Conferences, Workshops, and Lectures

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Since its founding, the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project has organized numerous conferences, symposia, and lecture series bringing together scholars, archaeologists, historians, and artists working on Mesoamerican cultures and religions. These programs have fostered interdisciplinary dialogue on topics ranging from Aztec religion and ceremonial landscapes to the interpretation of codices, archaeological discoveries, and contemporary approaches to Mesoamerican cultural heritage.

The Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series were co-organized with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard Divinity School, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and Mexico’s Secretaría de Cultura, and made possible by the generous support of José Antonio Alonso Espinosa and Karen Beckmann.

Conferences, Workshops, and Symposia

1979–1990

• Center and Periphery and the Aztec Empire (1979)
• The Works of Mircea Eliade (1982)
• The Last Aztec Treasure: From Excavation to Museum — lecture by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (1983)
• Mesoamerican Religions: City, Symbol and Conquest (1983)
• Symbolic Stones and Sacred Pivots: Mesoamerican Religions, Archaeology, and the Templo Mayor (1984)
• Waiting for the Dawn: A Reception for Mircea Eliade (1985)
• Imagination of Matter: Religion and Ecology in Mesoamerican Traditions (1986)
• Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion: Conversations with Charles H. Long (1986)
• Consultation on the Future of Aztec Studies: Center and Periphery in the Mexica World (1987)
• Performance and Place: Aztec Centers, Aztec Actions (1988)
• Ceremonial Landscapes in Aztec Religion: Focusing on Specifics (1989)

1991–2000

• Tradition and Innovation in Aztec Society (1991)
• Aztec Time and the Ceremonial Landscape (1992)
• The Classic Heritage: From Teotihuacan to the Templo Mayor (1995)
• Charles H. Long and the Imagination of Matter Project (1995)
• The Classic Heritage: Continuity and Change (1996)
• Reimagining Mesoamerica: Archive, Community, and Interpretation (1999)
• Sacred Mountains: Social Contexts and Cosmovision in Mesoamerican Communities (2000)

2001–2016

• Mediating Mesoamerica: Teotihuacan, Maya Crossroads, and Harvard’s Peabody Museum (2002)
• Approaching the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2 (2004)
• Interpreting the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2 (2004)
• Understanding the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan No. 2 (2005)
• Thirty Years of Excavation at the Templo Mayor (2007)
• Mirrors and Footsteps: Reflections on the Work of Alfredo López Austin (2011)
• William B. Taylor’s Scholarly Inquietudes: An Interdisciplinary Workshop (2014)
• Telling Stories: Discourse, Meaning, and Performance in Mesoamerican Things: In Honor of Elizabeth H. Boone (2014)
• As Above, So Below: Cosmic Roads to Mesoamerican Underworlds: A Symposium in Honor of Saburo Sugiyama (2016)

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series

2017–2022

• Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
  De la vida a la muerte: Tres momentos distintos y una pasión verdadera
  (From Life to Death: Three Transformative Moments and a True Passion) — Fall 2017
• Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
  Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Discovers Himself: Excavations of the Great Aztec Temple — Spring 2018
• Alfredo López Austin
  El día que salió el sol: Trece pasos y un canto
  (The Day the Sun Rose: Thirteen Steps and a Song) — Fall 2018
• Javier Garciadiego
  The Mexican Revolution of 1910: A Socio-Historical Interpretation — Spring 2019
• Diana Magaloni
  El Códice Florentino y la creación del Nuevo Mundo
  (The Florentine Codex and the Creation of the New World) — Fall 2019
• Juan Villoro
  The Obsidian Mirror: Literature and Archaeology in Mexico — Fall 2020
• Ann Cyphers
  The Dawn of Olmec Civilization — Spring 2021
• Laura Filloy Nadal
  Una mirada al pasado desde el presente: (Re)Construyendo materialidades mesoamericanas entre lo físico y lo efímero
  (A Look at the Past from the Present: Reconstructing Mesoamerican Materialities between the Physical and the Ephemeral) — Fall 2022