events

Events: October 2007



Sugar, Migration and Religion: A Cuban History Workshop at the University of Toronto

Fri, 26 Oct 07, 10 am-12 noon
Munk 108N & 2-4 pm in Sidney Smith Hall 2098
Marc McLeod (University of Seattle), Gilliam McGillivray (York University), José Abreu (UNEAC, Holguín, Cuba), Robert Whitney (Univ of New Brunswick), Catherine LeGrand (McGill University), Steven Palmer (University of Windsor)



Ethnohistorical Perspectives on Maya Elites: Changing Ideas of Status and its Materializations

Weds, October 24, 2007, 12-2 pm
Munk Centre, 108N
SARAH JACKSON, Mellon Post-doc Fellow, Anthropology, UofT



Andean Festivals: Honouring the Past in the Present

Fri, 19 Oct 07 -- 5-7 pm
Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park (Museum subway)
John TOPIC, Trent University, Justin JENNINGS, Royal Ontario Museum, Kenneth Mills, UofT



Negotiating Redemption: Art, Angels and Apocalypse in Early Modern Imperial Spain and Viceregal Peru ~ the 43rd Annual Erasmus Lecture, CRRS UofT

Thurs, 18 October 2007 -- 4 pm
Alumni Hall, Victoria College, 73 Queen's Park Crescent (TTC: Museum station)
Ramón MUJICA PINILLA, National University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru



Andean Crafts and the Challenge of Cultural Diversity in Contemporary Peru

Weds, 17 October 2007 -- 12-2 pm
Munk Centre, 108N
Claudia BALARIN DE MUJICA, National University of San Marcos and Ricardo Palma University, Lima, Peru



Imported Brilliance: Silk and Metal Yarns in the Colonial Andean Weaving Tradition

Sat, 13 Oct 07 -- 12-1pm, Public Lecture concluding Moving Worlds of the Baroque
Textile Museum of Canada auditorium, 55 Centre Avenue (just south of Dundas St W), st. patrick subway; Museum admission fees apply to non-participants
Elena PHIPPS, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC



Moving Worlds of the Baroque: a Chancellor Jackman Program for the Arts Symposium at the University of Toronto

Thursday, October 11 - Saturday, October 13, 2007
University of Toronto Art Centre, Vic 212 and Textile Museum of Canada
An international, interdisciplinary group of scholars, visit www.utoronto.ca/las and click on Moving Worlds of the Baroque for programme details and venues



Venezuela and Twenty-First Century Socialism

Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 12-2 pm
Munk Centre, 108N
DIANE RABY, University of Liverpool



Imperial Decadence: a roundtable on the late Spanish Empire

Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 4-6pm
Munk Centre, 208N
Peter BLANCHARD, History UofT; Alan DURSTON, History York University; Manuel LUCENA GIRALDO, CSIC, Madrid; Manuel HERRERO SANCHEZ, Universidad de Pablo Olavide