Climate Conversations – Food Sovereignty in the Desert: Reclaiming Traditional O’odham Foodways
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
