SOLD OUT: Representing Place in Mesoamerican Codices and Maps

This presentation is sold out. This session examines how Indigenous people in Mesoamerica—the region corresponding to modern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras—conceptualized and represented the spaces and places around them, both prior to and in the century after the Spanish invasion. Attendees will meet in the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center for a hands-on look at facsimiles of handpainted-screenfold books (codices) and maps made between 1400 and 1600, paying attention to the social and political circumstances in which they were made as well as the landscapes that they represent.