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January 15
Noon-1:30 pm or 2:30-4:00 pm
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Family Program
Family Fun Saturday Amazing Aztecs
$5 per child with Peabody Museum admission. Advance reservations required.
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February 10
5:30 pm
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Lecture
To Write or Knot? Another Route to Record Keeping in the Ancient Americas
Gary Urton, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
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February 17
5:30 pm
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Tatiana Proskouriakoff Award Lecture
The Ajaw’s Own Words: Oration and Royal Testimony in Ancient Maya Texts
David Stuart, Linda and David Schele Professor of Mesoamerican Art and Writing, University of Texas at Austin
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February 19
Noon-4:00 pm
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Family Program
Family Fun Saturday School Vacation Discovery Room
Free with Peabody Museum admission.
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February 23-26
Noon-4:00 pm
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Family Program
Family Fun Saturday School Vacation Discovery Room
Free with Peabody Museum admission.
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February 24
5:30 pm
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Lecture
The Living Sign: Maya Hieroglyphs and Vitalized Writing
Stephen Houston, Dupee Family Professor of Social
Sciences, Brown University
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March 2
5-7 pm
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Exhibition Opening and Reception
House of Love: Photographic Fiction, Dayanita Singh
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March 10
5:30 pm
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Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Lecture
The Evolution of Big-Game Hunting: Protein, Fat, or Politics?
John D. Speth, Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Curator of North American Archaeology in the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan
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March 19
Noon-1:30 pm or 2:30-4:00 pm
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Family Program
Family Fun Saturday Curious About Cuneiform
$5 per child with Peabody Museum admission. Advance reservations required.
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March 24
5:30 pm
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Lecture
Adopting and Adapting Writing in Native Nations of the Northeast
Lisa Brooks, Assistant Professor of History and Literature and of Folklore and Mythology, Harvard University
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March 27
4-6 pm
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Book Launch
The Road to Ruins
Ian Graham, author
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March 29
5:30 pm
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Gordon R. Willey Lecture
The Teotihuacan Cosmogram and Polity: Update on the
Sacred City and its Three Monuments
Saburo Sugiyama, Professor, International Cultural Studies, Aichi Prefectural University & School of Human Evolution and Social Change
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April 7
5:30 pm
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Lecture
War of Words: Rethinking Plains Indian "Ledger Art"
Castle McLaughlin, Associate Curator of North American Ethnography, Peabody Museum
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April 14
5:30 pm
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Lecture
Excavating the Great Aztec Temple:Achievements and Perspectives
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, General Coordinator, Great Aztec Temple Project
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April 16
Noon-4:00 pm
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Family Program
Family Fun Saturday School Vacation Discovery Room
Free with Peabody Museum admission.
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April 20
5:30 pm
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Lecture
A Brief History of the Spectre of the Internet and the Death of Writing
Matthew Battles, author, Library: An Unquiet History
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April 28
5;30 pm
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Lecture
The Preservation and Importance of Inscriptions
Barbara Fash, Director, Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Peabody Museum
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May 21
Noon-1:30 pm or d 2:30-4:00 pm
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Family Program
Family Fun Saturday Wall Art Stories
$5 per child with Peabody Museum admission. Advance reservations required.
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June 18
1:00-3:00 pm
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Family Program
Family Fun Saturday Give Me Shelter
Free with Peabody Museum admission.
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