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ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS IN RESIDENCE 


Querencia Artists & Scholars In Residence program welcomes influential artists, authors and leaders of thought to our 1,800-acre, 5-star private community in Los Cabos to experience sun-soaked Mexican hospitality, limitless adventure and connection. Idyllic high sierra desert and seascapes are the backdrop as Artists & Scholars in Residence inspire, educate, challenge and offer fresh perspectives to the Querencia community. Here, your passions, your performances, your words, are welcome. 

ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS CALENDAR


SPEAKER SERIES


With the success of the previous year’s inaugural Speaker Series, a robust roster of speakers, notable authors, political figures and renowned innovators have been assembled for 2020. Enjoy enriching presentations and an evening at Querencia.


SPEAKER SERIES CALENDAR

Below you will find a list of all of the Speakers that Querencia has welcomed to date. The most recent speaker is first.

CLAY JENKISON


 

PERFORMANCE 1: Thomas Jefferson
PERFORMANCE 2: Theodore Roosevelt
Clay has won numerous awards, including the National Humanities Medal, the highest honor conferred on a public humanities scholar in the United States. He has been named Humanities Scholar of the Year in Kansas, Nevada, and North Dakota. Video>>
 

MICHAEL MULLIGAN
 


LECTURE: The Challenge to Generation Z
Our children today devote an average of nine hours a day to their mobile phones, touchpads, and computers. Social media, online gaming, and the Internet dominate their time and attention. Internet Trolls threaten their welfare. So just what is going on? Why and how is this happening? And what can we as parents do to help our children find healthy paths to adulthood and avoid these existential pitfalls?   Video>>

KEN ADELMAN




LECTURE 1: Leadership Lessons from the Master: Ronald Reagan
LECTURE 2: Funny Stories from Inside the White House
Ken Adelman is a Renaissance man, having been a U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and Arms Control Director for President Ronald Reagan; translator for Muhammad Ali during The Rumble in the Jungle in Africa; professor of Shakespeare at Georgetown University; and author of six books.  Video>>

ANDREW ROBERTS


 

LECTURE 1: Churchill: Walking with Destiny
LECTURE 2: Napoleon’s Leadership Lessons​
Professor Andrew Roberts is a British historian, journalist and author. Dr. Roberts holds a first-class honours degree in Modern History from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he is an honorary senior scholar and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).
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DINESH D´SOUZA
 


LECTURE 1: United States of Socialism
LECTURE 2: Trump & the Republican Future
Please join us for two nights with bestselling author and filmmaker, Dinesh D’Souza. 
His films, 2016: Obama’s America and America: Imagine A World Without Her, are respectively the #2 and #6 highest political documentaries of all time.  Video>>

ALEX FILLIPENKO





LECTURE 1: Einstein Triumphs: Detection of Black Holes and Gravitational Waves and Why it Matters
LECTURE 2: Exploding Stars and the Accelerating Universe: What it Means for Our Planet
Alex Filippenko is a Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences and a Senior Fellow in the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science (UC Berkeley). Video>>

JEFF FLAKE


 

LECTURE: The Future of Conservatism
Former Arizona Senator Jeff Flake is the author of the New York Times bestseller Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and Return to Principle, where he discusses his stand for principle and civility in an era of hyperpartisanship.
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REMY GROSS
 


LECTURE: The Biology of Aging: Why and How We Age & Healthspan: Behavior and Interventions to Extend the Healthy Years of Life
Mr. Gross is the Vice President of Technology Advancement at the Buck Institute.  His current mission at the Buck is to increase deal flow and corporate or start-up collaborations in order to translate the Buck’s inventions into innovations, in addition to other strategic endeavors.  Video>>

SETH SHOSTAK



 
LECTURE: The 21st Century: How Everything Will Change 
Dr. Seth Shostak is the Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, and the Director of the Institute’s Center for SETI Research. He has published several books and papers on galaxies and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Video>>

BRIAN HARE & VANESSA WOODS



LECTURE 1: Survival of the Friendliest
LECTURE 2: What Bonobos Can Tell Us About Being a More Peaceful Species 
Dr. Brian Hare is an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University in North Carolina, and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center.  Video>>
Vanessa Woods is a New York Times bestselling author. She has been a Research Scientist at Duke University since 2005, and has worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo studying bonobos, and the People's Republic of Congo studying chimpanzees Video>>

DANIELLE PLETKA



LECTURE: America, Trump, and the Reality of Foreign Policy
Danielle Pletka is senior vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she oversees the Institute’s work on foreign and defense issues. Video>>

IGNACIO FELIX ACOSTA


  

 

LECTURE: The 1769 Portolá Expedition and the Birth of Alta California ​
An oceanographer who started abalone culture and its preservation. A shipowner in the Pemex marine transportation industry, Mexico’s surfing pioneer, and an author.  Video>>

DINESH D´SOUZA


LECTURE 1: The Roots of Our Cultural Divide.
LECTURE 2: Fake News and Fake History: How People Come to “Know” things that aren’t True
Dinesh D’Souza is a bestselling author and filmmaker who was named one of America’s most influential conservative thinkers by the New York Times Magazine 
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​Prof. Michael Mulligan



LECTURE 1: How Colleges Fail Our Children and How Schools Fail Our Colleges
LECTURE 2: What Every Teen Needs, What Every Parent Should Know,
and What Every School Should Do

Throughout his 30 year career, he has contributed to the excellence, and success of boarding schools, most notably at the America’s top prep school - The Thacher School in Ojai, California. 
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DR. MARK LIPONIS

 


LECTURE 1: Inflammation and Immunity
LECTURE 2: How Should I Eat?​

Dr. Liponis is one of the country’s leading experts in preventive and holistic health at Canyon Ranch in Lenox, Massachusetts. As Chief Medical Officer, he is responsible for establishing the clinical standards and cultivates its 360-degree approach to providing comprehensive integrative medical care.
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