Home / Celebrating a Quarter Century of Latin American Art at Tulane: A Conference in Honor of Elizabeth Boone
April 06, 2024 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM
Uptown Campus
On Friday, April 5th, and Saturday, April 6th, 2024, Tulane University’s Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Newcomb Art Department are hosting a conference in honor of Elizabeth Boone. Featuring the work of her students who received their Ph.D. at Tulane, the two-day gathering celebrates Professor Boone's important and enduring legacy in the field of art history.
8:30 am Coffee and light breakfast
9:00 am Welcome
9:30-10:30am Panel 1
Bryan Just, Princeton University, “Space, Time, and Matter in Maya Ceramic Painting”
Catherine Nuckols, Tulane University, “Animate Embodiment in Stone: Maya Full-Figure Glyphs and the Embodiment of Ritual Monument Dedication”
10:30-11:00 am Coffee break
11:00 am-12:00 pm Panel 2
Julia O'Keefe, University of Texas, Austin, “Manifesting the Sacred: Aztec Stone Boxes as Landscapes of Exchange”
William L. Barnes, University of St. Thomas, “Auspicious Days, Monumental Events: Aztec Calendrical Rhetoric”
12:00-1:30 pm Lunch on site (registrants only)
1:30-2:30 pm Panel 3
James Cordova, University of Colorado, Boulder, “Flower Arts in Early Colonial Mexico”
Allison Caplan, Yale University, "They Duck-Talk, They Hum: Embodied Speech and the Human-Animal Divide in Early Colonial Mexico"
2:30-3:00 pm Coffee
3:00-4:00 pm Panel 4
Lucía Abramovich Sánchez, MFA, Boston, “The Predicament of Displaying Colonial Latin American Craft”
Patricia Lagarde, The Walters, “A Worldly Impression: A Replica of the Raimondi Stone at the Middle American Research Institute”
4:00-4:30 pm Discussion
8:30 am Coffee and light breakfast
9:00-10:30 Panel 5
Lori Diel, Texas Christian University, “Witnessing, Beholding, and Critiquing Violence in the Codex Tepetlaoztoc”
Hayley Woodward, Auburn University, “Spatializing Kinship in Mesoamerican Cartographic Histories”
Jennifer Saracino, University of Arizona, “Mapping Nahua Relationships to Land, Water, and Labor in the Uppsala Map of Mexico-Tenochtitlan”
10:30-11:00 am Coffee
11:00 am-12:00 pm Panel 6
Emily Floyd, University College London, “Neither Inca nor Savage: Reading Race in Late Colonial Limeño Engraved Portraiture”
Derek Burdette, University of Florida, “Miraculous Imagery and Modern Medicine in Late-Colonial Mexico City”
12:00-12:30 pm Discussion and concluding remarks
12:30 - 2 pm Lunch on site (registrants only)