"Under Cover of Darkness: The Meaning of Night in Ancient Mesoamerica"

a one-day symposium sponsored by

THE PRE-COLUMBIAN SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, D.C.

Speakers are: Linda A. Brown, The George Washington University “Objects by Day/Spirits by Night: Divination Tools, Sacra and the Night among Contemporary Tz’utujil Maya Ritual Practitioners”

Cecelia F. Klein, University of California, Los Angeles “The Eyes Have It: Aztec Ways of Seeing in the Dark”

John Pohl, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA “Beneath the Eyes of Heaven: The Significance of the Representation of Night and Darkness in the Ancient Mexican Codices”

Kent Reilly, Texas State University, San Marcos “Visions of the Dawn of Creation: The Liminal Space Between Night and Day”

Keith M. Prufer, University of New Mexico “The Politics of Darkness: Elite Transformations of Space as Costly Signals of Power and Authority”

Marc Zender, Peabody Museum, Harvard University “Ahk'ab: Darkness and the Night in Maya Writing and Art”


Conveniently located at the U.S. Navy Memorial & Naval Heritage Center Downtown Washington, D.C., 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., between 7th and 9th Streets (next to the Archives/Navy Memorial Station on Metro’s Green and Yellow lines)

Saturday, September 25, 2010