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This event will be livestreamed in Spanish via the INAH YouTube channel. Please email Lorena Rodas if you are interested in attending in-person. Masks will be required at all times during event.
Speaker: Laura Filloy Nada, Associate Curator of Ancient American Art, The Metropolitan Museum
The Harvard University Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series celebrates the excellence of Mexican archaeology and history, represented by its namesake, Mexico’s preeminent archaeologist. The Fall 2022 Lecture will be delivered by Laura Filloy Nadal, Associate Curator of Ancient American Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City. The lecture, "Una mirada al pasado desde el presente: (re)construyendo materialidades mesoamericanas entre lo físico y lo efímero" (“A Look at the Past from the Present: (Re)Constructing Mesoamerican Materialities between the Physical and the Ephemeral”), will be delivered on Tuesday, October 4th, at 8 pm EDT at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. The lecture will be livestreamed (in Spanish), for those unable to attend, at the INAH YouTube channel.
Laura Filloy Nadal was appointed associate curator of Ancient American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 2022. She previously served as senior conservator in the Conservation Laboratory of Mexico’s National Museum of Anthropology. She has been a professor at the National School of Anthropology and History and the National Conservation School—both part of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History—where her teaching focused on methodologies for archaeological conservation. Her distinctions include membership in Mexico’s National System of Researchers; the Paul Coremans Award for best conservation work for the restoration of the jade funerary mask of Pakal, ruler of Palenque; and an honorable mention for the Alfonso Caso Award in archeology for her doctoral dissertation, which is forthcoming in book form with the Fondo de Cultura Económica. Laura Filloy Nadal holds a BA in Restoration from Mexico’s National School of Conservation, as well as MA and PhD in Archeology degrees from the Sorbonne in Paris.
Presented in collaboration with Harvard Divinity School and Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project