scholar
June 2010
	Colloquium Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Literacy, Perfectibility, and Temporality: Reconciling Pueblo Imagined Pasts and Futures Erin Debenport, ACLS/Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles, and Smeall Summer Scholar
	Field Trip Friday, June 25, 2010, 7:30 am–5:00 pm History and Folklore of the Rio Puerco Valley Guided by Nasario Garcia and Tom Windes The austere Rio Puerco Valley has attracted a continuum of inhabitants, from Ancestral Puebloans to Navajos to Hispanic farmers....
	Colloquium Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Chitimacha Indian Basketmakers and their Patrons: 1890-1940 Daniel H. Usner, Jr., Professor, Department of History, Vanderbilt University, and Bunting Summer Scholar
	Colloquium Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Katherine Dunham and the Anthropology of Dance Advanced Seminar Chair Elizabeth Chin, Professor, Critical Theory and Social Justice, Occidental College
May 2010
	Colloquium Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Break and Enter: Indigenous Research in the Houses of History Sherry Farrell Racette, Associate Professor, Department of Native Studies, University of Manitoba, and Anne Ray Resident Scholar
	Book Event Monday, May 24, 2010, 6:00–7:00 pm The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick A benefit for SAR, sponsored by Garcia Street Books Nathaniel Philbrick, the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author, takes on the ultimate mythic story of the American West: The Battle of the Little Bighorn.
	Field Trip Thursday, May 20–Saturday, May 22, 2010 Chacoan Outliers and Navajo Weavers of Northwestern New Mexico Guided by Tom Windes and John Kantner with an overnight in Gallup Archaeologists Tom Windes and John Kantner will take us on a journey through the backroads of northwestern New Mexico, visiting several outlying great houses....
	Colloquium Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Indigenous Peoples and Salmon in the Northern Pacific Advanced Seminar Co-chairs Benedict J. Colombi, Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies Program, University of Arizona, and James F. Brooks, President, SAR
	Speaker Series Thursday, May 13, 2010, 5:30–6:30 pm A Visit to Red Indian Lake in the Summer of 2009: Mi’kmaq and Where’s the Beothuk? A Mi’kmaq Curator Tracks Frank G. Speck’s Visit to Red Indian Lake in 1914 Stephen Augustine, Curator of Eastern Maritime Ethnology, Canadian Museum of Civilization; Mi'kmaq hereditary chief
	Artist Talk Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 5:30–7:00 pm Marla Allison: Artist Talk, Reception, and Open Studio 2010 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Artist Fellow Marla will be speaking about her work leading up to and during her tenure at SAR. The lecture will be followed by a visit to the Dubin Studio to view her newly created works.
	Colloquium Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm The Texture of Death: Three Stories from a Mysterious Epidemic Charles L. Briggs, Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor of Folklore and Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of California–Berkeley, and Weatherhead Resident Scholar; and Clara Mantini-Briggs, Visiting Professor, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California–San Diego, and SAR Visiting Research Associate
	Colloquium Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Rethinking Race and Science: Biology, Genes, and Culture Advanced Seminar Chair John Hartigan, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas–Austin
April 2010
	Speaker Series Friday, April 30, 2010, 5:30–6:30 pm Opening the Doors: Putting the National Museum of the American Indian Collections Online Ann McMullen, Ph.D., Curator and Head of Collections Research and Documentation, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
	Field Trip Friday, April 30–Saturday, May 1, 2010 The Salinas Pueblos: One Thousand Years of Village Life in Central New Mexico Guided by Alison Rautman with an overnight in Mountainair East of the rugged Manzano Mountains are the remains of three large pueblos and their 17th-century Spanish Colonial missions. Explore these with archaeologist Alison Rautman....
	Lecture Thursday, April 29, 2010, 6:30–7:30 pm The Evolution of Monetary Irrationality Laurie Santos (Yale University) Monkeys make “human” economic errors, and some human financial errors are evolutionarily ancient.
	Colloquium Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Presentations by 2009–2010 IARC Interns Dominic J. Henry (Diné), Anne Ray Native Intern and M.A. Candidate, Museum Studies, University of Oklahoma and Kendall Tallmadge (Ho-Chunk), Harvey W. Branigar Jr. Native Intern and Museum Consultant, Ho-Chunk Nation
	Colloquium Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Illness, Death, and Loss in New England, 1840–1916: The Role of Tuberculosis Alan C. Swedlund, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and External Professor, Santa Fe Institute
	Colloquium Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Splendor in the Jungle: The Rise and Fall of Ankor Wat Douglas W. Schwartz, Senior Scholar and President Emeritus, School for Advanced Research
	Sparks Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 3:00–4:00 pm The Disappearing Colorado: Water Crisis in the West V. B. Price What are the potential consequences for urban life in the American West if drought becomes chronic and the reservoirs of the Colorado and Rio Grande Rivers run dry?
