BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:342@1718.ucla.edu
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210430T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210430T150000
DTSTAMP:20210422T175342Z
URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/emrg-wip-2/
SUMMARY:EMRG Works-in-Progress Sessions: Summer Mentorship Research Project
 s
DESCRIPTION:-presented Alba Menéndez Pereda (UCLA)\n\nHosted by the Early 
 Modern Research Group\n\nOnline event via Zoom\nFor Zoom registration deta
 ils\, please email the Early Modern Research Group.\n\nThe Graduate Certif
 icate in Early Modern Studies\, administered by the Center for 17th- &amp\
 ; 18th-Century Studies\, offers UCLA graduate students an avenue to explor
 e the increasingly transnational and interdisciplinary nature of early mod
 ern studies through specially designated comparative courses and unique fe
 llowship and mentoring opportunities.\n\nStudents in the certificate progr
 am are eligible to apply for competitive Summer Mentorships\, which provid
 e financial support to complete one of the certificate requirements: a 25-
 page paper on an early modern studies topic of interdisciplinary breadth. 
 The Summer Mentorship affords the opportunity for students to work closely
  with a Center/Clark Core Faculty member to develop their paper for presen
 tation at an academic conference or for potential publication.\n\nThe Ear
 ly Modern Research Group\, which meets under the auspices of the UCLA Cent
 er for 17th- &amp\; 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Mem
 orial Library\, invites you to attend this work-in-progress session featur
 ing presentations by two Summer Mentorship awardees. Following each presen
 tation\, the speakers and their faculty mentors welcome feedback from atte
 ndees during a collaborative discussion.\n\nAlba Menéndez Peredawill pres
 ent “Walking the Purucaya: Inca Landscape and Rituals of Memorialization
 .” Her dissertation research examines Inca elite understandings of death
  and associated memorialization rituals. Given the fact that deceased Inca
  leaders were neither buried nor cremated but instead preserved and kept a
 mong the living\, this project challenges traditional approaches to mortua
 ry archaeology in an attempt to look for avenues in which to incorporate I
 nca funerary rituals. The author proposes a spatial perspective of Inca fu
 nerary traditions rather than approaching these as location-based practice
 s. The singular nature of Inca funerary ceremonies presents before us a di
 fferent understanding of death and thus forces us to imagine alternative a
 pproaches to its archaeological study. She is mentored by Stella Nair\, 
 Associate Professor\, Indigenous Arts of the Americas\, Department of Art 
 History.\n\n\nAlba Menéndez Pereda is a doctoral candidate at the Cotsen 
 Institute of Archaeology at UCLA where her research focuses on elite funer
 ary practices in the Inca heartland from a spatial perspective. Alba arriv
 ed at UCLA after having pursued her B.A. in archaeology at the University 
 of Durham and having completed her master’s specializing in archaeology 
 of the Americas at the University of Cambridge. Alba has conducted fieldwo
 rk in England\, Italy\, Spain\, and Peru as part of academic research as w
 ell as cultural resource management projects.
CATEGORIES:Cosponsored Event,Lectures
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:20210314T030000
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
END:VCALENDAR