Early Maya Iconography and Script

Mesoamerica Center, University of Texas at Austin

March 16 - 19, 2010

Antigua, Guatemala

The topic for the 2010 Maya Meetings will focus on new developments in the study of early Maya iconography and writing, focusing on the sites of Kaminaljuyu, Takalik Abaj, Izapa, San Bartolo and others.
The 2010 Maya Meetings will offer a combination of learning workshops and academic lectures. Three workshops focusing on hieroglyphs and iconography will run for four days from March 16 through 19, accompanied by two courtyard lectures during each evening.
All events will take place at the Casa Herrera, the University of Texas at Austin’s new academic and conference center for Mesoamerican studies. All events are open to the public. Beginner and Advanced workshops will be offered. Registration is required.
Please visit out website

Call for Papers:

N/A

Information on Registration and Fees:

Check out the website in October for registration fees

Please, visit the official website:
http://www.utmaya.org

For further inquiries, please contact:
Paola Bueche
Senior Program Coordinator
pbueche@mail.utexas.edu
(512) 471-6292

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Great River Cities of the Ancient Maya

Middle American Research Institute, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University

February 26 - 28, 2010

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

The Middle American Research Institute and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies are proud to present the Seventh Annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshop. This year’s symposium titled “Great River Cities of the Ancient Maya” will focus on new research being conducted at the famous and important Maya “River Cities.”

This year, under its new director, Marcello A. Canuto, MARI will take the reins in organizing the Maya Symposium. In collaboration with the Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the New Orleans Museum of Art, we hope to develop a diverse set of activities and topics for the symposium’s participants and attendees for many years to come. As MARI returns to its new facilities in the Fall of 2010, we plan to expand the scope and range of activities offered by the Symposium.

In keeping with tradition, this year’s Maya Symposium will incorporate a wide variety of specialties such as epigraphy, archaeology, and art history to explore the research being conducted on the ancient lowland Maya civilizations. The “River Cities” of the ancient Maya provided lowland access to the resource-rich highlands, as well as contact with both the Caribbean and Gulf coats. This conference will use this interdisciplinary approach to focus on how and why the great river cities of the ancient lowland Maya represent some of the most intriguing, opulent, and important segments of this civilization.

Activities will include a keynote lecture hosted at the New Orleans Museum of Art by Dr. David Freidel, a viewing of their Precolumbian collection, workshops on the significance of water and rivers in ancient Maya culture, workshops on hieroglyphs and iconography, and much more. We invite you to join us in New Orleans, LA, February 26-28, 2010 at Tulane University and the New Orleans Museum of Art to learn of the recent developments in Maya studies as they relate to the broader topic of Mesoamerican studies.
(Source: Website of the Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshop)

Information on Registration and Fees:

online:
https://stonecenter.tulane.edu/registration_forms/detail/332/

mail:
Middle American Research Institute
Attn: Kathe Lawton
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
USA

Registration form available at:
http://www.tulane.edu/~mari/TMS/Files/Registration%20form%20-%202010.qxd.pdf

Fees:
Regular participant 150 $
K12 Educator/Faculty/Tulane alumni 90 $
Non U.S. Citizens 50 $
Students 40 $

Please, visit the official website:
http://www.tulane.edu/~mari/TMS/index.html

For further inquiries, please contact:
Marcello A. Canuto
- Director -
Middle American Research Institute
Newcomb Suite B03
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118-5698
Tel: +1-(504)-865-5110
Fax: +1-(504) 862-8778
E-mail: mari@tulane.edu

Kathe Lawton
- Assistant Director -
Middle American Research Institute
Newcomb Suite B03
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118-5698
Tel: +1-(504) 865-5110
Fax: +1-(504) 862-8778
Email: klawton@tulane.edu

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Junge Forschung zu Mesoamerika in Hamburg

Mesoamerikanistik, Universität Hamburg, Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg

April 16 - 18, 2010

Hamburg, Germany

(The website is still under construction, please check for updates)

Speakers include:

Sarah Albiez (M.A)
Dr. Erik Boot
Christian Brückner
Julia Dietz
Lars Frühsorge (M.A.)
Dr. Daniel Graña-Behrens
Sven Gronemeyer (M.A.)
Dr. Claudine Hartau
Miriam Heun
Prof. Dr. Viola König
Jenny Lebuhn-Chhetri
Thomas Muno
Monica Pacheco
Christin Podeyn
Dr. Elke Ruhnau
Dr. Hedda Scherres
Monique Schuster (M.A.)
Prof. Dr. Ortwin Smailus
Dr. Estella Weiss-Krejci
Prof. Dr. Gordon Whittaker
Ulrich Wölfel (M.A.)

