Schedule Session 1
Workshop dates
This workshop will be run twice, with 36 participants each week. Session 1 is Monday, June 20 through Friday, June 24. Session 2 is Monday, July 18 through Friday, July 22.
Tucson and the Catalina Mountains
Daily Calendar
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MONDAY - ANCIENT ARIZONA
Life at Honey Bee Village circa 1000 CE. This Hohokam community thrived in the northwest Tucson Basin. Visualization: Robert B. Ciaccio. Source: archeologysouwhwest.com
Framing question: How do cultural concepts of space and place shape human habitation?
Morning site visit: University Ruin
Lecture: Hohokam settlement
Speaker: Drs. Paul and Suzanne Fish
Lunch and Introductions: ENR2 Building
Afternoon activity: Digital Storytelling workshop with Dan Duncan
Dinner: OYO
TUESDAY - INDIGENEITY AND MUSEUM CULTURE
Petroglyphs of the Tohono O’odham People
Framing question: How does positionality shape understanding of material culture?
Morning site visit : Amerind Museum
Lecture: Decolonizing museum practice: how to visit with new eyes
Speaker: Curator and Jennifer Jenkins
Lunch: OYO
Afternoon site visit: Behind the scenes tour of Arizona State Museum
Speaker: Michael Brescia
Dinner: OYO
WEDNESDAY - SPANISH COLONIAL INSURGENCE
Sketch drawn in 1869 by California emigrants who found Tubac fort abandoned. Source: southwestphotojournal.com
Framing question: How and why do concepts of space, place, and identity change when an insurgent group arrives in a landscape?
Morning site visit: Tucson Presidio, San Xavier del Bac
Lecture: Façade and interior of San Xavier del Bac
Resources: San Xavier del Bac in Art Historical Context, by Dr. Stacie Widdifield
Speakers: Stacie Widdifield, Jennifer Jenkins, Bob Vint
Second site visit: Tubac Presidio, Tumacacori National Historic Site
Lecture: History of missionizing in the Santa Cruz Valley
Speaker: Michael Brescia
Lunch: Tubac Golf Club on the 1789 Otero Land Grant and De Anza Trail
Dinner: OYO
THURSDAY - ENVIRONMENT AND WATER
Sahuaro National Park, Tucson
Framing question: How does environment determine human occupation and narrative?
Site visit morning: Tumamoc Hill Tour; Carnegie Desert Lab; Mission Garden
Lecture: Saguaro as barometer; Anglo effects on climate and landscape
Speakers; Robert Villa, David Yetman, Jeff Banister, Jesus Garcia
Lunch: Mission Garden, heritage foodways
Dinner: OYO
FRIDAY - HUMAN AND NONHUMAN MIGRATIONS
US-Mexico border along the San Rafael Valley, Arizona
Framing question: What are borders and how do they function?
Morning site visit:
Nogales, Arizona Border Wall with Robin Reineke
Patagonia, AZ, Borderlands Restoration Network with David Seibert
Lunch and Closing Reception: Sonoita, AZ