[Aztlan] The Art of Teotihuacan and its Sphere of Influence Symposium

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

This is forwarded from Lloyd Anderson,

Announcing the 9th Annual Mayer Center Symposium
The Art of Teotihuacan & its Sphere of Influence
November 7-8, 2009

Sharp Auditorium, Denver Art Museum

Dr. Warren Barbour, State University of New York, Buffalo - Host  
figurines
and the Social Order of Teotihuacan: Soldiers, Traders, Diviners and
Peasants

Dr. George Cowgill, Arizona State University, Tempe - Nose Pendants:  
Signs
of Rank and Office in the Political System of Teotihuacan?

Dr. Annabeth Headrick, University of Denver - Mass Production in a
Preindustrial Age: Individuality and Ideology in Teotihuacan's Censers

Dr. Charles C. Kolb, National Endowment for the Humanities - Classic
Teotihuacan Period Ceramic Production

Dr. James Langley, Canadian Society for Mesoamerican Studies - A Distant
Prospect of Teotihuacan

Dr. Matthew Robb, Saint Louis Art Museum - The Torch and the Shield:
Architectural and Iconographic Continuities at the Palace of  
Quetzalpapalotl

Dr. Saburo Sugiyama, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan - Cosmology,
Militarism, and Polity Materialized at the Major Monuments in  
Teotihuacan

Dr. Karl Taube, University of California, San Diego - Teotihuacan and  
the
Ceramic Art of Escuintla, Guatemala: Iconography and Cosmology in Early
Classic Mesoamerica

WORKSHOP: Teotihuacan style objects in the collection of the Denver Art
Museum. 9:30 - 12 noon on Sunday, 11/8 in the 4th Floor, Seminar Room,  
North
Building. Attendance is limited.

Join us after the lectures on Saturday for a cocktail reception and  
viewing
of the Pre-Columbian galleries, 4th floor, North Building. Admission  
to this
event is included in the cost of your ticket.

See attached for a .pdf of the registration form. A hard copy mailing  
of the
symposium brochure will go out this week. We hope you can join us!

http://mayercenter.denverartmuseum.org/symposia.htm