Please, visit the official website:
http://www.8hirsch-to-go.de/

For further inquiries, please contact:
Online: http://www.8hirsch-to-go.de/Formular/kontaktformular.html

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2010 AAA Annual Meeting

American Anthropological Association (AAA)

November 17 - 21, 2010

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

In 2010, the AAA will meet in New Orleans, where the river meets the sea. New Orleans channels flows into the heart of a continent, and out across oceans, around the globe. The boundary between river and sea, between water and earth, is shifting and unclear. The circulation of people and other living organisms, of material things, and of ideas in such zones of passage constitutes some of the central social and physical processes of concern to all kinds of anthropologists, historically and in the present. New Orleans has inspired the theme of the 2010 AAA Annual Meeting: “Circulation.” This theme is meant to encourage us to think about what happens when movement is the organizing trope of our questions, methodologies, analyses and accounts. We can think in terms of circulation across time as well as space, through different organizing principles, and in a variety of shapes and forms. The idea of circulation invites us to consider what triggers, facilitates, constrains, disrupts or stops flows; what is at stake in these processes, and for whom; and what their consequences might be for humans and for the environment. It opens up questions about what exactly circulates: signs, objects or bodies. Do different things circulate in different ways? Do they change or remain constant? What new phenomena, arrangements and inequalities does circulation produce? How are resources and ways of understanding them identified, made sense of, produced and distributed in the process? How and why do rates and types of circulation vary across time and space? What crystallizes and what continues to flow and reshape? “Circulation” also invites us to think across boundaries, whether those are boundaries organizing phenomena we seek to describe and explain, boundaries within and across disciplines,
or boundaries among anthropologists or other social groups. It asks us to turn our attention to zones of encounter, conjunctions and liminal passages. It also requires us to ask whether “circulation” is a helpful trope for the production of anthropological knowledge.

What light does it shed on the (increasingly widely circulating) concept of “culture”—arguably the central organizing construct of anthropology— and on anthropology itself?We are interested in bringing together papers reflecting the perspectives of all subfields and forms of anthropological practice, or across them, investigating this theme with data, method and theory oriented to all temporal and spatial horizons. Come and participate in the circulation of ideas.
(Source: http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/upload/2010-Annual-Meeting-CFP.pdf)

Further information for download at:
http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/upload/2010-Annual-Meeting-CFP.pdf

Please, visit the official website:
http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/

For further inquiries, please contact:
Carla Fernandez
- AAA & Sections Meeting Department -
cfernandez@aaanet.org
Tel: +1-703-528-1902.

Monica Heller
- 2010 Executive Program Chair -
Tel: +1-703-528-1902
E-mail: aaaprogramchair@gmail.com

American Anthropological Association
2200 Wilson Blvd., Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22201
Tel: +1-703-528-1902
Fax: +1-703-528-3546

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Maya Women - Figures of Enduring Strength and Power

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

April 9 - 11, 2010

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

For the past quarter century, international scholars, Maya enthusiasts, artists, linguists, archaeologists and other have joined together for a lively weekend of engaging talks and programs centering around the Maya world. During the weekend, numerous other lectures and language 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.

Our 2010 Weekend theme, Maya Women ~ Figures of Enduring Strength and Power,focuses on the central role that women have always played in the social history of Maya peoples. Whether sustaining Classic era dynasties or advocating for justice in contemporary Latin America, Maya women are commanding figures. In many households, they anchor daily life and religious practice for their families and communities. Over centuries they have been pivotal figures resisting cultural annihilation, and today many have become successful political leaders and entrepreneurs.

As always, the weekend combines illustrated talks by more than a dozen world renowned scholars with engaging films, interactive hieroglyphic workshops for beginners and more advanced glyph readers-and an optional Maya banquet.
(Source: Website of Penn Museum Maya Weekend)

Information on Registration and Fees:

Regular $175
Penn Museum Members $140

Please, visit the official website:
http://www.penn.museum/college-and-adults/201-maya-weekend.html

For further inquiries, please contact:
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
USA

Tel: +1-(215) 898-4890 (Penn Museum Events Office)
E-mail: info@museum.upenn.edu

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75th Anniversary Meetings

Society for American Archaeology (SAA)

April 14 - 18, 2010

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Preliminary program available at:

http://saa.org/Portals/0/SAA/Meetings/2010preliminaryprogrampages/PrelimProgram%202010_LR.pdf

Information on Registration and Fees:

Detailed information on registration and fees at:

https://ecommerce.saa.org/saa/source/Meetings/cMeetingFunctionDetail.cfm?section=unknown&product_major=STL2010&functionstartdisplayrow=1

Please, visit the official website:
http://www.saa.org/AbouttheSociety/AnnualMeeting/tabid/138/Default.aspx

For further inquiries, please contact:
Society for American Archaeology
900 Second Street NE #12
Washington, DC 20002-3560

Tel: +1 202-789-8200
Fax: +1 202-789-0284

E-mail: meetings@saa.org

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Narrative Texts from Palenque and Yaxchilán: Regional Variants in Classic Maya Literature

Maya Society of Minnesota, Hamline University

March 5 - 7, 2010

Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

Maya Society of Minnesota presents:
Weekend Maya Hieroglyphic Workshop, back by popular demand!

