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.

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APRIL 2025

Monday, Lecture, April 7

“The Death of Public Education”

Gary Fenstermacher

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

Wednesday, Lecture, April 9

“The Birth and Death of American Public Education – Part 2”

Gary Fenstermacher

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

Friday, Lecture, April 11

“The Death of Public Education – Part 3”

Gary Fenstermacher

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

Monday, Lecture, April 14

“Biographies of Power and Culture in Colonial Mexico: Biography as History and the Origins of Mestizaje in Mexico”

Michael Brescia, Ph.D.

2:30pm – 4:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

SUNDAY CONCERT, APRIL 13th, 3:00pm-4:00pm, ASA Koffler Great Room

The Vail Chorale’s Spring Concert, “Romancing the Song,” contrasts classical songs – selections from Brahms’s “Love Song Waltzes” and Elgar’s “As Torrents in Summer” – with American songbook favorites and more – “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “An Orange Colored Sky,” “Love Me Tender.” Please note ASA performance time:  3:00pm.

NO WEDNESDAY LECTURE, April 16

FRIDAY CONCERT, APRIL 18TH, 11:30am-12:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room

The Duane Reilley Trio returns with straight-up jazz favorites by Cole Porter and George Gershwin, featuring Duane Reilley (sax, flute & clarinet), Daniel “Sly” Slipetsky (piano), and Evan Dain (upright bass).

Monday, Lecture, April 21

“Biographies of Power & Culture in Colonial Mexico: Early Colonial Elites, the Common Man, and the Push for Evangelization”

Michael Brescia, Ph.D.

2:30pm – 4:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

NO WEDNESDAY LECTURE, April 23

FRIDAY CONCERT, APRIL 25th, 4:00pm-5:00pm, ASA Koffler Great Room

The Tango Guitar Project is a tango trio of classical guitarists from Tucson – Maxi Larrea (Argentinian native), Andres Pantoja (Chilean native), and Misael Barraza-Diaz (Mexican native) – who join talents to perform new compositions and arrangements of traditional and contemporary tango pieces.

Monday, Lecture, April 28

“Biographies of Power and Culture in Colonial Mexico: The Long Seventeenth Century, Part I: Bishop-Viceroys and Collective Biography”

Michael Brescia, Ph.D.

2:30pm – 4:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

NO Wednesday, Lecture, April 30

MAY 2025

Monday, Lecture, May 5

Biographies of Power and Culture in Colonial Mexico: The Long Seventeenth Century, Part II: “Foolish Men” and the Tenth Muse

Michael Brescia, Ph.D.

2:30pm – 4:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

NO Wednesday, Lecture, May 7

Monday, Lecture, May 12

“Biographies of Power and Culture in Colonial Mexico: The Enlightenment Comes to Mexico: Late Colonial Stress and Independence”

Michael Brescia, Ph.D.

2:30pm – 4:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom

NO Wednesday, Lecture, May 14

Monday, Lecture, May 19

“Tumamoc Saguaros through time: 117 years of saguaro surveys and the future(s) of the saguaro”

Dr. Peter Breslin

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

Wednesday, Lecture, May 28

“Pioneering Jews of Southern Arizonans”

Lori Shepherd

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