Elizabeth Boone honored with conference at Harvard

Elizabeth Boone, Professor and holder of the Martha and Donald Robertson Chair in Latin American Art, will be attending a conference in her honor on Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at Harvard University, titled "Telling Stories: Discourse, Meaning, and Performance in Mesoamerican Things," and receiving the 2014 "H.B. Nicholson Award for Excellence in Mesoamerican Studies" by the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard. 
Next month Dr .Boone will give a paper titled "Spatial Grammars: Meaning in the Two-dimensional Field at the Juncture of Art and Writing," at an international conference at the University of Chicago, "Signs of Writing: The Cultural, Social, and Linguistic Contexts of the World's First Writing Systems" on Nov. 8-9.