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.
APRIL 2025
“The Death of Public Education”
Gary Fenstermacher
2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom
“The Birth and Death of American Public Education – Part 2”
Gary Fenstermacher
2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom
“The Death of Public Education – Part 3”
Gary Fenstermacher
2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom
“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).
“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.
“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
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
“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
“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