Series: Symposium—Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World

Friday, December 2, 2011–Sunday, December 4, 2011

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.

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The symposium was made possible with the support of Los Amigos del Arte Popular; Arvey Foundation; Kathleen Barrutia; Ron Belkin; Christie’s; Roberta Huber; Teresa Iturralde; Jan Mayer; Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities; and Connie Spenuzza. Additional support was provided by UCLA’s Latin American Institute; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies; Office of the Dean of Humanities; Department of Art History; Center for the Study of Religion, Graduate Division; and The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

Image: Marcos Chillitupa Chávez, Folding Screen With the Genealogy of the Incas (Biombo con la genealogía de los incas), 1837 (detail), oil on canvas, overall dimensions: 76 ¾ x 177 3/16 in. (195 x 450 cm). Cuzco Circle, Pastor Family Collection, Lima, Peru. Photo © D. Giannoni.