VITA / SELECTED LECTURES 1980-PRESENT

“What One Should Know about Ancient American Art.” Keynote address, First Triennial Conference of the Association of Latin American Art, New York, October 26, 2007

“Sacrifice as Reciprocity: Aztec and Inca.” The Pre-Columbian Society of Washington conference in honor of Elizabeth Benson, Washington, 2006.

“Aztec Art at the Guggenheim Museum.” John Carter Brown Library, meeting in New York, 2005.

“Aztec Art and Sacrifice.” Lecture for the Trustees of the John Carter Brown library of Brown University, lecture held in New York, October 2004.

“Our Changing notions of Aztec Art.” Guggenheim Museum, Symposium as part of The Aztec Empire exhibit, New York, October 2004.

“The Fancy Stuff: Western Perspectives on Andean Art.” John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Spring 2003.

“The Past as Theme Park: Mesoamerican Architecture and Primitivism.” Inaugural lecture in honor of the Lisa and Bernard Selz professorship in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology, Columbia University, Oct. 2002.

“J.F. Waldeck in Search of the Exotic.” Sainsbury Research Center, Nov. 2001.

“Teotihuacan and the Maya.” UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, Oct. 1996.

“A Portrait of Teotihuacan.” Musée de la Seita, Sotheby’s Paris, Oct. 1995.

“Lady Bountiful: The Goddess of Teotihuacan.” Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, in conjunction with the symposium “Goddesses of the Western Hemisphere: Women and Power,” Sept. 1993.

“The Painted City: The Role of the Arts at Teotihuacan.” Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, in conjunction with the symposium “Mysterious City of the Gods: Teotihuacan” June, 1993.

“Body Parts: Social and Religious Ideology at Teotihuacan.” Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh, April 1992; College Art Association, Seattle, Feb. 1993.

“The Politics and Romance of Death.” University Seminar of Thanatology, Columbia University, April 1991.

“The Peoples and Arts of Mesoamerica.” (Two half-hour programs) World Wise cable television series, Mar. 1988.

“Identity and Difference: The Uses and Meanings of Ethnic Styles.” Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington D.C., Conference on Cultural Differentiation and Cultural Identity in the Visual Arts, Mar. 1987.

“The Art of Teotihuacan: A Pre-Columbian Tradition of Abstraction.” Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University, Nov. 1986.

“The Teotihuacan Composite Center: An Analysis of its Structure.” Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, April 1986.

“The Greenstone Art of Teotihuacan.” Associates of Primitive and Pre-Columbian Art, Columbia University, Jan. 1986.

“Teotihuacan and its Mural Painting Tradition.” De Young Museum, San Francisco, Jan. 1984.

“Presences and Absences in Inca Stonework.” Douglas Fraser Memorial Symposium on Primitive and Pre-Columbian Art, Columbia University, April, 1983.

“The Function of Art in the Pre-Industrial State: Mesoamerica.” Arts Council Lecture, University of California, Los Angeles, Feb. 1983.

“Aztec History and Religion,” “Architecture and Sculpture of the Aztec Capital, Tenochtitlan,” “The Elite and Popular Arts,” and “The New Excavations and Aztec Offerings,” comprising the Aztec lecture series in conjunction with the exhibition “Aztec Mexico: The Discovery of the Great Temple,” American Museum of Natural History, New York, July 1982.

“Art of the Aztec Empire.” St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, Feb. 1982

“Aztec Art and the Spanish Conquest.” American Society for Ethnohistory, San Francisco, Oct. 1980.

ESTHER PASZTORY
Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor
in Pre-Columbian Art History
and Archaeology

Department of Art History
and Archaeology
814 Schermerhorn Hall

Columbia University
in the City of New York

ep9@columbia.edu
(212) 854-5681