We have invited our good friend and colleague Nick Hopkins to return for the weekend of March 5-7 to lead a workshop on this ancient writing form. Whether you have attended previous workshops here or at the Texas meetings or elsewhere, whether you can read some glyphs, or none at all, you will enjoy this workshop and learn from it. Registration includes the Friday lecture and workshop sessions on Saturday and Sunday.

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FRIDAY, March 5 (Lecture):
7:30 p.m.,
118 Drew Science Building,
Hamline University

"Maya Narratives, Ancient and Modern," by Nicholas Hopkins, Jaguar
Tours, Tallahassee, Florida, Epigrapher and Instructor (retired),
Florida State University.

Classic Maya hieroglyphic texts are mostly concerned with history, but they are not just lists of historical events. Rather, they are carefully crafted narratives that relate the events in a literary fashion. The characteristics of the literary style are only now becoming clear as the texts are becoming easier to read in their entirety. This talk will outline the nature of Classic narratives and point out rhetorical devices that occur repeatedly in the texts. A surprising aspect of Maya literature is that these same devices are used today by skilled storytellers, a striking example of continuity of tradition through centuries of radical change in the societies. This lecture will provide a general introduction to the weekend workshop.

SATURDAY, March 6 and SUNDAY, March 7 (Workshop):
Sat. 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Sun. 9:00 a.m.-noon,
Giddens Learning Center 100E
Hamline University.

Hieroglyphic Workshop – Narrative Texts from Palenque and Yaxchilán: Regional Variants in Classic Maya Literature,
with Nick Hopkins,


This workshop will focus on regional variants in Classic Maya literature by studying narrative hieroglyphic texts from Palenque and Yaxchilán.
The workshop will begin with an overview of glyphic structures, using images representing both sounds and ideas. Then, Nick will lead us through a hands-on reading of several texts from Palenque and Yaxchilán.
Colored pencils and handouts will be provided! The workshop will no
doubt include a refresher lesson on Maya numbers and calendrics, and we may even have some singing and dancing as we complete the reading of the featured texts.
(Source: VerLaine Henn / AZTLAN)

Information on Registration and Fees:

Fee structure for Lecture and Hieroglyphic workshop:

Lecture
members and students - free
visitors - $5

Workshop
(preregister by Feb 22 for a $10 discount off of these prices)
Maya Society Members: $75
Currently Enrolled Students: $45
K-12 teachers: $55
Non members: $85
Members of other Mesoamerican Societies qualify for member pricing.

Download registration form here:
http://www.hamline.edu/mayasociety/Hieroglyphic_Workshop_2010_REGISTRATION_FORM.pdf

Please, visit the official website:
http://www.hamline.edu/mayasociety/March_2010_hieroglyphic_workshop.htm

For further inquiries, please contact:
For more information contact:
VerLaine Henn

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Centro Studi Americanistici “Circolo Amerindiano”

May 4 - 10, 2010

Perugia, Italy

List of Topics:

1. Olmec studies: Olmec and post-Olmec
2. Ethnoarcheology, anthropology, ethnography... The ethnoarcheology from the research in the Americas
3. The missionary enterprise in the american continent: some notes of anthropology, history and history of religions
4. Colonial Art in the Latin America
5. Indigenous Amazonia
6. Indigenous rights: a transnational discussion
7. Signs, symbols and dynamics of construction of the indigenous territory
8. Languages and linguistic problems of indigenous America
9. Recent experiences of strengthening the linguistic identity and language revival in Latin America
10. Migrations and identity pathways throughout the American continent
11. Faces and images of the Americas: between genocide and ethnic ransom
12. American literatures: Mario Benedetti, exilios y desexilios
13. Literature of the Americas: non-thematic session
14. Ethnomusicology: survival, continuity and new contributions of the music and traditional dances in America
15. Imaginary and memory: cultural studies
16. Topics of medical anthropology in the American continent
17. Food and culture in indigenous America: archaeology, history and anthropology
18. History and education in America
19. Public policies, institutions and democracy in Latin America
20. Anthropology of globalization: transnatonalism, multiculturality, aterritoriality and cultural security
21. Non-thematic panel

Please, visit the official website:
http://www.amerindiano.org/convegno_1.asp?idconv=32&lingo=eng

For further inquiries, please contact:
Centro Studi Americanistici “Circolo Amerindiano” Onlus
Via Guardabassi n. 10 - C.P. 249
06123 Perugia
ITALIA

Tel/Fax: + 39-075-5720716
E-mail: info@amerindiano.org

http://www.amerindiano.org

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