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Sylvia Haskvitz, Certified Trainer in Non Violent Communication, facilitator, author Monday, February 14, 2022, 2:30-4:00 pm, an ASA Webinar*   Every day we hear in the media how citizens in our country are divided in their social and political views

“ What devices can and cannot do”         Tom Muller, Coordinator of Clinical Education for Audiology, University of Arizona    Tuesday, February 9, 2022. 2:30-3:45 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*             (Note: extra time for questions)   While

Alex La Pierre, Founder of the new binational initiative, Borderlandia.  Monday, February 7, 2:30 to 3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*   Join Alex La Pierre, a popular speaker for ASA programs about border issues, as he explores characteristic elements of

Nancy Fitzgerald, Professor Emerita, College of St Scholastica Connie Wanek, Prizewinning Poet Wednesday, February 2, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*   Our resident poetry guru, Nancy Fitzgerald, and her good friend, award-winning Minnesota poet Connie Wanek, will present

Judith L. Bronstein, University Distinguished Professor/Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona Monday, January 31, 2:30 pm-3:30 pm, An ASA Zoom Webinar* Have you ever been stopped in your tracks in the Sonoran Desert by the sight of

Steven Kuhn, Professor of Anthropology, University of Arizona Wednesday, January 26, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar* Steven Kuhn writes: Genetic and fossil evidence has securely demonstrated that our species, Homo sapiens, evolved in Africa and subsequently dispersed across

A symposium with Clint Bell and Fiona de Young, Rincon Valley Fire District; Karen Ring, Pima Council on Aging; and Lee Itule-Klasen, Pima County Health Department Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 2:30-3:30, an ASA Zoom Webinar* Many preventable accidents occur right

Xubin Zeng, UA Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences Wednesday, January 12, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*   Although Arizona gets its water from aquifers and the Colorado River and has no snowpack, Xubin Zeng will explain to

Donald J. Behnke, PhD, Superintendent Emeritus, Southampton, NY, Public Schools Canceled – Monday, January 24, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*     Music is often a team effort – usually a collaboration between friends but sometimes even enemies. 

Mary Rigdon, Associate Director, Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, UA Lecture Canceled – Wednesday, January 5, 2022   The latest national US wage data shows women earn 83 cents for every dollar a man is paid, a statistic that

Jennifer Verdolin, Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, UA Monday, January 3, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*   What’s in a kiss when you’re a prairie dog?  For two decades Dr. Jennifer Verdolin has explored this

Manel Esteban, Academy Village Resident Canceled – Monday, January 17, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, The ASA Great Room, and ASA Zoom Webinar*     Our neighbor, Manel, will read from and talk about his autobiography, An Incredible Journey– From a Barcelona

 Parker Filer, Assistant Extension Agent in Horticulture with UA’s Pima County Cooperative Extension  Monday, January 10, 2022, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar* If you feel like you’ve just lost all your gardening skills since moving from a temperate climate

Norm Scott, Chair of the Sustainability Committee Tom Travis, President, Arizona Senior Academy Monday, December 13, 2021, 2:30 pm-4 pm, The ASA Great Room and a Zoom Webinar*     The two speakers will share a presentation and discussion based

This stunning documentary showcases the beauty and biodiversity of the Sonoran Desert without narration––a remarkable film that continues to be aired on national Public Television as a pledge drive program (2015-present). See it on the big screen in the ASA

Lorinda Boyer, Academy Village Resident Monday, December 20, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom presentation* Published in August, 2021, Lorinda Boyer’s candid and fearless memoir traces her life journey from a position of traditional Christian belief and practice, espousing a

Karyn Garvin, Owner, Garvin’s Divine Dog Training Wednesday, December 15, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar* Recent deliberations of the Academy Village Pet Policy Committee have focused strongly on issues of dog management, a fraught topic in many communities

Philipp Gutruf, Biomedical Engineer, UA Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 5:00 pm- 6:00pm, an ASA Webinar* Recent advances in materials and fabrication for physically soft electronics and miniaturization of wireless energy transfer have made it possible to create high-performance electronic and

Tom Travis, President of ASA, and Norm Scott, Chair of the AV Sustainability Committee Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 2:30 pm- 4:00 pm, a presentation for ASA Membership in the Great Room of the ASA Building and also via Zoom Webinar.

Mark Wolfson, MD Monday, November 29, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar* Following up our June lecture, “Venomous Creatures and Antivenoms” by Leslie Boyer, Emeritus Professor/Medical Director of the VIPER Institute at UA, Mark Wolfson, who pursues the study

Richard Nisbett, Theodore M Newcomb Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan Wednesday, November 17, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*   In his 2003 book, The Geography of Thought, social psychologist Richard Nisbett explores the differences between the

Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Astronomy, UA Monday, November 22, 2021, Note Special Time: 4:00-5:00 pm, a Zoom Webinar*   Chris Impey asks: “Are we alone in the universe? Astronomers have found 4000 exoplanets, ranging from hot Jupiters

Liz Pettersen, Executive Director, Arizona Land and Water Trust Monday, November 8, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, a Zoom Webinar*     Since 1978, the Arizona Land and Water Trust has been protecting southern Arizona’s working landscapes, farms and ranches, wildlife habitat

Norman R. Scott, Professor Emeritus Department of Biological & Environmental Engineering Cornell University Monday, November 15, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*   Professor Scott writes, “There is no area of human activity more basic to society than a

Thursday, November 4, at 2:00 p.m. an ASA Zoom Production.  This play is set in 2 Act New York City in the 1980s and revolves around a generational shift from traditional values of a fiercely loving Jewish grandmother on the

