Symposium: Day 2
Symposium: Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World
LACMA and UCLA are co-sponsoring a major international three-day symposium in conjunction with the special exhibition Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World, which brings together thirty of the most distinguised scholars in the field from Mexico, South America, Europe, and the United States.
On Saturday, December 3, the symposium takes place at UCLA’s Fowler Museum.
UCLA Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium | Free, no reservations | Printable Schedule
8:45–9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00–10:30 | SESSION 1
Contested Visions in and of the Pre-Columbian World
Aztec Sacred Mountains: A Cycle of Obligations
Richard Townsend, Art Institute of Chicago
Inca Transubstantiation
Carolyn Dean, University of California, Santa Cruz
Theaters of Power and Façades of Secrecy: Inca Architecture under Imperial Inca and Spanish Rule
Stella Nair, University of California, Riverside
Discussant: Joanne Pillsbury, Dumbarton Oaks
10:30–10:45 Break
10:45–12:15 | SESSION 2
The Conquest: Domination, Resistance, and Translation
Ideology and Translation: The Graphic Presentation of Catholicism in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
Elizabeth H. Boone, Tulane University
History in the Eye of the Beholder: Writing and Painting the Conquest of Mexico
Kevin Terraciano, UCLA
Apropiaciones cruzadas: las mascaypachas de los conquistadores y las coronas de los incas*
Juan Carlos Estenssoro Fuchs, Université Charles de Gaulle Lille 3
Discussant: Jaime Cuadriello, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México*
* Spanish Presentation
12:15–1:30 Lunch Break
1:30–3:20 | SESSION 3
Materials and Techniques: Competing Meanings
Fuzzy Caps, Tiny Tunics, and the Materiality of Featherwork in the Americas
Amy Buono, Southern Methodist University
Materials, Materiality, and Transformation in Andean Colonial Textile Traditions
Elena Phipps, Independent scholar, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Materials of Conversion: Sand, Gold, Resin, and Feathers and the Arts of Colonial America
Thomas B. F. Cummins, Harvard University
Metonymy, Metaphor, and the Matter of the Sacred
Jeanette Favrot Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Discussant: Diana Fane, The Brooklyn Museum (emeritus)