Global Excellence in Interpretation

Free Webinar Series

While interpreters have shifted to digital communication through online webinars and meetings, interpreters' professional associations around the world have increased their activity, developing and providing online services to members, including training, conferences, one-off events, and more. This accelerated trend has given us an opportunity to share good practice more widely across the world, with interpreters from different countries and indeed different continents joining events of interest to them. This series will develop a pilot international webinar series, under the banner of the Global Alliance for Heritage Interpretation.

This yearlong series of webinars hosted by seven interpretation organizations around the world is free to all interpreters, regardless of membership or affiliation with any of the sponsor organizations! English-Spanish live translation will be available.

UP NEXT

Fabrics and Stitches: How to Approach to a Distant Heroic Past
InterpatMX
Thursday, October 5, 2023
2:00pm Pacific / 4:00pm Eastern
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Sometimes we have great accounts and chronicles of a distant past. However, it is not easy to turn them into images that can help the visitors, specially the younger ones, to picture how the events happened. In this talk we will present an exercise done at the Templo Mayor Museum using fabric and stitches who talk to children about one of the most sensitive chapters in Mexican history: the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Mexica (Aztec) Empire.

Patricia is an archaeologist with a Master’s Degree in Heritage Management from the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) in Mexico City, with the Dissertation "The Lost Treasure of Cuauhtémoc. Leisure time and joy when using the archaeological Heritage".

Since 2010 she has lectured undergraduate students on Archaeological and Historical subjects related with Heritage preservation and legal protection, the epistemology of Archaeology and the Interpretation of heritage and other Museum studies subjects. In 2014 she became the curator of the Templo Mayor Museum, and in 2015 was appointed its Director, a position she currently holds.

She has published two books, one of which won a INAH award, as well as papers about theArchaeology of the Basin of Mexico during the Postclasic period, and also on Heritage and Museums. She has curated exhibitions and was editor of their catalgoues including the ones on"Tetzáhuitl, the Omens of the Conquest" and "Coyolxauhqui"; she has done guided visits forDiplomatic guests at the Museum, made scripts for TV documentaries about historical subjects and dictated seminars about the Aztecs, among other activities.

A veces tenemos grandes relatos y crónicas de un pasado lejano. Sin embargo, no es fácil convertirlas en imágenes que puedan ayudar a los visitantes, especialmente a los más jóvenes, a imaginar cómo sucedieron los hechos. En esta charla presentaremos un ejercicio realizado en el Museo del Templo Mayor (México) utilizando telas y puntadas para hablar a los niños sobre uno de los capítulos más sensibles de la historia de México: la conquista española de Tenochtitlán, la capital del Imperio Mexica (Azteca).

Patricia es arqueóloga con Maestría en Gestión del Patrimonio de la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH) de la Ciudad de México, con la Tesis “El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtémoc. Tiempo libre y alegría al utilizar el Patrimonio arqueológico”.

Desde 2010 ha impartido clases a estudiantes de licenciatura sobre temas Arqueológicos e Históricos relacionados con la preservación y protección jurídica del Patrimonio, la epistemología de la Arqueología y la Interpretación del Patrimonio y otras materias de estudios museísticos. Es directora del Museo del Templo Mayor desde 2015.

Ha publicado dos libros, uno de los cuales ganó un premio INAH, así como artículos sobre Arqueología de la Cuenca de México durante el Posclásico, y también sobre Patrimonio y Museos. Ha curado exposiciones y fue editora de sus catálogos, entre ellos los de "Tetzáhuitl, los presagios de la conquista" y "Coyolxauhqui"; ha realizado visitas guiadas para invitados diplomáticos al Museo, realizado guiones para documentales de televisión sobre temas históricos y dictado seminarios sobre los aztecas, entre otras actividades.

UPCOMING WEBINARS

Titles, descriptions, and times are forthcoming. 

International Panel
November 16

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