[Aztlan] The Braunstein Symposium Schedule

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

Here is the schedule for the very interesting Braunstein Symposium on  
January 17 at the Marjorie Barrick Museum at the University of Nevada  
at Las Vegas

Mike Ruggeri


http://hrc.nevada.edu/museum/Braunstein Symposium/index.html

Braunstein Symposium
SATURDAY, January 17, 2009
8:30 am to 9:00 am Registration
9:00 am to 9:30 am Opening Ceremonies
9:30 am to 11:30 am
Pam Miller (College of Eastern Utah)
Fremont Figurines of Utah with a Special Emphasis on the Pilling  
Figurines
Kelley Hays-Gilpin (Northern Arizona University)
Three Figurine Traditions in Northern Arizona and New Mexico: Gender and
Gestures
11:30 am to 12:00 am Break
12:00 am to 1:00 pm Christine VanPool (University of Missouri)
Women of the Sun: Southwestern Effigies and the Cosmology of Feminity
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Lunch – served in exhibit hall
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Kata Faust (University of California, Riverside )
Effigy Head Vessels and Celestial Symbolism in Ancient Huastec Art and  
Thought
Rosemary A. Joyce (University of California, Berkeley)
Patterns of Identity: Group Membership in Honduran Formative Figurines
4:00 pm to 4:30 pm Break
4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Julia Hendon (Gettysburg College)
The Marriage Figurines of Western Honduras:  Style, Context, and Meaning
Ann Cyphers (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Face to Face, Head to Head: Exploring the Significance of Olmec  
Figurines
6:30 pm to 8:00 pm Evening Reception
SUNDAY, January 18, 2009
8:30 am to 11:30 am
John E. Clark (Brigham Young University)
Covering their Nakedness: Early Mesoamerican Figurines and Clothing
Gerardo Gutiérrez (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en
Antropología Social)
An Exploration of Nahualism and an Olmec Transformation Figurine from
Guerrero, Mexico
Erin Sears (University of Kentucky, Lexington)
The High Road or the Low Road?: Late Classic Maya Figurines within the  
Alta
Verapaz-Petén regions, Guatemala
11:30 am to 12:00 am Break
12:00 am to 1:00 pm Lisa Overholtzer (Northwestern University)
Molding Materiality and Producing Place: The Life Histories of Ceramic  
Figurines a
Postclassic Xaltocan, Mexico
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Lunch – served in exhibit hall
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Symposium wrap-up


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Lectures
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