	Event Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 4:00–6:00 pm Membership Appreciation “Open House” Special event for Members only
	Colloquium Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Standing in the Doorway: Teachings and Stories of the Turtle Island Liars’ Club Christopher B. Teuton, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Denver, and Katrin H. Lamon Resident Scholar
March 2010
	Colloquium Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm The Ethnography of a Bus Ride in Northern Coastal Ecuador James A. Trostle, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Trinity College, Hartford, and Weatherhead Resident Scholar
	Symposium Saturday, March 27, 2010, 1:00–5:00 pm Beneath the City Different: The Archaeology of Santa Fe (Redux) Sponsored by SAR and Friends of Archaeology Seven archaeologists will give presentations on different periods of Santa Fe’s history, from ancient to modern times during an afternoon series of talks...
	Colloquium Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm The Difference Kinship Makes: Rethinking the Ideologies of Modernity Advanced Seminar Co-Chairs Susan McKinnon, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, and Fenella Cannell, Reader, Department of Social Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science
	Field Trip Friday, March 19, 2010, 7:30 am–5:00 pm Journey through Time Guided by Linda Cordell and Felipe Ortega The journey through time will take us across north-central New Mexico from El Rito to La Madera and on to Tres Piedras....
	Lecture Thursday, March 18, 2010, 6:30–7:30 pm Buddhist Economics: An Oxymoron? Donald Swearer (Harvard University) …Buddhism is as concerned with worldly pursuits and aspirations as with otherworldly mysticism.
	Speaker Series Thursday, March 18, 2010, 5:30–6:30 pm Indigenous Curation and Museum Ethics in the Post-Colonial Era Christina Kreps, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Director of Museum Studies; Director, University of Denver Museum of Anthropology
	Colloquium Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Claiming Rosa Parks: Debates over Health and Human Rights in Latin America Lynn M. Morgan, Mary E. Woolley Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College, and Weatherhead Resident Scholar
	Colloquium Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra Steven Feld, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Music, University of New Mexico
	Sparks Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 3:00–4:00 pm Cylinder Jars and Chocolate in Chaco Canyon Patricia Crown Archaeologist Patricia Crown will discuss what the discovery of chocolate at Chaco Canyon means for our understanding of interactions between the Southwest and Mesoamerica.
	Exhibit Friday, March 5–Tuesday, June 1, 2010 Celebrate! The Parties of El Delirio: Featuring Photos from the Santa Fe Estate of Elizabeth and Martha White, 1926–1950 Research and captions by Nancy Owen Lewis, Director of Scholar Programs El Delirio or “the madness” as they called it, became the setting for lavish dinners, concerts, poetry readings, pool parties, plays, and masquerade balls....as revealed in these photos of “The Parties of El Delirio.”
February 2010
	Speaker Series Thursday, February 25, 2010, 5:30–6:30 pm Bringing Heritage Home: Electronic Access, Digital Repatriation, and the Sharing of Knowledges about Great Lakes Indigenous Traditions Ruth Phillips, Ph.D., Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture, Professor of Art History, Carleton University
	Lecture Thursday, February 18, 2010, 6:30–7:30 pm The Circulation of Wealth in Bronze Age China Lothar von Falkenhausen (University of California–Los Angeles) … archaeological evidence offers the best hope for understanding the rise of imperial states in China and Central Eurasia during the late first millennium B.C.
	Colloquium Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm One Revolt, Two Revolts, Three Revolts, More? Cycles of Religious Evangelism and Popular Response in the Puebloan Southwest James F. Brooks, President, School for Advanced Research
	Colloquium Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm History and Memories of Colonialism in A.C. Jordan’s Novel, “The Wrath of the Ancestors” Nicholas M. Creary, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ohio University
	Sparks Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 3:00–4:00 pm Preserving Santa Fe’s Historic Homes Elaine Bergman Elaine Bergman, Executive Director of the Historic Santa Fe Foundation, will take us on a virtual tour of Santa Fe’s historic homes.
