Mapping the Worlds of Sixteenth Century Mexico

The conference is free and open to the public, but registration is required for planning purposes. Please use the online form to register for the conference.

Friday, September 15 - Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street

5:30 PM - Keynote Address

 "The Friar and the Native Lord: What manuscript artifacts can tell us about the collaboration of their makers"
 Rolena Adorno ( Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish, Yale University )
 Reception to follow.

Saturday, September 16 - Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Linsley-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street, Room 101

8:30-9:00 - Coffee and Registration

9:00-10:30 - Early Morning Sessions

 Welcome
 Mary Miller ( History of Art, Yale University )

 “The Beinecke Map”
 Dennis Carr ( History of Art, Yale University )

 “The Story within the Beinecke Map”
 Pablo Escalante and Saeko Yanaguisawa
 ( Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México )

10:30-10:45 - Break

10:45-12:00 - Late Morning Sessions

 “Invoking Authority on Colonial Mexican Maps”
 Barbara Mundy ( Art History, Fordham University )

 “The Sixteenth-Century Land Claims of the Royal House of Tenochtitlan:
 A Comparative Study of the Plano Parcial de la Ciudad de México and the Beinecke Map”
 María Castañeda de la Paz
 ( Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México )

 Discussion, to take place with projected images and drawings of the Beinecke Map
 Moderated by Gordon Whittaker
 ( Seminar für Romanische Philologie, Göttingen University )

12:00-1:30 - Lunch

1:30-3:00 - Early Afternoon Sessions

 “Tributary Art and Subversion in the Mapa de Santa Cruz”
 Matthew H. Robb ( History of Art, Yale University )

 "The Early Church and Early Churches in Colonial Mexico: Function and Symbol"
 Jaime Lara ( Yale University Divinity School and Yale Institute for Sacred Music )

 "Everywhere in this New Spain: Extension and Articulation of an Artistic World"
 Alessandra Russo
 (Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)

3:00-3:15 - Break

3:15-4:45 - Late Afternoon Sessions

 "Tollan in Memoriam: Reconstructing the Glyphs in a Missing Sixteenth-Century Pictorial Manuscript"
 Gordon Whittaker ( Seminar für Romanische Philologie, Göttingen University )

 “Who was Malinche?”
 Mary Miller ( History of Art, Yale University )

 “Painting the Conquest–Tracing a New Earth: The Hidden Structure of the Book of the Conquest in the Florentine Codex”
 Diana Magaloni
 ( Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México )