Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico
Olmec Symposium at LACMA
October 22 & 23, 2010
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This event is being held in conjunction with the exhibition,
"Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico" which will be
on display at LACMA from October 2, 2010 through January 9, 2011.
The Olmec Symposium will be free to the general public.

Symposium Schedule | Registration Details | Location

 

Olmec Symposium at LACMA | October 22 & 23, 2010
Bing Auditorium

This symposium is presented by LACMA and the
New World Archaeology Council (NWAC) in conjunction with the
Archaeological Institute of America – Orange County Society

Friday October 22, 2010
6pm-7:30pm

Panel Discussion

The Cascajal Block and Other Evidence of Early Writing in the New World

Cascajal Block
Drawing of Cascajal Block

Panel Moderator: Virginia Fields, LACMA Co-Curator

Michael Coe
Professor Emeritus,
Yale University 		Mary Pohl
Florida State University
Anthropology Department
.
Martha Macri
University of California, Davis
Department of Native American Studies 		Margaret Jackson
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque


The Olmec Exhibition will be open to the public on Friday at no charge starting at 5pm. Symposium attendees may purchase drinks, listen to Jazz in the Plaza, and visit with our symposium scholars until our panel discussion begins in the Bing Auditorium at 6pm.
Attendees may tour the Olmec Exhibition until 9pm.

Saturday October 23, 2010
9:15am-5pm

Olmec Symposium


The symposium will start at 9:15 am in the Bing Auditorium with an introduction by Virginia Fields. (Speaker order and presentation topics are to be determined; watch this web site for further details.) Following the presentation, symposium attendees may tour the Olmec Exhibition from 5:00pm - 8:00pm. Symposium guest speakers will be invited to tour the Olmec Exhibition and be available for Q & A.


--- Speaker List / Presentation Topics TBD ---

Karl Taube
University of California, Riverside 		Mary Pohl
Florida State University
Anthropology Department
.
Carl Wendt
California State University, Fullerton 		Richard Lesure
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
.
John Clarke
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 		Kent Reilly II
Texas State University
San Marcos
.
Christopher Poole
University of Kentucky

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Registration Information


The New World Archaeology Council [ NWAC ] is extremely pleased to announce that this Olmec Symposium is sponsored/organized by LACMA and NWAC and there will be no cost to attend.

This academic symposium is replacing (for the year 2010 only) the Maya Symposium, held every two years at the Academies of Science & Engineering, Beckman Center, Irvine, CA.

It has not yet been determined whether Symposium Pre-Registration will be required. Watch this web site for more information.

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The opening of the Olmec exhibition will coincide with Los Angeles celebrations of the bicentennial of Mexico’s independence and the centennial of the Mexican revolution.

The exhibition is co-organized by Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, LACMA and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and is curated at LACMA by Virginia Fields, senior curator of Arts of the Ancient Americas. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.


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