	Speaker Series Friday, February 5, 2010, 5:30–6:30 pm Native American Art History in the 21st Century: In Theory, In Practice W. Jackson Rushing, III, Ph.D., Professor of Art History, University of Oklahoma
	Colloquium Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Anthropology, Human Capabilities, and Occupational Justice Gelya Frank, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Division of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, School of Dentistry, University of Southern California
January 2010
	Colloquium Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm Poetry Reading Malena Mörling, Associate Professor, Department of Creative Writing, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and SAR Visiting Research Associate
	Colloquium Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 12:00–1:00 pm The Creation of Pueblo Art Pottery and the Santa Fe Indian Market Bruce Bernstein, Executive Director, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts
	Sparks Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 3:00–4:00 pm Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses Dan Flores Historian Dan Flores illuminates a fascinating event that occurred after the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, when horses from the Southwest escaped into the Southern Plains.
December 2009
	Speaker Series Friday, December 11, 2009, 5:30–6:30 pm “They Are Digging Up Our Ancestors”: Archaeology in an Age of Accountability Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Ph.D., Curator of Anthropology & NAGPRA Officer, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
	Colloquium Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Homeschooling the Enchanted Child: Ambivalent Attachments in the Domestic Southwest Rebecca A. Allahyari, SAR Research Associate
	Sparks Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 3:00–4:00 pm Los Arabes de Nuevo México [Cancelled] Monika Ghattas Beginning in the late 1880s, Syrian-Lebanese immigrants began arriving in the New Mexico territory, looking for economic opportunities.
November 2009
	Speaker Series Friday, November 20, 2009, 5:30–6:30 pm Within and Outside: The American Indian Presence at the Venice Biennale, 1999–2009 Nancy Mithlo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Art History and American Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
	Panel Thursday, November 19, 2009, 2:00–4:00 pm Essential Aesthetics: An Exploration of Contemporary Indigenous Art and Identity Panel Discussion with Mario Caro, Robert Jahnke, Gerald McMaster, Nancy Mithlo, Nora Naranjo Morse, and Mina Sakai
	Artist Talk Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 5:30–7:00 pm Adrian Wall: Artist Talk, Reception, and Open Studio 2009 Rollin and Mary Ella King Native Artist Fellow
	Colloquium Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Chronic Cultural Impossibility: A Physician’s Reflections on How an Anthropological Concept is Used in Legitimizing Injustice Clara Mantini-Briggs, Visiting Professor, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, San Diego; Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley; and SAR Visiting Research Associate
	Colloquium Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars’ Club: Narrative, Community, and Cultural Revival Christopher B. Teuton, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Denver, and Katrin H. Lamon Resident Scholar
	Sparks Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 3:00–4:00 pm Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby Craig Varjabedian In New Mexico, the Spanish phrase “La Querencia” is an endearing term for place of the heart. “La Querencia” is personified in the visual imagery of Ghost Ranch....
	Symposium Saturday, November 7, 2009, 1:00–5:00 pm Beneath the City Different: The Archaeology of Santa Fe Sponsored by SAR and Friends of Archaeology Seven archaeologists will give presentations on different periods of Santa Fe’s history, from ancient to modern times during an afternoon series of talks...
	Lecture Thursday, November 5, 2009, 6:30–7:30 pm Turquoise, Trumpets, and Tchamahias: The Wealth of Chaco Canyon John Kantner (School for Advanced Research) … what we know about Chacoan notions of wealth and value and how these concepts changed over time.
	Colloquium Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Do Roads Lead to Wellness? Development and Disease in Coastal Ecuador James A. Trostle, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Trinity College, Hartford, and Weatherhead Resident Scholar
October 2009
	Speaker Series Thursday, October 29, 2009, 5:30–6:30 pm Indians in Space: Curating Media Art by Indigenous Artists Steven Loft, Aboriginal Curator-in-Residence, National Gallery of Canada; Former Director, Urban Shaman Gallery
	Colloquium Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Reproductive Rights and Wrongs in Contemporary Latin America Lynn M. Morgan, Mary E. Woolley Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College, and Weatherhead Resident Scholar
	Lecture Thursday, October 15, 2009, 6:30–7:30 pm X Marks the Spot…Or Does It? Fact and Fiction in the Study of Piracy Russell Skowronek (University of Texas–Pan American) … popular, romanticized ideas of pirates and piracy are compared to evidence uncovered by archaeologists.
	Field Trip Thursday, October 15–Saturday, October 17, 2009 Ancestral Navajo: Rock Art & Pueblitos de Dinétah Guided by Larry Baker and Alex Mitchell Scattered in the ancestral Navajo homeland are small defensive sites, “Pueblitos,” that the Navajos constructed in the 18th century to protect themselves from slaving raids....
