Ancient America Museum Exhibitions,
Lectures and Conferences
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April 26-29, 2012
Davidson, NC
Cultural Continuity in Central Mexico
A Symposium in Homage to Alfredo López Austin
California State University, Los Angeles
February 10-11, 2012
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"In the Time of the Maya"
Tulane University and the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
February 24-26, 2012
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In keeping with tradition, this year's Maya Symposium will incorporate a wide variety of specialties such as epigraphy, archaeology, linguistics, and art history to explore the research being conducted on the ancient Maya civilization. Through a series of lectures and workshops, specialists at next year’s symposium will create a long view of the millennia of continuous cultural development of Maya civilization. To celebrate the nature of Maya society throughout this long period, the symposium presenters will conduct a "baktun count" to recount the full history of Maya society from the time of mythical creation up to the present day. Each speaker will cover a single baktun (period of ca. 400 years) and summarize the ways in which the Maya both innovated and resisted change. In this way, we will travel methodically through time to learn how from their past, the Maya have and will face the future. The 2012 symposium promises to be a memorable weekend spent exploring and discussing this intriguing and important anthropological topic.
Hosted by Tulane University's Middle American Research Institute and Stone Center for Latin American Studies. For further information about the program, please visit: http://mari.tulane.edu/TMS/index.html. |
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A Symposium Celebrating the Ancient Maya Creation Myth
in Literature, Iconography, Epigraphy, Ethnohistory and Archaeology
University of California, Merced, COB 105
March 2-3, 2012
Free and open to the public
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The Popol Vuh of the ancient Maya is one of the oldest and most complete Precolumbian literary texts to survive the Spanish Conquest. The text has been translated over 82 times, into European and Maya languages as well as Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. Its elegant poetry has been compared to the Iliad and Odyssey of Greece or the Ramayana of India. It is commonly referred to as the Maya "Bible" and the analogy is well-earned, as it is in fact "biblical" in its temporal depth and overarching cosmological foundations. But here the comparison ends as it is demonstratively an ancient text, parts of which can be traced to the Preclassic period. The text has become a valuable resource in understanding ancient Maya cosmology, myth and religion, and provides a window into the soul of ancient Maya people by giving us a glimpse into their values, morals, and beliefs. This symposium celebrates the Popol Vuh and the scholarship that the text has inspired.
Presenters: Gerardo Aldana, Jaime Awe, Ellen Bell, Oswaldo Chinchilla, Allen Christenson, David Freidel, Julia Guernsey, Nathan Henne, Barbara MacLeod, Holley Moyes, and Dorie Reents-Budet Keynote address: Michael Coe Sponsored by University of California, Merced Center for Research in Humanities and Arts. Contact: Holley Moyes Website: http://crha.ucmerced.edu/node/1 |
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Ancient Mexico, Modernity, and the Literary Avant-Garde
California State University, Los Angeles
May 4-5, 2012
May 4-6, 2012
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For almost 30 years, international scholars, Maya enthusiasts, artists, linguists, archaeologists, and others have joined together for a lively weekend of engaging talks and programs centering on the Maya world. During the weekend, numerous lectures and workshops provide opportunities for attendees to learn about Maya culture and current archaeological work at Maya sites. Participants can expect a rich intellectual experience—and activity choices—as the weekend provides diverse opportunities for engagement. Next spring, we will address the contemporary fascination with the year 2012, while focusing on the history and culture of the Maya. The exhibition, which officially opens on May 5, will include remarkable finds, many excavated from the site of Copan.
Held in conjunction with the opening of the special ticketed exhibition "Maya 2012: Lords of Time." Special ehibition preview for weekend attendees on Friday afternoon! Save the date now, and stay tuned for more information and the list of speakers and workshops. Program brochures with full details will be mailed in January. |
"Mesoamerica and the Southwest: A New History for an Ancient Land"
On-Site in Mexico, Arizona and New Mexico
June 17 - July 23, 2012
Application deadline: March 1, 2012
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Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and sponsored by The Community College Humanities Association (CCHA), this five-week Institute, held on-site in locations in Mexico and the U.S. Southwest, will enable twenty-four faculty participants to explore the rapidly accumulating new collaborative scholarship by investigators in both Mesoamerican studies and Southwestern studies.
Institute seminars, discussions and on-site field study with renowned visiting specialist scholars in Mexico and in the Southwest together provide a compelling format for the selected Institute Summer Fellows directly to engage with the "new history for an ancient land." Site visits enable Fellows to evaluate for themselves at first hand the similarities and differences between such Mesoamerican sites as Teotihuacan and the Aztec Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, and Southwestern sites such as Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde and Aztec Ruins — in terms of commonalities and differences in architecture, site design, iconography, and hypothesized worldviews and religious and ceremonial systems. Stipend: Participants receive all lodging, internal travel and site-visit costs for all scheduled activities during the Institute as specified in the detailed Daily Schedule, along with a few pre-arranged meals. Participants are responsible for all other meal expenses; for personal expenses; and for their own individual travel arrangements to arrive in Mexico City by Sunday, June 17, 2012 and for return from Santa Fe anytime after July 23, 2012. [Note: "Mesoamerica and the Southwest" is being held on-site in Mexico, Arizona and New Mexico, with all logistics pre-arranged and pre-paid by CCHA; thus, most of the grant stipend monies are pooled to cover participant travel, lodging and other logistical expenses of the Institute. Balance from these expenses is paid directly to fellows as a cash stipend to help defray travel costs.] For further details and Application Information please visit our website at www.ccha-assoc.org/MesoSW12/index.html Institute Faculty: John Pohl (Curator of the Arts of the Americas, the UCLA Fowler Museum); Karl Taube (Anthropology, University of California at Riverside); Eloise Quiñones Keber (Art, Baruch College and the Graduate Center of CUNY); Alan Sandstrom (Anthropology emeritus, Indiana-Purdue University); Kelley Hays-Gilpin (Archaeology, Northern Arizona University and Research Associate, Museum of Northern Arizona) with Ramson Lomatewama; Stephen Lekson (Curator of Anthropology, Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado); F. Kent Reilly (University of Southwest Texas); Ramón Gutiérrez (U.S. History, University of Chicago; Fran Levine (director of the New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe); Donna Glowacki (Anthropology, University of Notre Dame) For additional information you may also contact one of the Project Co-Directors: Dr. George Scheper (Humanities, Community College of Baltimore County and Faculty Associate, Advanced Academic Programs, The Johns Hopkins University) (shepbklyn@aol.com) Dr. Laraine Fletcher (Chair, Anthropology, Adelphi University) (fletcher@adelphi.edu or larainefletcher@aol.com) Or contact the Project Manager: Prof. David Berry, Executive Director of CCHA, the Community College Humanities Association) (tel. 973-877-3204; berry@essex.edu). |
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Balancing the Cosmos
Available on DVD
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Maya Exploration Center
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The Maya Exploration Center (MEC) was founded in Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, by alumni of the INAH-PARI-CHAAAC Palenque Cross Group Project. MEC is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of ancient Maya civilization through travel courses, lecture series, and education programs teaching students, educators, and the general public about the ancient Maya. For more information, visit:
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