"Theft on the National Museum of Mexico" by Dr. Adam Y. Sellen

The Embassy of Mexico in Canada, in collaboration with UNAM Canada,
has the pleasure to invite you to the conference:

“Theft on the National Museum of Mexico: the story of Porfirio Aguirre´ s looting of Mexico’s Archaeological Heritage”

By Dr. Adam Y. Sellen

Dr. Sellen will also discuss about his research about repatriation of cultural heritage between Canada and Mexico.

Thursday May 22, 5:00 pm

Embassy of Mexico 45 O’Connor 10th floor

(parking available in the World Exchange Plaza)

Adam T. Sellen (Mexico) is a professor of Mesoamerican Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Merida, Yucatan. He is a specialist in pre-Hispanic Oaxacan cultures and has written extensively on the iconography of ceramic effigy vessels commonly referred to as Zapotec urns. His dissertation was published by the UNAM, entitled The Shared Sky: Deified Ancestors in Zapotec Effigy Vessels (2007). His subsequent publications have focused on the genesis of Mexican museums and archaeological collecting practices, documenting the history of the local Mexican collectors, with the aim of reuniting the orphaned, decontextualized remnants of their collections. Currently on sabbatical in Toronto, he has co-organized a series of workshops on repatriation between Canada and Mexico in collaboration with Justin Jennings of the Royal Ontario Museum.

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