Janice Deardorff, singer and storyteller Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*   In this segment of her historical presentation series, You’re Part of the West, Janice Deardorff explores the life of Sarah Agnes Prine, an Arizona

Gabriel Ayala Wednesday, November 3, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar* Gabriel Ayala has been called “a one-man symphony of sound.” As a classical guitarist, he has performed memorable concerts at the Arizona Senior Academy, including a recent one

Eduardo Obregón Pagán, Bob Stump Endowed Professor of History at Arizona State University Monday, November 1, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar* We usually think of Chronic Traumatic Stress as occurring in our current world, where the term “PTSD”—Post-traumatic Stress

Cynthia Meier and Joseph McGrath, Co-Directors, The Rogue Theatre, Tucson Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*   This lecture is an inside look at Tucson’s amazing sixteen-year-old repertory theatre company, presented by its Co-Founders Cynthia Meier

Dr. Maha Baddar, Professor of English at Pima Community College  Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 2:30–3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*   To help us understand the religion of nearly one quarter of the world’s population (only Christianity has more adherents),

Gary Fenstermacher, President, Academy Services Corporation Monday, October 18, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*   “Get vaccinated.” “Wear a mask.” “Wash your hands.” “Stay six feet apart.” Four imperatives that we’ve heard again and again. There’s a fifth

Jeanne Missey Osgood, MA, Puppeteer Monday, October 25, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*      “Drama is never dead”—Emily Dickinson Following up her enchanting January 2020 Puppet Arts presentation for ASA, former Academy Village resident Jeanne Missey Osgood

Kathleen L. Prudic, Entomologist Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 2:30 to 3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*   Butterflies are among the most beautiful of nature’s creatures that we can easily observe. Who among us here in Southeast Arizona has not

 Jamie DeConcini, University of Arizona Department of Agricultural Education, Technology & Innovation  Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*       For one hour, be a new Wildcat and join Jamie Deconcini’s orientation class on UA’s

Jolanta Aritz, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Business Communication University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business. Monday, October 4, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*   This ASA lecture will be presented by a new resident of Academy Village/Altura,

Derek Lemoine, Associate Professor of Economics, Eller School of Management, UA Wednesday, September 29, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Webinar*       Over the past several months, ASA has presented a number of lectures examining various aspects of climate

Nove Meyers Monday, October 11, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*            From homemade dollar bills to babies falling from the top of circus tents, from religious boot camps to a fight with God Himself, Running Away from

Michael M. Brescia, Ph.D., Curator of Ethnohistory, Arizona State Museum Affiliated Professor of History and Law, UA  **** CANCELED ****  Monday, September 27, 2021 Much like the heated debates over Civil War monuments and critical race theory, recent polemic concerning the

Steven Renzi, Speaker for Arizona Humanities, writer, and photographer Wednesday, September 22, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar* In movies and stories, the conquest of the West is associated primarily with the technology of the six-shooter and the repeating

Dan Angelo, President of ASA; and Gary Fenstermacher, President of ASC Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, Live in the Great Room and an ASA Zoom Webinar*   Note: This program has been specially organized for ASA members who live

Michael Chriss, Astronomer and Academy Village Resident Wednesday, September 1, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, a Zoom Webinar*   Measuring time:  in pre-history people could keep track of the days by the sun’s rise and setting; the months by the changing of

Dr. Albrecht Classen, University Distinguished Professor of German Studies, University of Arizona Wednesday, August 25, 2021 2:30–3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar* In the long history of borders and walls, one stands out in recent human memory: we know it

Carolyn O’Bagy Davis, Writer and Lecturer on Western History  Wednesday, August 18, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, An ASA Zoom Webinar*   Carolyn O’Bagy Davis, western historian, archeology writer and master quilter, is currently writing the biography of a remarkable woman, Kate

Vivian Harte, Writer, former president of Greater Tucson League of Women Voters Wednesday, August 11, 2021, 1:30-2:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*  (Please note: this presentation will not be recorded for rebroadcast.)   Every state has a prescribed protocol for

Kirsten Engel, JD, Arizona State Senator District 10 Wednesday, August 4, 2021, 2:30-3:30pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar* (Note: this talk was rescheduled from June 21.)   As you may be aware, the Arizona Senate has been highly active in 2021,

Jim Malusa, Research Scientist with the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, UA Wednesday, July 21, 2021 2:30–3:30 pm An ASA Zoom Webinar*      Fires are distressing:  Over the last thirty years, every mountain range in southeastern Arizona

Carlye Dundon, Owner, Maxfield Creative Consulting Wednesday, July 28, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar*   Carlye Dundon has spoken at ASA many times on various topics and personalities in the world of art.  Her lectures have always been

Gitanjali Gnanadesikan, MA, PhD Candidate, UA Wednesday, July 14, 2021, 2:30 – 3:30 pm, a Zoom Webinar*     One of the challenges of studying animals is that we can’t just ask them what they are thinking; consequently, we have

Jean McLain, Professor, Environmental Sciences, UA Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 2:30-3:30 pm, an ASA Zoom Webinar* As our groundwater is increasingly depleted by pumping and the Colorado River is being exhausted by ever greater agricultural and population demands, what are

Leslie Boyer, Emeritus Professor/Medical Director, VIPER Institute, UA Wednesday, June 30, 2:30 – 3:30 pm, a Zoom Webinar* The Sonoran Desert is a haven for interesting wildlife, including venomous creatures such as scorpions, rattlesnakes, Gila monsters, and black widow and