Brown Bag Lectures at the Chávez History Library

The Fray Angélico Chávez History Library presents a monthly lecture series called BRAINPOWER & BROWNBAGS. The lectures cover many aspects of New Mexico and Southwest history and culture. The lectures are free to the public and held in the Meem Community Room at 120 Washington Ave. (Enter through the New Mexico History Museum's Washington Ave). For current information, please see below.

For past lectures available for download, please scroll down.

Past Lectures

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The Chavez Library has started to video record lunch lectures in 2011. Videos are best viewed with Quicktime.

"Political Cartoons: New Mexico's Struggle for Statehood, 1850-1912"
Richard Melzer
11 January 2012

"Preservation in the Early 20th Century: Edgar L. Hewett and the Monumental Ruins of the Southwest"
Adam Fulton Johnson
21 December 2011.

Performance in conjunction with the exhibits Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible and Contemplative Landscape. Schola Cantorum, Santa Fe’s Gregorian Chant ensemble and the monks from Christ in the Desert Monastery
04 December 2011.

"Contemplative Landscape" exhibit lecture
Tony O'Brien and Christopher Merrill
23 October 2011.

"Mapping the New World for the Spanish Kings"
Barbara Mundy
18 October 2011.

"A Headdress of Pearls: Luxury Goods on the Camino Real"
Dedie Snow
21 September 2011.

The Santa Fe Symphony and Chorus: A Valuable Local Resource"
Steven Smith
17 August 2011.

Exploring Desert Stone: A Visual Portrayal of the 1859 Macomb Expedition..."
Steven K. Madsen
13 July 2011.

A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Southwest
William deBuys
16 June 2011.

Frontier Journalism: Oldest Paper in the Newsiest Place
Rob Dean, Santa Fe
18 May 2011.

Walter Noble Burns and the Myth of Billy the Kid
Mark Dworkin, Toronto Canada
07 April 2011.
To access this lecture, please contact Tomas Jaehn at tomas.jaehn@state.nm.us or call (505) 476.5090.

The Eyes of Texas Are Upon Us: The New Mexico Folk Play Los Tejanos and the History of Texan Invasions
Spencer Herrera, Las Cruces
23 March 2011.

Land, Legitimacy, and the Rise of Reies Lopez Tijerina
Jacobo Baca, Albuquerque
22 February 2011.

AUDIO RECORDINGS
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Willard Clark: Printer and Printmaker
David Farmer, Taos
16 June 2010

How The Wolves of Union County Transformed Ernest Thompson Seton (and America)
David Witt, Taos
20 May 2010.

Zebulon Montgomery Pike: Anglo Interloper, American Hero
Brian Murphy, Historian, Santa Fe
14 April 2010.

[Telling New Mexico Lecture] Exile from Paradise, Internment in New Mexico: My Grandfather's Journey
Gail Okawa, Professor of English, Youngstown State University, OH
28 March 2010.

The History of New Mexico's Territorial Penitentiary
Charlie Zdavesky, Historian, Albuquerque
17 March 2010.

On the Trail of the Kid and Pat Garrett
Mark Gardner, Historian and Author, Colorado Springs, CO
26 February 2010.

Alexander von Humboldt and Zebulon Pike and the Mapping of Northern New Spain
Dennis Reinhartz, Professor Emeritus - History, University of Texas at Arlington
17 November 2009.

Colliding Cultures: Athapaskans, Utes, and Europeans enter the Pueblo World
Jason Shapiro, Anthropologist, Santa Fe, N.M.
14 October 2009.

Kingsborough, Catherwood, and Maudslay: Rare Illustraed Works on Ancient Mesoamerica in the Chavez History Library
Khristaan Villela, NMHM Resident Scholar, Santa Fe, N.M.
16 September 2009.

New Mexico Volunteers and Militia During the Civil War
Jerry Thompson, Regents Professor, Texas A and M International University, Laredo
05 August 2009.
We apologize for the background noise in the podcast.

Cherokee Phoenix: Advent of a Newspaper
Frank Brannon, SpeakEasy Press, Asheville, N.C.
20 July 2009.
We apologize for the background noise in the podcast.

The Sister Danger: How the Dixon, New Mexico, Case Shaped American Conversations About church-State Separation
Katie Holscher, Assistant Professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA
09 June 2009.

Pueblo Indian Water Rights in New Mexico in the Spanish and Mexican Periods
Stan Hordes, Historian, Albuquerque
13 May 2009.

Fred Harvey Houses of the Southwest
Richard Melzer, Professor of History, University of New Mexico, Valencia
21 April 2009.

The Native American Curio Trade: Archival Sources, Ephemera, and Oral History
Jonathan Batkin, Director Wheelright Museum, Santa Fe
18 March 2009.

The Law and Billy the Kid
Johnny Boggs, Writer, Santa Fe
11 February 2009

Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War as Literature
Gale Coope, Writer, Sandia Park
22 January 2009
We experienced audio difficulties; here is the copyrighted transcript.

The Railroad's Impact on Land and Water Use in the Middle Rio Grande Valley, 1880-1930
Tessa Davidson, Davidson Law Firm, Corrales
15 October 2008

How to Misread a Western Poem [Bret Harte, Chinese immigration]
Gary Scharnhorst, Professor of English, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
15 September 2008

New Light on Mesa Verde Archaeology
David Noble, Historian, Santa Fe
6 August 2008

Nathan Augustus Monroe Dudley, 1825-1910: Rogue, Hero or Both? [Lincoln County War]
E. Donald Kaye, Historian, Santa Fe
28 July 2008.

For additional information, please contact Tomas Jaehn at tomas.jaehn@state.nm.us or call (505) 476.5090.