Lectures and concerts are now presented live in the ASA Great Room, and are open to the public and ASA members. ASA-sponsored concerts are also available to view on-line: Video Concerts; and the video lectures are available here.

Please click on date in blue to bring up a description of the lecture.

JANUARY 2025 HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Monday, Lecture, January 27

“Horses in Motion”

Laura Miller

2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

Wednesday, Lecture, January 29

“Bell Rocks and the Soundscape in Hohokam (Ancestral O’odham) Petroglyph Sites”

Janine Hernbrode and Peter Boyle

2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31st, 11:30am-12:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room

Soprano Jovahnna Anderson, Tenor Humberto Borboa and Pianist Kyungsun Choi perform vocal delights from opera, Broadway, and more.

FEBRUARY 2025

Monday, Lecture, February 3

“Experiencing Virtual Harlem (during the Harlem Renaissance)”

Bryan Carter

2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7th, 11:30am-12:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room

The Takuma Trio returns to the ASA with violinist Toru Tagawa, cellist Robyn Marshall and pianist Kyungsun Choi, to play Piano Trios by Gabriel Faure and Johannes Brahms

Wednesday, Lecture, February 5

“The Anthropology of Food”

Lynne A Schepartz

2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

Monday, Lecture, February 10

Iskashitaa Refugee Network

Barbara Eiswerth

3:30pm – 4:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

Wednesday, Lecture, February 12

“Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire and Sophocles’ Antigone”

Arum Park

2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14th, 11:30am-12:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room

Vocalist Sheryl Ann McKinley and jazz pianist Daniel “Sly” Slipetsky Jr present songs from the American Songbook for Valentine’s Day.

TUESDAY CONCERT FEBRUARY 18th, 11:30am-12:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room

Arizona Blues Hall of Fame members, Grams & Krieger Blues return with guitarist/slide guitarist Danny Krieger, bassist Steve Grams, and drummer Ralph Gilmore. (Rescheduled from January 3rd.)

Wednesday, Lecture, February 19

“Anxiety Disorders: How our Clinic Steadily Improved Treatment”

Randy Nesse

3:30pm – 4:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21st, 11:30am-12:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room

Pianist Kathryn Lieppman and flutist Julia Barnett play music for flute and piano by Mexican composers.

Monday, Lecture, February 24

“Functional Medicine: Understanding the Missing Link to Optimal Health and Wellness”

Karen Jimenez

3:30pm – 4:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

Wednesday, Lecture, February 26

“Padre Kino in the Americas”

Bernd Brand

3:30pm – 4:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28th, 11:30am-12:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room

“Liz & Pete” return to the ASA!  Singer/songwriter/guitarist Peter Dalton Ronstadt and vocalist Liz Cerepanya sing songs of the post-modern Southwest by Petie Ronstadt and more.