Papers Presented
“Solar Architecture and the Making of Inca Sacredness”
Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, New Orleans (19 April 2024)
“Making Sacredness: Female Religious Specialists in the Inca Empire”
American Anthropological Association / Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting, Toronto (15 November 2023)
“Shaky Foundations: Rebuilding the Coricancha in the Twentieth Century”
Vernacular Architecture Forum Annual Meeting, Plymouth (20 May 2023)
“The Coricancha: Architecture of the Inca Sacred”
College Art Association Annual Conference, New York (16 February 2023)
“Performing History: Landscapes as Multisensorial Archives in the Inca Empire”
(Re)thinking Landscape: Ways of Knowing / Ways of Being Conference, Yale University, New Haven (30 September 2022)
“Beginning to Hear the Coricancha: Fine-Tuning our Knowledge of Inca Elite Ceremonies”
Sound, Space and the Aesthetics of the Sublime Conference, Stanford University, Stanford (21–22 May 2022)
“Lunch & Learn: An Inka Khipu”
The Fowler Museum (19 April 2022)
“Walking the Purucaya: Inca Landscape and Rituals of Memorialization”
Early Modern Research Group, Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (30 April 2020)
You can access some of these presentations below:
Combining the analysis of material remains and ethnohistoric evidence, in this poster I examine Inca elite ceremonies within the Coricancha looking at the kind of sensorial experiences that were created within the temple through musical and non-musical sound and space.
Presented at the “Sound, Space and the Aesthetics of the Sublime” Conference, Stanford University. *Do not circulate or cite without the author’s permission.
This program was developed around an Inca quipu on display in Communications Systems in a Global Context at the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles. Directed to the general public, in this talk I provided an introduction to quipus: their materials, structure, colors, and form; the system by which they communicate numerical accounts and narratives; the challenges to their decipherment; and their legacy today.
Click on the image to watch the recording of this talk on Vimeo.
Conferences and Lecture Series Organized
I have organized numerous academic events for which I have been responsible for inviting speakers, managing budgets, coordinating catering, and designing visual materials for promotion. I undertake these roles with enthusiasm as an opportunity to contribute to the creation of interdisciplinary academic dialogue.
Moderator. “Power and Tawantinsuyu,” Institute of Andean Studies, 63rd Annual Meeting (12 January 2023)
Organizing Committee. Clark Memorial Library Core Conference Program (“The Forgotten Canopy: Ecology, Ephemeral Architecture, and Imperialism in the Caribbean, South American, and Transatlantic Worlds”), Center for 17th– & 18th-Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (2022–2023)
Co-moderator. “Publishing Andean Research in the U.S. and Latin America,” Institute of Andean Studies, 61st Annual Meeting (7 January 2021)
Co-organizer. Andean Working Group, University of California, Los Angeles (2020–2023)
Co-organizer. Archaeology Lecture Series, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles (January–March 2020).
Co-organizer. Indigenous Material and Visual Culture in the Americas Working Group, Center for 17th– & 18th-Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (2019–2020).
Organizing Committee. 8th Graduate Archaeology Research Conference (“Experiencing Destruction and Regeneration in Archaeology”), University of California, Los Angeles (2019–2020).
Organizing Committee. 18th Annual Cambridge Heritage Annual Symposium (“Heritage and Revolution: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce?”), University of Cambridge (December 2016–May 2017).
Posters that I created for the Andean Working Group lecture series which I co-organized between 2020 and 2023. The Andean Working Group, sponsored by the Latin American Institute and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, brings together local and international scholars whose research focuses on the Andes from an archaeological, art historical, anthropological, historical, or linguistic perspective. See this page for a list of speakers previously hosted by the group.