	Colloquium Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm On Vampire Bats and a Mysterious Epidemic: Indigenous Leadership, Medicine, Anthropology, and Death in the Rainforest Charles L. Briggs, Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor of Folklore and Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, and Weatherhead Resident Scholar, and Clara Mantini-Briggs, Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, and SAR Visiting Research Associate
	Sparks Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 3:00–4:00 pm Buried Treasures: Famous and Unusual Gravesites in New Mexico History Richard Melzer New Mexico history is filled with noteworthy men, women, and children. Sadly, few of these famous New Mexicans are honored with monuments....
	Colloquium Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Coat Stories: Reclaiming Knowledge and Narratives from Material Culture Sherry Farrell Racette, Associate Professor, Department of Native Studies and Women & Gender Studies, University of Manitoba, and Anne Ray Resident Scholar
	Field Trip Saturday, October 3, 2009, 7:30 am–4:30 pm Awanyu Guardians of White Rock Canyon Guided by Robert “Bob” Powers and Rory Gauthier White Rock Canyon is one of the jewels of the Pajarito Plateau, with magnificent views, beautiful rock art, and farming sites hidden in the canyon bottom.
September 2009
	Colloquium Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Toward a Global Human History: Agency and the Explanation of Long-Term Change Advanced Seminar Co-Chairs John E. Robb, Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University, and Timothy Pauketat, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois
	Speaker Series Thursday, September 24, 2009, 5:30–6:30 pm Tamástslikt: A Tribal Museum Turning History Over and Turning Lives Around Bobbie Conner, Director, Tamástslikt Cultural Institute
	Colloquium Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm The Origins of the Great Pueblos: New Advances from Research at Arroyo Hondo Pueblo Douglas W. Schwartz, Senior Scholar and President Emeritus, School for Advanced Research
	Colloquium Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Clash of Titans: The Inca Emperor Atahualpa and the Spanish Conquistador Pizarro Charles Stanish, Director, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, and SAR Visiting Research Associate
	Field Trip Friday, September 11, 2009, 8:30 am–3:00 pm The Historic Los Luceros Hacienda Guided by Lea Armstrong and Marie Markenstein The historic 140-acre property is nestled along the Rio Grande and was home to Mary Cabot Wheelwright, founder of the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian.
	Colloquium Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Introductory Presentations 2009–2010 SAR Resident Fellows
	Sparks Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 3:00–4:00 pm The Santa Fe Ring: Gilded Age Politics in Old New Mexico David L. Caffey If you think New Mexico politics is rough-and-tumble today, consider the latter half of the 19th century, when the “Santa Fe Ring” held sway....
	Field Trip Friday, September 4, 2009, 8:30 am–3:30 pm The Art of Zia Pueblo Guided by Ulysses Reid Join us on a special field trip to honor Zia potter Ulysses Reid, this summer’s “Artist in Residence” at the Indian Arts Research Center.
August 2009
	Tour Wednesday, August 19–Friday, August 21, 2009 Indian Market Tours Indian Arts Research Center IARC at the School for Advanced Research is offering special tours of its collection of Native American art before Indian Market weekend, Aug. 19–21.
	Colloquium Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Nature, Science, and Religion: Intersections Shaping Society and the Environment Advanced Seminar Chair Catherine M. Tucker, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University
	Field Trip Saturday, August 8, 2009, 8:00 am–3:00 pm Native Foods: Culinary Field Trip and Farm Tour Chef Lois Ellen Frank; Clayton Brascoupe, Director of the Traditional Native American Farmers Association; and Eremita and Margaret Campos’s family farm Award-winning chef Lois Ellen Frank will be our guide as we learn about the region’s history and the revitalization of traditional Native seeds, foods, and farming methods.
	Artist Talk Thursday, August 6, 2009, 5:30–7:00 pm Ulysses Reid: Artist Talk, Reception, and Open Studio 2009 Ronald and Susan Dubin Native Artist Fellow
	Colloquium Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Buddha and the Bees: Recursive Innovations and Community Self-Fashioning among Sri Lankan Potters Deborah Winslow, Cultural Anthropology Program Director and Ecology of Infectious Disease Program Co-Director, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, National Science Foundation; SAR Visiting Research Associate
July 2009
	Colloquium Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm After the Fall: Iron Age Political and Economic Dynamics in Central Anatolia Peter Grave, Convenor, Department of Archaeology and Paleoanthropology, University of New England, and Lisa Kealhofer, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Santa Clara University; Cotsen Summer Scholar
	Field Trip Saturday, July 25, 2009, 7:00 am–2:30 pm Archaic and Historic Rock Art in the Rio Grande Gorge Guided by Severin Fowles Archaeologist and Barnard College professor Severin Fowles is in his third summer of investigating the Archaic and historic sites of the Rio Grande Gorge, a formidable place often overlooked by other Southwest archaeologists, but one that was prehistorically used by the Jicarilla Apache, Utes, Comanche, and Picuris and Taos Pueblos.
