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Bloomsbury Summer School

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Fascinated by ancient civilisations?

We offer anyone with any level of knowledge, inspiring short courses on ancient Egypt and other areas of the ancient world.

2022 Course timetable

Saturday 19 to Sunday 20 and Saturday 26 to Sunday 27 March

GODS, TEMPLES, AND PALACES: AN OVERVIEW OF MESOAMERICAN ARCHITECTURE

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Course Director: Dr Elizabeth Baquedano (University College London)
Guest Lecturer: Prof. Elizabeth Graham (University College London)
Guest Lecturer: Dr Sanja Savkic Sebec (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz; Max Planck Institute and Humboldt University of Berlin)

 

Saturday 19 March

09:45 – 10.00*
Participants login to Zoom; BSS Director’s Welcome Address

10:00 – 11:15
1. Introduction

11:45 – 13:00
2. Teotihuacan: Monumental architecture and the associated gods

14:15 – 15:30
3. Teotihuacan’s Residential Architecture

16:00 – 17:15
4. Xochicalco: The Pyramid of the Plumed Serpent

 

Sunday 20 March

10:00 – 11:15
5. Maya Architecture : Palaces, temples, and plazas (Prof. Elizabeth Graham)

11:45 – 13:00
6. Maya Architecture: Palenque, palaces, and funerary architecture

14:15 – 15:30
7. Bonampak: The most sophisticated paintings to survive from the ancient New World

16:00 – 17:15
8. Maya Courtly Life

 

Saturday 26 March

10:00 – 11:15
9. Tikal: An overview

11:45 – 13:00
10. Art and Architecture at San Bartolo, Guatemala: ‘Las Pinturas’ group (Dr Savkic Sebec)

14:15 – 15:30
11. Architecture of the Postclassic Period: Chichen Itzá

16:00 – 17:15
12. Toltec Architecture and Sculpture

 

Sunday 27 March

10:00 – 11:15
13. Aztec Architecture: Palaces, pleasure gardens, and aqueducts

11:45 – 13:00                        
14. Wind God Temples: Calixtlahuaca, Tlatelolco

14:15 – 15:30                        
15. Templo Mayor: The Twin Temple dedicated to Tlaloc, the god of rain, and to Huitzilopochtli, the god of war

16:00 – 17:15                        
16. The House of the Eagles

17:15 – 18:30
Virtual Farewell Drinks Party on Zoom (guests welcome)

 

* All times are London UK time; Zoom waiting room opens 15 minutes prior to the start.

Timetables, once published, are unlikely to change, but remain provisional until the first day of the course.