Yale Women Faculty Forum Lecture Series 2012-2013

Knowing
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Luce Hall 101 34 Hillhouse

4pm Lecture 5pm Reception

What We Can Know About the Beinecke Map of 1565: Gender, Authority, and Memory
Dean of Yale College and Sterling Professor of History of Art
In 1565, indigenous leaders in Mexico City painted the extraordinary document we call today the Beinecke Map of 1565. Painted on native paper and with meaningful application of native pigments, the work chronicles both Crown and indigenous rulership from the Spanish invasion until 1565, and the patterns of inheritance in an era of rapacious land practices and plague. DEAN MARY MILLER received her degrees from Princeton and Yale, and for thirty years has been a national leader in the study of the ancient New World, receiving both a Guggenheim Fellowship and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Miller most recently curated The Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; she delivered the Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in 2010. Her books include The Aztec Calendar Stone and The Art of Mesoamerica. Her new work will be published in 2013.

Mary Miller

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The WFF Interdisciplinary Lecture Series celebrates the scholarship of extraordinary women from Yale and beyond. Our 2012-2013 speakers draw from six fieldswith research that stretches across the humanities and sciences. Each talk will present unique perspectives on this years theme of Knowing. Cosponsored by the Yale Department of History of Art. For more information, contact wff@yale.edu.