	Colloquium Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Navigating Archives and Special Collections Libraries for Native American Research Ann Massmann, Associate Professor, Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico; Bunting Summer Scholar
	Book Event Sunday, July 19, 2009, 2:00–4:00 pm Lecture and Book Signing for “A History of the Ancient Southwest” Stephen H. Lekson Please join us for a lecture and book signing at the New Mexico History Museum with Stephen H. Lekson, author of the new book, A History of the Ancient Southwest.
	Colloquium Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm When Researchers Meet the Researched: Interpretations of Proper Exchange in International AIDS Research in Rural Malawi Crystal Biruk, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania; Bunting Summer Scholar
	Field Trip Saturday, July 11, 2009, 8:00 am–2:00 pm Santo Domingo Pottery Firing: Santo Domingo Pueblo Santo Domingo potter Robert Tenorio Join in the fun by participating in a traditional pottery-making demonstration. Santo Domingo potter Robert Tenorio enjoys teaching his knowledge of Puebloan pottery by involving people in the process of creation.
	Colloquium Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Aleš Hrdlička and the Anthropology of the Unwanted J. Andrew Darling, Director, Cultural Resource Management Program, Gila River Indian Community; Adams Summer Scholar
	Field Trip Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 10:00–11:00 am Santo Domingo Pottery Firing: Preview of Santo Domingo Pottery at the Indian Arts Research Center Santo Domingo potter Robert Tenorio As a preview to the July 11th trip, Robert Tenorio will meet on Tuesday with participants in the Indian Arts Research Center at SAR to share his knowledge of Santo Domingo pottery.
	Colloquium Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Quelling Anguish: A Political Economy of Emotions in the Everyday Life of Youth Heads of Household in Kigali, Rwanda Maggie Zraly, NSF International Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, National University of Rwanda; Bunting Summer Scholar
June 2009
	Colloquium Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm The Spatio-temporal Effects of Enclosing Palestine Julie Peteet, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Louisville; Bunting Summer Scholar
	Field Trip Friday, June 12, 2009, 8:00 am–2:00 pm Exploring Puye Cliff Dwellings: A Family Trip Guided by members of Santa Clara This historic landmark in the beautiful Santa Clara Canyon was home to over 1,500 Pueblo Indians, the ancestors of the Tewa people of Santa Clara Pueblo.
May 2009
	Symposium Thursday, May 28, 2009, 10:00 am–4:00 pm Native Collections and Pesticides: Testing, Analysis, and Mediation Speakers: Nancy Odegaard, PhD, Cheryl Podsiki, and Özge Gençay Üstün Conservators from institutions with large Native American collections will present on their work and experiences detecting and dealing with pesticides on collection items.
	Colloquium Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Ancient Religion from the Ground Up Timothy R. Pauketat, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, and Weatherhead Resident Scholar
	Lecture Thursday, May 14, 2009, 7:00–8:00 pm The Early History of Chocolate John Henderson, Mayan Archaeologist Dr. Henderson’s rich talk takes a careful look at archaeological evidence that indicates chocolate was an essential component of all important ceremonial and social occasions among the Aztecs and their Mesoamerican neighbors.
	Artist Talk Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 5:30–7:00 pm Pat Courtney Gold: Artist Talk, Reception, and Open Studio 2009 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Artist Fellow
	Colloquium Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm From Piltdown Man to Hobbit: Of Missing Links and Paleopolitics Dean Falk, Hale G. Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, and SAR Resident Fellow
	Colloquium Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Markets and Moralities Advanced Seminar Co-Chairs: Edward F. Fischer, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, and Peter Benson, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Washington University
April 2009
	Colloquium Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Intention, Enchantment, and the Aesthetics of Renewal in the Art of the Prehistoric Southwest Marit Munson, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Trent University, and SAR Visiting Research Associate
	Colloquium Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Redefining the “Normal” in Women’s Health: The View from Evolutionary Medicine Wenda Trevathan, Regents Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, New Mexico State University, and SAR Resident Fellow
	Colloquium Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 12:00–1:00 pm Violence in the Digital Age: Youth and Spectacular Performance in the Sierra Leone and Liberia Wars Daniel J. Hoffman, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, and Weatherhead Resident Scholar
August 2008
	Symposium Thursday, August 21–Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form Anthropologists and corporate practitioners from a wide range of institutions and career paths both within and beyond the academy came together at SAR to examine how corporations are increasingly taking on roles typically associated with nation-states, shaping governance and managing daily life.

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