2015–2016 Lectures

For the inaugural season of the Pre-Columbian Society of New York lecture series (2015–2016), we featured the following presentations:

Thursday, September 10, 2015–6:00 PM
Tradition and Invention in the Deity Images of the Florentine Codex
Eloise Quiñones, Professor Emerita of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art, The City University of New York Graduate Center and Baruch College

Thursday, October 15, 2015–6:00 PM
Wendell Bennett and the Search for Middle Chimu
Amanda Gannaway, Lecturer in Discipline, Department of Art History & Archaeology, Columbia University

Wednesday, November 18, 2015–6:00 PM
The Many Faces of Hun Ajaw and Yax Balam
Justin Kerr, Independent Scholar and creator of the Maya Vase Database

Thursday, February 11, 2016—6:00 PM
An Ancient Grid Plan among the Ancient Maya at Nixtun-Ch’ich’, Peten, Guatemala
Timothy W. Pugh, Professor, Department of Anthropology, The City University of New York Queens College and the Graduate Center

Thursday, March 10, 2016—6:00 PM
The Coatlicues as Chicomecoatls: Rattlesnakes, Corn & Aztec Science
Lois Martin, Independent Scholar

Thursday, April 14, 2016—6:00 PM
Creation Narratives on Ancient Maya Codex-Style Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum
James A. Doyle, Assistant Curator, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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