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*The Andrew Norman Foundation Lecture Series*
Established in 1988 by an endowment from the Andrew Norman Foundation, this lecture series brings noted scholars to campus to enhance and promote the values and interests of the Southwest Studies program. The Andrew Norman Guest Lecturer is chosen by the Hulbert Center and the Southwest Studies Faculty Advisory Committee. In addition to presenting a major lecture, the recipient usually presents informally at an Aficionados luncheon, visits a class in his or her area of expertise, and meets informally with faculty and students. The series brings to campus leaders in the Southwest, men and women in the forefront of politics, education, and the arts.
*Gary Nabhan Named 2006 Norman Lecturer*
Gary Paul Nabhan, inaugural director of Northern Arizona University’s Center for Sustainable Environments has been selected as the 2006 Norman lecturer. For his vast array of collaborative and cross cultural accomplishments, Dr. Nabhan has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Conservation Biology. He is the author of over 200 articles and essays in many scientific and professional publications, such as nature, Applied Geography, Conservation Biology, Agriculture and Human Values, Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and many others, too numerous to mention. He has also written several books, most recently, “Why Some Like It hot: Food, Genes and Cultural Diversity,” 2004, Island Press and “Renewing America’s Food Traditions” (with Ashley Rood), NAU/CSE with Slow Food USA.
Dr. Nabhan will present two lectures on February 28^th,2007. The first will be at noon during the Aficionados Luncheon. He will be discussing “Why Some Like It Hot: Chiles, Genes and Southwest Culture.” Later that evening he will give the Norman Lecture,” Renewing the Food Traditions of Chile Pepper Nation,” in the Gates Common Room, in Palmer Hall at 7:00 p.m. Do your ears burn when you eat hot chilies or your face flush hot when you imbibe an adult beverage? One-third of the world’s population is sensitive to certain foods due to their genes’ interaction with them. Dr. Nabhan will take us on a journey that will reevaluate these sensitivities, once misunderstood as dietary genetic disorders, revealing that they are actually adaptations that our ancestors evolved in response to dietary choices and diseases they faced in particular landscapes. Put Slow Food, the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, Native American farmers, Chef’s Collaborative, and many others in a room together and what do you have? You have RAFT, or Renewing America’s Food Traditions, a coalition of organizations with long-standing interests in resurrecting and preserving the diversity of America’s food heritages. While globalization of our planetary food resources can be a good thing, it brought coffee and olive oil to the US, after all, it often has the unfortunate side effect of creating homogeneity in available foodstuffs. People become accustomed to the limited selection widely available, locally available varieties lose their market share as both demand drops and interest in cultivating for niche markets gets lost in producing commercially viable species. The shipping industry and the distributors dictate which these are, as durability becomes more important than dining pleasure. Another way that traditional foods become endangered is exploitation of the habitat. As we continue to carve our landscapes into smaller pieces, we are contributing to the genetic erosion of not only our cultivated species, but the wild species, too, are losing diversity. Dr Nabhan conducts workshops helping native peoples catalog both their cultivated and wild species available in their particular landscape, as well as creating lateral networking systems for seed sharing within cultures. The pleasure derived from our “comfort” foods, the foods of our childhoods and cultural celebrations is deeply related to the intersection of cultural diversity and biodiversity. Food and food-themes are interwoven in every society, and not simply in the kitchen. If we had not had strong fishing traditions in the 19^th and 20^th centuries, would Melville have given us Captain Ahab, or Steinbeck illustrate Cannery Row?
The annual Norman Lecture is supported by an endowment from the Andrew Norman Foundation, which promotes programs in education and public affairs. The endowment enables us to bring to campus a distinguished scholar, artist, or political leader whose work focuses on the American Southwest. The Norman Lecture is free and open to the public.

