[Aztlan] PEABODY WEEKEND OF THE AMERICAS CONFERENCE

[michael ruggeri]

October 5-7, 2007
Storied Walls; Murals of the Americas
The Peabody Museum Weekend of the Americas


Registration Desk: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street,  
Cambridge. Saturday 8:30 am – 12:00 pm

Lectures: All lectures will be held in the Geological Lecture Hall.

Cocktail Reception: Separate reservation required. Additional fee.

Workshops: Space is limited, please sign up early to reserve your  
place.Workshops free with Weekend registration, also available  
separately (includes museum admission).

Questions: Contact Catherine Linardos at 617-495-2269.

Weekend (includes all lectures, Friday reception, workshops, tours,  
parking pass)
Member $100;
Nonmember $135;
Student/senior $60

Peabody Membership
Single: $40;
Family: $60;
Student/Senior: $25

Saturday Cocktail Reception (not included in weekend registration) $40

Workshop Only $25/workshop
(includes Museum Admission)

Friday Evening October 5, 2007

Public Lecture and Reception (free and open to the public)

5:30 pm
Ancient Maya Murals:Virtual Courts at Work and Play
Mary Miller,Vincent Scully Professor of the History of Art, Yale  
University

Saturday, October 6, 2007
Registration: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street
Coffee and Refreshments

Morning Session, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Welcome and Introduction
William L. Fash, Charles P. Bowditch Professor of Central American  
and Mexican Archaeology, Harvard University, and Director, Peabody  
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

Storied Walls and “Wallpaper”:The Many Uses of Murals and Friezes in  
Ancient Peru
Jeffrey Quilter, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator,  
Intermediate Area Collection, Peabody Museum

House of Earth, House of Sky:The Painted Murals from Building A at  
Cacaxtla
Javier Urcid, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Brandeis University

Lunch 12:30 – 2:00 pm
(Lunch available with advance purchase in Room 14A.)

Afternoon Session, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Visual Metaphors in Ancient Hopi Mural and Pottery Painting
Kelley Ann Hays-Gilpin, Associate Professor of Anthropology,
Northern Arizona University

Teotihuachan: Murals, Ball Games, and the Beginning of Time
Maria Teresa Uriarte, Professor of Art History and Head of the
Council for Art and Humanities, National University of Mexico

Painting Places for Aztlan: Chicano Murals and Indigenous Cosmovision
Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of
Latin America, Harvard University


Saturday Evening
Cocktail Reception, 5:30 – 7:00 pm (reservations required)
Feast of hot and cold hors d’oeuvres in the Peabody Museum
Photographic Gallery

Sunday, October 7, 2007
Coffee and Danish in the Peabody Museum, Gallery 12, 9:00 am

Workshops: 10:00 am – 12:30 pm.
All options below are concurrent. Please sign up for one
(1) workshop per person.

Awatovi Murals: Storage Tour and Discussion of Mural, Ceramic, and  
Katsina Symbolism Steven LeBlanc, Director of Collections

Little Known Maya Murals Heather Hurst, Illustrator and Graduate  
Student,Yale University

The Murals of San Bartolo: Bill Saturno, Assistant Professor of  
Archaeology, Boston University

Murals in Miniature: Ceramic Art of Peru: Jeffrey Quilter, Deputy  
Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator, Intermediate Area  
Collection, Peabody Museum