Storied Walls : Murals of the Americas The Peabody Museum Weekend of the Americas October 5-7, 2007
Overview Schedule Speakers General Information Download Brochure Special Children's Program Related Programs of Interest Peabody Home	Schedule Friday Evening October 5, 2007 Public Lecture and Reception (free and open to the public) Reception 5:30 pm in the Peabody Museum, Lecture at 6:30 in the Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street (behind the Peabody Museum) 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 Yenching Institute, 2 Divinity Ave 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
	All material copyright © 2006 President and Fellows of Harvard College, all rights reserved