6th European Maya Conference
Recapturing Mayan Memories: Historical Representation in Text, Image and Ritual
This conference was held from December 8 through 9, 2001 at the University of Hamburg, Germany. The workshop took place December 5 to 7, 2001. The event was coordinated by the Institut für Archäologie, Arbeitsbereich (VII) – Altamerikanische Sprachen und Kulturen.
You can download the complete program of the conference and also the abstracts of the papers presented:
The papers presented at the conference were the following:
| Erik Boot Leiden University |
Mul tepal – ‘Joint Rule or Government’ at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico: Historic Reality, or not? |
| Inés de Castro Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms- Universität, Bonn |
Eugenio Arana, Comandante General of the Pacíficos del Sur, 1868-1905 |
| John F. Chuchiak IV Assumption College, Boston |
Remembering the Forbidden: Colonial Yucatec Maya Perceptions and Historical Recollections of Traditional Religion and Ritual, 1570-1700 |
| Albert Davletshin Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow |
The Becoming of the Maya Writing Historical Tradition |
| Carlos Flores London |
From Stone to Video: Postwar Inscriptions of La Violencia among Q’eqchi’ Mayas of Guatemala |
| Wolfgang Gabbert Freie Universität Berlin |
The Vicissitudes of Nation-Building: The Past of Yucatán in Nineteenth-Century Elite discourse |
| Matthias Gorissen Universität Hamburg |
Apocalypticism and Maya History in the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel: Re-thinking Time, History and Cosmology among the Maya of Yucatan |
| Thomas H. Guderjan Texas Christian University C. Colleen Hanratty Southern Methodist University |
A Thriving Non-Royal Lineage at Blue Creek: Evidence from a sequence of burials, caches and architecture |
| Stanley Guenter LaTrobe University, Melbourne |
Foliated Ajaw and the Fall of El Mirador |
| Antje Gunsenheimer Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms- Universität, Bonn |
What happens after deconstruction? Post-modern approaches to Yucatecan Ethnohistory |
| Marcus Kuhnert Universität Hamburg |
The Representation of Mythology and History in Late Preclassic and Early Classic Architecture |
| Geneviève Le Fort Bern |
Sacred versus Divine: Comments on Classic Maya Kingship |
| Megan O’Neil Yale University |
Lacanja Stela 7: The Juxtaposition of Past and Present for an Image of the Future |
| Guillermo Velázquez Ramírez Universidad de Quintana Roo |
Restauración arqueológica y reconstrucción de la memoria |
| Lorraine Williams-Beck Universidad de Campeche |
Toward resolving historical document conundrums: An archaeological interpretation of the Calkiní title |
| Ann C. Wright University of Texas at Austin |
Signs of Life: Performance of Memory and Political Agency in Ancient Mesoamerican Representations of Authenticity, Identity, and Experience |
| Marc Zender University of Calgary |
Lords of La Corona: Reconstructing the Historical Documents of ‘Site Q’ |