Lunchtime lectures, talks and readings
Free lectures, readings and talks to help you discover
more about Moctezuma and the Mexica (Aztecs).
Lunchtime lectures and reading
Admission free, booking advised
Moctezuma II: Mexica ruler
Friday 25 September, 13.15
By Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, former director of the excavations at
the Great Temple in Tenochtitlan.
The
conquest seen from different eyes
Friday 16 October, 13.30
Susan Castillo, King’s College London, reads from both Spanish and
indigenous accounts.
Cortés and Moctezuma:
a continuing enigma
Saturday 31 October, 13.15
By Sir John Elliott, University of Oxford
The
search for Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec feathered serpent
deity
Thursday 7 January, 13.15
By Eleanor Wake, former lecturer at Birkbeck
Curators’ introductions to
Moctezuma
By Colin McEwan, exhibition curator
Saturday 3 October,
13.15 (S)
Friday 13 November,
13.30 (S)
Saturday 16 January,
13.15 (S)
By Elisenda Vila Llonch, assistant exhibition curator
Saturday 24 October,
13.15
Friday 27 November,
13.30
Friday 4 December,
13.30
S sign interpreted
Related talks
Admission free, just drop in
Object and image:
pre-Hispanic and colonial Mexico
Tuesday 29 September, 13.15
By Elisenda Vila Llonch, British Museum
The
arts before and after Moctezuma
Tuesday 13 October, 13.15
By Elizabeth Baquedano, University College, London
Objeto e imagen:
México prehispánico y colonial
Wednesday 28 October, 13.15
By Elisenda Vila Llonch, British Museum
Commerce, trade and exploration in Aztec
times
Thursday 19 November, 13.15
By Max Carocci, Birkbeck
Reyes y nobles del México
antiguo
Thursday 10 December, 13.15
By Elizabeth Baquedano, University College, London
Object and image:
pre-Hispanic and colonial Mexico
Tuesday 19 January, 13.15
By Elisenda Vila Llonch, British Museum
