The 2013-2014 Kadohadacho Speaker Series will have a theme this year\u2014iconography!\u00a0 Iconography is the study of the imagery or symbolism in art and images and all of our speakers for Spring 2013 and Fall of 2014 will address various aspects of how archeologists and art historians attempt to get at past cultures through the images that they leave behind.<\/p>\n
Our first speaker will be Dr. Reinaldo \u201cDito\u201d Morales<\/b>, Associate Professor of Art History with the Department of Art at the University of Central Arkansas.\u00a0 Dr. Morales will be talking about the iconography of Northeast Brazilian rock paintings with ties into interpreting petroglyphs on Petit Jean Mountain\u2014taking indigenous attitudes into consideration in the interpretation of very old rock art.<\/p>\n
Following that, in October we will play host to Dr. George Lankford<\/b>, professor emeritus<\/i> of anthropology and religion from Lyons College.\u00a0 Dr. Lankford is the author of many articles, book chapters and books about iconography in the Southeastern US\u2014including Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World (2011)<\/i>, Looking for Lost Lore: Studies in Folklore, Ethnology, and Iconography<\/i> (2008), Reachable Stars: Patterns in the Ethnoastronomy of Eastern North America<\/i> (2007), and many, many more.\u00a0 Dr. Lankford will be reprising his keynote address to the 2012 State-wide Arkansas Archeological Society Meeting on meaning on iconography.<\/p>\n
In November we have Dr. Duncan McKinnon<\/b>.\u00a0 Many of you will remember Dr. McKinnon from his Kadohadacho Chapter talks on Battle Mound, or from the honors course he taught on Native American iconography (entitled \u201cMyths and Mound Builders\u201d) here at SAU.\u00a0 Dr. McKinnon is now teaching anthropology at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, and he returns to talk about iconography in landscapes and pottery right here in south Arkansas.<\/p>\n
Our final Fall speaker will be our own Dr. Jamie Brandon<\/b> who will talk about some historic iconography\u2014the image of the bear in early Arkansas history\u2014and what it might mean (using artifacts excavated from Historic Washington State Park).<\/p>\n
In the Spring we will have more talks about prehistoric iconography in Arkansas and the southeastern United States.\u00a0 The first two are from Arkansas Archeological Society members. Don Higgins<\/b>, avid recorder of rock art on Petit Jean Mountain, will talk to us about the centenary of Petit Jean rock art study in February, while in March, James Rees<\/b>, Vice-President of the Arkansas Archeological Society, will talk to us about the intersection for archeomusicology and iconography.<\/p>\n
We will wrap up with our April speaker, Dr. Elizabeth Horton<\/b>, AAS Research Station Archeologist at Toltec Mounds State Park.\u00a0 Dr. Horton will be talking about the iconography used in Native American basketry.<\/p>\n
We are very excited about having a theme to this year\u2019s lectures\u2014and we hope that you are too.\u00a0 More information on each of the speakers will be forthcoming in each of the newsletters.\u00a0 We hope to see you at one of our talks this year.<\/p>\n
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Kadohadacho Speakers, 2013-2014<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 September 10<\/b>\u2014Dr. \u00a0Reinaldo \u201cDito\u201d Morales, Art Historian at UCA in Conway, will talk about interpreting rock art.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 October 8<\/b>\u2014Dr. George Lankford, professor emeritus<\/i> from Lyons College, will talk about Southeastern Native American iconography.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 November 12<\/b>\u2014Dr. Duncan McKinnon, anthropologist at UCA in Conway, will talk about iconography on landscapes and pottery here in southwest Arkansas.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 December 10\u2014<\/b>Our own <\/b>Dr. Jamie Brandon will talk about bears and historic iconography in Arkansas\u2026and we\u2019ll have t<\/b>he annual <\/b>AAS-SAU Research Station Open House and Holiday Potluck.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2022\u00a0 February\u00a0 11<\/b>\u2014Don Higgins, Arkansas Archeological Society member and avid rock art researcher, will talk about 100 years of studying rock art on Petit Jean Mountain.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 March 11<\/b>\u2014James Rees, Vice-President of the Arkansas Archeological Society and archeomusicologist, will talk about iconography and music in the southeastern US.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 April\u00a0 8<\/b>\u2014Dr. Elizabeth Horton, AAS-Toltec Station Archeologist, will talk about iconography in Native American basketry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2013-2014 Kadohadacho Speaker Series will have a theme this year\u2014iconography!\u00a0 Iconography is the study of the imagery or symbolism in art and images and all of our speakers for Spring 2013 and Fall of 2014 will address various aspects of how archeologists and art historians attempt to get at past cultures through the images… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":785,"featured_media":597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[529,16830],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-information","8":"category-talks","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}