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Curator Talk: Luis A. Muro Ynoñán
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
500 S. Goodwin Ave.
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 333-6280
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Join us for a talk by Peruvian archaeologist and curator Luis A. Muro Ynoñán,
as part of the Living Legacies series, presented in conjunction
with the Fragmented Histories; Andean Art Before 1600 exhibition.
Luis A. Muro Ynoñán (PhD, Stanford University) is a Peruvian archaeologist
specializing in the archaeology and heritage of the North Coast of Peru.
He is currently Assistant Curator of South American Anthropology at the Field Museum
of Natural History and a Lecturer in Archaeology at the Pontifical Catholic
University of Peru in Lima. Before joining the Field Museum as a curator,
he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),
a Postdoctoral Scientist at the Field Museum, and a Pre-Columbian Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks.
His broad theoretical interests include the study of ancient Moche religion,
performance, and politics, as well as heritage ethics, cultural rights,
and decoloniality in archaeology. Over the past 15 years, he has led multiple
archaeological programs in North Coast of Peru. He is currently the director
of the Zaña Cultural Landscape Archaeological Program in Lambayeque, Peru,
a multidisciplinary project the study the emergence of pre-Hispanic religious
monumental architecture in relationships to changes in the environment and ecology.
Co-presented with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS).