The Aztec Royal Court

Programme

Friday 14 June

18:00 - "How to construct a dragon for a changing world : The Zoomorph on the Venus Platform at Chichén Itzá".
Keynote lecture by Emeritus Professor, Cecelia Klein, Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles

Saturday 15 June

• 10:00 - Registration
• 10:20 - Welcome address
• 10:30 - Women in the Stone Sculpture of Tula: Deities or Rulers? Is the Answer “Yes?” (Keith Jordan, Department of Art and Design, California State University, Fresno)
• 11:00 Aztec King as Hunter: the Case of Motecuhzuma II (Guilhem Olivier, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, National University of Mexico)

11:30-12:00 Coffee

• 12:30 Beyond Cemanahuac: The Tlahtoani as a globalizing ruler (Caroline Pennock, Department of History, University of Sheffield)

1:00 Lunch

• 2:30 An Aztec Royal Visit to the Court of Carlos V (Susan Milbrath, Florida Museum of Natural History)
• 3:00  Huitzilopochtli and the Aztec Tlahtoani: Images of War and Power in their Attire (Loïc Vauzelle, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)

4:00 -4:30 Tea

• 4:30-5:00 The Role of Music in the Tlahtoani’s affairs (Elizabeth Baquedano, UCL, Institute of Archaeology)
• 5:00 Between iconography and letters - Crime and punishment in early colonial sources (1542-1548)  (Romy Köhler, University of Bonn)

Further details

For further information please e-mail: Elizabeth Baquedano (e.baquedano@ucl.ac.uk)

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