2019 - 2020 Lecture Series
All lectures are free and open to the public. Lectures are held in Fuller Lodge at 7 p.m.
Tuesday, September 10: Nancy Owen Lewis, Surviving Edgar Lee Hewett: His Battles and Enduring Legacy
Tuesday, October 8: Cary Skidmore, Screening of La Tierra Quemada (The Burning Ground)
Tuesday, November 12: Jeffrey Boutwell, Joseph Rotblat: A Singular Figure in 20th Century Nuclear Politics
Tuesday, January 14: Martin Pfeiffer, Nuclear Weapons are a Southwestern Thing: Los Alamos and Sandia Magazine Advertisements, 1956–1964
Tuesday, February 11: J. J. Mortensen and Kit Ruminer, Duchess Castle
Tuesday, March 10: Vangie Sena, Maria Josefa Jaramillo Carson (Chautauqua Performance)
Tuesday, April 14: Matthew Shindell, The Life and Science of Harold C. Urey: A Biographical Examination of 20th Century Science
Tuesday, May 12: Craig Martin, Recovering from Wildfire: A Twenty-Year Perspective of the Cerro Grande Fire
Full descriptions of all lectures can be found on our Events Page.
The 2019 - 2020 Lecture Series is generously sponsored by
If you would like to donate to support free programs, like these, please donate today or contact us below.
Tuesday, September 10: Nancy Owen Lewis, Surviving Edgar Lee Hewett: His Battles and Enduring Legacy
Tuesday, October 8: Cary Skidmore, Screening of La Tierra Quemada (The Burning Ground)
Tuesday, November 12: Jeffrey Boutwell, Joseph Rotblat: A Singular Figure in 20th Century Nuclear Politics
Tuesday, January 14: Martin Pfeiffer, Nuclear Weapons are a Southwestern Thing: Los Alamos and Sandia Magazine Advertisements, 1956–1964
Tuesday, February 11: J. J. Mortensen and Kit Ruminer, Duchess Castle
Tuesday, March 10: Vangie Sena, Maria Josefa Jaramillo Carson (Chautauqua Performance)
Tuesday, April 14: Matthew Shindell, The Life and Science of Harold C. Urey: A Biographical Examination of 20th Century Science
Tuesday, May 12: Craig Martin, Recovering from Wildfire: A Twenty-Year Perspective of the Cerro Grande Fire
Full descriptions of all lectures can be found on our Events Page.
The 2019 - 2020 Lecture Series is generously sponsored by
If you would like to donate to support free programs, like these, please donate today or contact us below.
Past Lectures
October 9, 2018: Ned O’Malia, The Spirit of Place: Sacred Northern New Mexico
September 18, 2018: Andrew Wulf, Cold War Cultural Diplomacy
September 12, 2017: Melissa Bingman - Prep School Cowboys
October 12, 2017: Jennet Conant - Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist
November 14, 2017: Sharon Snyder - How Los Alamos Became a Ranch School: A Homesteader’s Farmhouse, a Few Sheds, and a Muddy Puddle of Water
January 9, 2018: Craig Allen - Forest and Fire History of the Jemez
February 13, 2018: Gerry & Georgia Strickfaden - A History of Land Transfers on the Pajarito Plateau
March 13, 2018: Thomas Romero - Northern Río Grande National Heritage Area:
Sustaining Culture and Traditions
Sustaining Culture and Traditions
April 10, 2018: Lesley Poling-Kempes - Ladies of the Canyon
May 8, 2018: Judy Machen - A Tale of Two Homesteaders: Contrasts between the Harold Brook and Victor Romero Homesteads
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