The Andrew Norman Guest Lecturer Series


1988	Frank Waters	"Changes in the Southwest"
1990	Paula Gunn Allen	"Women's Spiritual Tradition: A Native American Example"
1991	Rudolfo Anaya	"Saving our Culture: Kookooee Story"
1992	Patricia Nelson-Limerick	"The Re-envisioning of the Am. West"
1993	David Carrasco	"From Excavation to Exhibition: The Making of 'Axtec: The World of Moctezuma"'
1994	David Weber	"The Transformation of North America: Hispanic Legacies"
1995	Charles Wilkinson	"Honoring the Work and Worldviews of the Continent's First Peoples: The Case of the Anasazi Sites of the Colorado Plateau"
1996	George J. Sánchez	"Race, Immigration and the Rise of Nativism in Late Twentieth Century America"
1997	James Welch	"Looking for Buffalo Bill"
1998	John Mack Faragher	"The Frontier and West in our Time"
1999	Linda Hogan	"Writing from the Land: A Reading and Conversation
2000	Euchee Indians	"A Celebration of Euchee Indian Culture and Tradition"
2001	Brent Michael Davids	"The Last of James Fenimore Cooper"
2002	Martha Sandweiss	"Print the Legend: Photography and the Nineteenth Century West"
2003	Ana Alonso	"The Discourse of Mestizaje and Gender on Both Sides of the Border: Vasconcelos and Anzaldúa"
2004	Demetria Martínez	"Writing in the Margins: Poetry and Other Explorations"
2005	James Brooks	“Mesa of Sorrows: Archaeology, Purity, and Prophetic Violence in the American Southwest”

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Established in 1988 by an endowment from the Andrew Norman Foundation, this lecture series brings noted scholars to campus to enhance and promote the values and interests of the Southwest Studies program. The Andrew Norman Guest Lecturer is chosen by the Hulbert Center and the Southwest Studies Faculty Advisory Committee. In addition to presenting a major lecture, the recipient usually presents informally at an Aficionados luncheon, visits a class in his or her area of expertise, and meets informally with faculty and students. The series brings to campus leaders in the Southwest, men and women in the forefront of politics, education, and the arts.

James F. Brooks Named 2005 Norman Lecturer

We are pleased to announce that James Brooks will deliver the 2005 Andrew Norman Lecture. Brooks is is the President of the School of American Research in Santa Fe and holds a Ph.D. in history. He is the author of Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands, which won the Bancroft Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the Frederick Jackson Turner Award. Brooks also edited Confounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America and co-edited Women & Gender in the American West.

Brooks will present two public lectures. The first lecture will take place on Wednesday, December 7, 2005 during an Aficionados Luncheon. This lecture, "Captives, Commodities, and Comanches: Indian Slavery in the Southwest," will examine the origins and legacies of the captive exchange economy throughout the Southwest Borderlands. He will deliver the Norman Lecture on Wednesday, December 9 at 7:00 p.m. in Gates Common room, Palmer Hall. The lecture, based on his forthcoming book, Mesa of Sorrows: Archaeology, Purity, and Prophetic Violence in the American Southwest, explores both the history and the modern valences of one of the most disquieting cases of internecine violence in North American history. In November of 1700, a coalition of warriors from several Hopi Indian villages in northern Arizona infiltrated the neighboring village of Awat'ovi and massacred most of the male inhabitants. Those they spared became, in some cases, founders of important ceremonial societies among their captors. Awat'ovi Pueblo itself, after several centuries of continuous occupation, lay abandoned and in ruins.

But Awat'ovi Pueblo would not be left to its ghosts. In its essence, "Awat'ovi" now serves as a lightening rod for questions of vital significance: Who should have the right to narrate the meaning of an event that many of the descendants of both its perpetrators and victims might rather forget? How do communities learn from the past, and what are the consequences of avoiding painful memories? What do archaeology, history, and ethnography have to add to various Hopi understandings of the catastrophe?

The annual Norman Lecture is supported by an endowment from the Andrew Norman Foundation, which promotes program in education and public affairs. The endowment, established in 1988, enables us to bring to campus a distinguished scholar, artist, or political leader whose work focuses on the American Southwest. The Norman Lecture is free and open to the public.