Bloomsbury Summer School
Fascinated by ancient civilisations?
We offer anyone with any level of knowledge, inspiring short courses on ancient Egypt and other areas of the ancient world.
2022 Course timetable
Saturday 19 to Sunday 20 and Saturday 26 to Sunday 27 March
GODS, TEMPLES, AND PALACES: AN OVERVIEW OF MESOAMERICAN ARCHITECTURE
Course Director: Dr Elizabeth Baquedano (University College London)
Guest Lecturer: Prof. Elizabeth Graham (University College London)
Guest Lecturer: Dr Sanja Savkic Sebec (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz; Max Planck Institute and Humboldt University of Berlin)
Saturday 19 March
09:45 – 10.00*
Participants login to Zoom; BSS Director’s Welcome Address
10:00 – 11:15
1. Introduction
11:45 – 13:00
2. Teotihuacan: Monumental architecture and the associated gods
14:15 – 15:30
3. Teotihuacan’s Residential Architecture
16:00 – 17:15
4. Xochicalco: The Pyramid of the Plumed Serpent
Sunday 20 March
10:00 – 11:15
5. Maya Architecture : Palaces, temples, and plazas (Prof. Elizabeth Graham)
11:45 – 13:00
6. Maya Architecture: Palenque, palaces, and funerary architecture
14:15 – 15:30
7. Bonampak: The most sophisticated paintings to survive from the ancient New World
16:00 – 17:15
8. Maya Courtly Life
Saturday 26 March
10:00 – 11:15
9. Tikal: An overview
11:45 – 13:00
10. Art and Architecture at San Bartolo, Guatemala: ‘Las Pinturas’ group (Dr Savkic Sebec)
14:15 – 15:30
11. Architecture of the Postclassic Period: Chichen Itzá
16:00 – 17:15
12. Toltec Architecture and Sculpture
Sunday 27 March
10:00 – 11:15
13. Aztec Architecture: Palaces, pleasure gardens, and aqueducts
11:45 – 13:00
14. Wind God Temples: Calixtlahuaca, Tlatelolco
14:15 – 15:30
15. Templo Mayor: The Twin Temple dedicated to Tlaloc, the god of rain, and to Huitzilopochtli, the god of war
16:00 – 17:15
16. The House of the Eagles
17:15 – 18:30
Virtual Farewell Drinks Party on Zoom (guests welcome)
* All times are London UK time; Zoom waiting room opens 15 minutes prior to the start.
Timetables, once published, are unlikely to change, but remain provisional until the first day of the course.
