Mesoamerican Object Biographies. The Past and Present of Mexican Precolumbian Treasures – University of Copenhagen

Mesoamerican Object Biographies. The Past and Present of Mexican Precolumbian Treasures

10:00
Welcome (Jesper Nielsen, University of Copenhagen)

10:15 
The Teotihuacan Water Goddess: Changing Perceptions of a Mesoamerican Monument   Leonardo López Luján (INAH, Museo Templo Mayor, Mexico City)

11:15 
Laura Filloy (Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City) Precious feathers and Fancy XV Century Feathered Objects: The Chapultepec Castle Chimalli and the Feather Disc-Tapacáliz in the Museo Nacional of Mexico

12:15 
Lunch

13:30 
Telling and Collecting Material Otherness: The Reception of Mesoamerican Artefacts in Early Modern Italy Davide Domenici (University of Bologna)

14:30 
From Oaxaca to Copenhagen: New Light on the History and Content of the Mapa de Xochitepec Jesper Nielsen & Christophe Helmke (University of Copenhagen)

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For further information please contact Jesper Nielsen (jnielsen@hum.ku.dk)