31st European Maya Conference: Paris, France
Registration
Please Note:
Registration for both the workshops and the symposium is now open.
An inaugural talk “Cuerpo, retrato y agencia en el arte maya,” will be given by Erik Velásquez García (UNAM) on December 7th before the workshops start.
The workshop lineup (December 07-09) is as follows:
Beginners’ Glyph Workshop: “An Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs”
Marie Botzet (Bonn University), Felix Kupprat (UNAM) & Dimitrios Markianos-Daniolos (Bonn University)
Intermediate-to-Advanced Glyph Workshop: “Exploring Agency in Ancient Maya Writing and Art” – SOLD OUT
Marc Zender (Tulane University)
Special Workshop 1: “Maya Imagery: Support, Materiality, and Spatiality / Imágenes Mayas: Soporte, materialidad y espacialidad”
Daniel Salazar Lama (Archaïos) & Ana García Barrios (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid)
Special Workshop 2: “Mesoamerican Foodways / Tradiciones culinarias en Mesoamérica”
Dora Maritza García Patzán (Comenius University), Fátima Tec Pool (Comenius University), Verónica Amellali Vázquez López (UCL) & Harri Kettunen (University of Helsinki)
Presentations will be given during the symposium (December10-11) by the following speakers :
- Harri Kettunen (University of Helsinki), Marc Zender (Tulane University), Marie Chosson (INALCO / SEDYL) & Valentina Vapnarsky (CNRS – LESC; EPHE), Caroline Cunil (EHESS), Chloé Andrieu (CNRS–ArchAm) & Daniel Salazar Lama (Archaïos): Introductory Lectures on “Agency”
- Jaime Awe (Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University): The Use of Spoliated Monuments as Agents of Power, Sacrality, and Memory in Western Belize
- Caitlin Earley (Johns Hopkins University): Bound, Beheaded, Buried: Captive Sculpture Persons in Late Classic Maya Art
- Christophe Helmke (University of Copenhagen): Making Ancestors? Agency and the Relationship between the Living and the Dead in a Classic Maya Household
- Nancy Martínez (University of California, Los Angeles): Gifts of Fur and Bark: Nonhuman Materiality as Authorship in Codices
- Héctor Xol Ch’ok (Independent Researcher / Ajtz’ib’ab’ Mam): Agentividad de las máscaras rituales en la cultura q’eqchi
- Kerry Hull (Brigham Young University): When Birds Decide: Mechanisms of Non-Human Agency in Ancient and Contemporary Maya Prognostication
- Romain Denimal Labeguerie (LESC-EREA, Université Paris Nanterre): Transducciones del “Tzuultaq’a” a “Madre Tierra” y “lugar sagrado” en comunidades q’eqchi’ del Petén contemporáneo
- Alejandro Garay Herrera (University of Bonn): A Ghost in the Forest: The Colonial Lacandones in the Memory of the Highland Maya Peoples of Guatemala
- Lisa Audureau (LESC-EREA): Jugando con el género: cómo los niños mayas yucatecos dan forma a su socialización.
- Honorine Guichard (Université de Laval): No debemos salvar la lengua, sino a los hablantes: El papel de la música en la preservación de la cultura maya en Yucatán y Quintana Roo
- Marc Zender (Tulane University): Reconsidering Classic Maya Captivity
- Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos (Yale University): Tonatiuh and the Tlaxcalteca: Indigenous Agency during the Spanish Invasion of Mexico
- Giulia Cantisani (École pratique des hautes études): Cuerpos vulnerables. Limitar la agentividad nociva de los espíritus entre los otomíes de la Sierra (México)
- Morgane Thro (Sorbonne Université, Centre André-Chastel): Más allá de la imposición: recrear y transformar el mundo en la Nueva España
- Iyaxel Cotjí Ren (University of Texas at Austin): Gobernar juntos: La relación dinámica entre la agencia de los linajes gobernantes y el gobierno colectivo en Kajyub’ y otros ejemplos del altiplano Maya
Please register through our online registration portal:
Wayeb Members
For Wayeberos who manage their membership online.
Please, indicate in the “Additional information” zone which workshop you want to attend.
Other Participants
For all who are not Wayeb members and don’t benefit from the member discount.
Please, indicate in the “Additional information” zone which workshop you want to attend.
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Online Registration Fees (until 22 November 2026)
| Regular: | Student (you’ll have to present a student ID): | Wayeb: | Wayeb student (you’ll have to present a student ID): | |
| Workshop: | 90 € | 50 € | 45 € | 20 € |
| Symposium: | 90 € | 20 € | 45 € | 5 € |
| All Events: | 170 € | 50 € | 80 € | 25 € |
These fees will be available until 22 November 2026 only. There are 150 spaces for the symposium.
Please, indicate in the “Additional information” zone which workshop you want to attend.
Registration Fees (on day of arrival)
| Regular: | Student (you’ll have to present a student ID): | Wayeb: | Wayeb student (you’ll have to present a student ID): | |
| Workshop: | 120 € | 70 € | 65 € | 40 € |
| Symposium: | 120 € | 30 € | 65 € | 25 € |
| All Events: | 230 € | 100 € | 120 € | 60 € |
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