The Aztec Royal Court
14 June 2019–15 June 2019, 6:00 pm–6:00 pm
The Aztec Royal Court, a symposium in honour of Cecilia Klein, will be held at the UCL Institute of Archaeology on 14-15 June.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- £20.00
Organiser
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Elizabeth Baquedano
Location
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Room 612Institute of Archaeology31-34 Gordon SquareLondonWC1H 0PY
Programme
Friday 14 June
18:00 - "How to construct a dragon for a changing world : The Zoomorph on the Venus Platform at Chichén Itzá".
Keynote lecture by Emeritus Professor, Cecelia Klein, Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles
Saturday 15 June
- 10:00 - Registration
- 10:20 - Welcome address
- 10:30 - Women in the Stone Sculpture of Tula: Deities or Rulers? Is the Answer “Yes?” (Keith Jordan, Department of Art and Design, California State University, Fresno)
- 11:00 Aztec King as Hunter: the Case of Motecuhzuma II (Guilhem Olivier, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, National University of Mexico)
11:30-12:00 Coffee
- 12:30 Beyond Cemanahuac: The Tlahtoani as a globalizing ruler (Caroline Pennock, Department of History, University of Sheffield)
1:00 Lunch
- 2:30 An Aztec Royal Visit to the Court of Carlos V (Susan Milbrath, Florida Museum of Natural History)
- 3:00 Huitzilopochtli and the Aztec Tlahtoani: Images of War and Power in their Attire (Loïc Vauzelle, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
4:00 -4:30 Tea
- 4:30-5:00 The Role of Music in the Tlahtoani’s affairs (Elizabeth Baquedano, UCL, Institute of Archaeology)
- 5:00 Between iconography and letters - Crime and punishment in early colonial sources (1542-1548) (Romy Köhler, University of Bonn)
Further details
For further information please e-mail: Elizabeth Baquedano (e.baquedano@ucl.ac.uk)