For the second season of the Pre-Columbian Society of New York lecture series (2016–2017), we featured the following presentations: Thursday, September 8, 2016—6:00 PM (event info) Ancient Architecture in the Mississippi Valley: Monumentality Seen and Unseen Anna Blume, Professor of the History of Art, State University of New York, FIT
Thursday, October 13, 2016—6:00 PM (event info) The Fate of the Sacred Book of the Ancient Americas Barbara E. Mundy, Chair and Professor, Department of Art History and Music, Fordham University
Thursday, November 10, 2016—6:00 PM (event info) A Group of Inka Miniatures in Gold and Silver from the Far South Coast of Peru Heidi King, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, The Cooper Union; formerly of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday, December 8, 2016—6:00 PM (event info) To Have and to Hold: Captive Bodies and Captive Power in Ancient Maya Art Caitlin Earley, Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
Thursday, February 9, 2017—6:00 PM (event info) Entangled Tesserae: Looking at Classic Maya Political Society Simon Martin, Associate Curator, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Thursday, March 9, 2017—6:00 PM (event info) Tales of the Moche Kings and Queens: The Lords and Ladies of the Northern Deserts of Peru Jeffrey Quilter, William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
Thursday, April 13, 2017—6:00 PM (event info) Were They Enslaved? Maya Figurines from Jaina and Beyond Mary E. Miller, Sterling Professor of History of Art, Senior Director of the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Yale University
