Spiro Archaeological Site: Travels on the Path of Souls — Ancient treasure recovered from a hollow chamber called the Spirit Lodge in eastern Oklahoma is the topic of a colorful talk by anthropologist F. Kent Reilly.
SAR Native Artist Fellows’ Work Accessioned into New York Museum — The School for Advanced Research congratulates 2015 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Artist Fellow Dawn Dark Mountain and 2016 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Artist Fellow Luanne Redeye on having their work accessioned into the New York State Museum collections.
Rock Art and Pueblo Shields: Symbolism and Change, a public talk by Polly Schaafsma — Presented in partnership with the Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project.
How the Languages We Speak Shape The Ways We Think: SAR Lecture Series Continues — To have a second language is to have a second soul, said Charlemagne around 800 AD. Each language has its own cognitive toolkit, says psychologist/linguist Lera Boroditsky.
SAR Announces 2017-2018 Native Artist Fellows: Loren Aragon, Warren Montoya, Jordan Craig.
Congratulations to Nicole Taylor, former Director of Scholar Programs at SAR, whose book has won two literary awards.
The winner of this year’s prestigious J.I. Staley Prize is Dr. Stefan Helmreich for his book Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas.
The rich cultural history and significance of rock art and petroglyphs in the Rio Grande Valley, and an exploration of those artifacts, make up two must-attend events sponsored by the School for Advanced Research (SAR) in April.
The School for Advanced Research is pleased to announce that Professor John Nieto-Phillips of Indiana University will present a lecture, Hispano Homeland or Fantasy Heritage? Spanish-American Identity and Ideology in New Mexico, 1890s-1940s, on April 27, 2017.
SAR will play a key role in the 77th annual conference of the Society for Applied Anthropology, which meets in Santa Fe from March 28-April 1. The conference begins on Tuesday, March 28, with Santa Fe/New Mexico Day.