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 […]
Seeing the Desert with Gregory McNamee
Most Arizonans are not originally from Arizona, and most come from places that are far greener and milder of climate than our desert. For many of us, it takes a […]
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 […]
What is Civic Engagement? with Mathew Nevarez
Environmental sustainability, access to voting, public education—these are all civic issues affecting communities. What is a community? How can you participate in one? Join us for a lively discussion about […]
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 […]
The Selling of the Grand Canyon: The Santa Fe, Harvey Company and the El Tovar with John Mack
This presentation discusses the significance of the American Southwest in the early 20th century when national attention shifted to the canyons and deserts of the American Southwest. Although American scientists, […]
Multilingual Baseball: Language and Identity across Borders with Brendan O’Connor
Transnational baseball is a microcosm of globalizing societies around the world, inviting audiences to consider what we can learn from the bilingual understandings and misunderstandings that arise in everyday interactions. […]
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 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 […]
Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars with Gregory McNamee
Their names resound in Arizona history and pepper the of the state map, but few people know well the tangled history that surrounds the so-called “Apache Wars”, when fully half […]
