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\u201cSensing Inca Sacredness: The Sounds, Visions, Aromas, and Tastes of the Coricancha\u201d<\/em>
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Boston (22\u201325 November 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Contemporary Coricancha: Making an Inca Temple in the Twentieth Century\u201d<\/em>
Afterlives: Reinvention, Reception, and Reproduction, CSULB Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale (15 November 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Women of the Coricancha\u201d<\/em>
The Fowler Museum, Los Angeles (27 May 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A First Approach to the Sacred Soundscape of the Coricancha”<\/em>
Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference, Atlanta (3 May 2025)
*Presented with Luna Valentin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Metals at the Sacred Heart of the Inca Empire”<\/em>
Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Denver (27 April 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Sacredness at the Religious Center of the Coricancha”<\/em>
Archaeological Institute of America Orange County Society (5 May 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSolar Architecture and the Making of Inca Sacredness\u201d<\/em>
Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, New Orleans (19 April 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMaking Sacredness: Female Religious Specialists in the Inca Empire\u201d<\/em>
American Anthropological Association \/ Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting, Toronto (15 November 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShaky Foundations: Rebuilding the Coricancha in the Twentieth Century\u201d<\/em>
Vernacular Architecture Forum Annual Meeting, Plymouth (20 May 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Coricancha: Architecture of the Inca Sacred\u201d<\/em>
College Art Association Annual Conference, New York (16 February 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPerforming History: Landscapes as Multisensorial Archives in the Inca Empire\u201d<\/em>
(Re)thinking Landscape: Ways of Knowing \/ Ways of Being Conference, Yale University, New Haven (30 September 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeginning to Hear the Coricancha: Fine-Tuning our Knowledge of Inca Elite Ceremonies\u201d<\/em>
Sound, Space and the Aesthetics of the Sublime Conference, Stanford University, Stanford (21\u201322 May 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLunch & Learn: An Inka Khipu\u201d<\/em>
The Fowler Museum, Los Angeles (19 April 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWalking the Purucaya: Inca Landscape and Rituals of Memorialization\u201d<\/em>
Early Modern Research Group, Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (30 April 2021)<\/p>\n<\/div>

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presented at the \u201cSound, Space and the Aesthetics of the Sublime\u201d Conference, Stanford University. *Do not circulate or cite without the author\u2019s permission.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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This program was developed around an Inca quipu on display in Communications Systems in a Global Context<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click on the image to watch the recording of this talk on Vimeo.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Conferences and Lecture Series Organized<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moderator.<\/em> \u201cPower and Tawantinsuyu,\u201d Institute of Andean Studies, 63rd<\/sup> Annual Meeting (12 January 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizing Committee.<\/em> Clark Memorial Library Core Conference Program (\u201cThe Forgotten Canopy<\/a>: Ecology, Ephemeral Architecture, and Imperialism in the Caribbean, South American, and Transatlantic Worlds\u201d), Center for 17th<\/sup>– & 18th<\/sup>-Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (2022\u20132023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-moderator.<\/em> \u201cPublishing Andean Research in the U.S. and Latin America,\u201d Institute of Andean Studies, 61st<\/sup> Annual Meeting (7 January 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-organizer.<\/em> Andean Working Group<\/a>, University of California, Los Angeles (2020\u2013present)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Co-organizer. <\/em>Archaeology Lecture Series, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles (January\u2013March 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-organizer.<\/em> Indigenous Material and Visual Culture in the Americas Working Group<\/a>, Center for 17th<\/sup>– & 18th<\/sup>-Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (2019\u20132020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizing Committee.<\/em> 8th<\/sup> Graduate Archaeology Research Conference<\/a> (\u201cExperiencing Destruction and Regeneration in Archaeology\u201d), University of California, Los Angeles (2019\u20132020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizing Committee<\/em>. 18th<\/sup> Annual Cambridge Heritage Annual Symposium (\u201cHeritage and Revolution: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce?\u201d), University of Cambridge (December 2016\u2013May 2017).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Promotional materials that I designed for the Andean Working Group<\/strong> lecture series. The Andean Working Group, sponsored by the Latin American Institute and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, brings together U.S.-based and international scholars whose research focuses on the Andes from an archaeological, art historical, anthropological, historical, or linguistic perspective. See this page<\/a> for a list of speakers hosted by the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Papers Presented \u201cSensing Inca Sacredness: The Sounds, Visions, Aromas, and Tastes of the Coricancha\u201dAmerican Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Boston (22\u201325 November 2025) \u201cThe Contemporary Coricancha: Making an Inca Temple in the Twentieth Century\u201dAfterlives: Reinvention, Reception, and Reproduction, CSULB Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale (15 November 2025) \u201cThe Women … <\/p>\n

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