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)