Climate Conversations – Food Sovereignty in the Desert: Reclaiming Traditional O’odham Foodways
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Traditional foodways of the Tohono O’odham are inextricably linked to their ancestral lands in the Sonoran Desert. O’odham knowledge of hunting, farming, and harvesting wild foods has evolved over generations […]
Dia de los Muertos Storytelling with Zarco Guerrero
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Dia de Los Muertos is a highly celebrated and significant holiday held throughout Mexico, Latin America, and the Southwest. It is a day when homage is paid with prayers, offerings […]
100 Years Grand – The Story of Arizona Highways Magazine with Win Holden
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April 2025 will mark Arizona Highways magazine’s 100th birthday. How did a brochure produced by the Arizona Highway Department become one of the most revered travel publications in the world? […]
Disruption, Subversion, & Agency: A Brief History of Zines with Rosemarie Dombrowski
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This presentation explores the origins of zine culture – self-published, hand-bound, small- circulation publications that gave voice to historically marginalized populations – beginning with the fascicles of Emily Dickinson and […]
Arizona Water Use from Prehistory to the Present with Jim Turner
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This presentation covers humankind’s water use and food supply interactions with Arizona’s ecology from Clovis culture hunter-gatherers to prehistoric irrigation canals, contemporary Hopi and Tohono O’odham dry farming, and present-day […]
Rivers of Dreams: Songs and Stories of Arizona’s Waterways with Jay Cravath
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The Colorado, the Gila, the Salt, the Verde, the Hassayampa, the Santa Cruz: Arizona’s rivers were lush green ribbons of life flowing through a desert landscape. They became sustaining paths […]
Arizona Water Use from Prehistory to Present with Jim Turner
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This presentation covers humankind’s water use and food supply interactions with Arizona’s ecology from Clovis culture hunter-gatherers to prehistoric irrigation canals, contemporary Hopi and Tohono O’odham dry farming, and present-day […]
Growing in the Desert: The History and Culture of the Tohono O’odham with Jacelle Ramon-Saubera
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Many Arizonans call the Sonoran Desert and its striking landscapes home. Long before our urban centers and city lights lit up the dark desert skies, the Tohono O’odham were cultivating […]
Being Human in the Anthropocene with Matthew Goodwin
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The Anthropocene is the name scientists have proposed for the geological epoch that we are currently in, when humans have become a significant driving force shaping Earth’s climate, ecosystems, and […]
Arizona’s Vintage Signs: Lighting the Future with Marshall Shore
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Arizona has become a hotbed of preserving vintage signage and neon. No wonder, with the rise of Arizona and automobile travel in the 40s, 50s and 60s. Thousands of people […]