30th European Maya Conference: Bratislava, Slovakia

Registration

Please Note:

Registration for both the workshops and the symposium is now open.

An inaugural talk "Time in the Maya World," will be given by Harri Kettunen, Felix Kupprat, Jakub Špoták, and Marc Zender  on Monday, November 24st.

The workshop lineup (November 25-27) is as follows:

Beginners’ Workshop: "An Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs and Calendars"

Jakub Špoták, Eva Jobbová, Kristína Lopušanová & Iveta Puchovanová

Intermediate Workshop: "Deep Time and the (Grand) Long Count"

Marie Botzet & Dimitrios Markianos-Daniolos

Advanced Workshop: "Ancient Maya Astronomy and Timekeeping"

Marc Zender, Felix Kupprat, Harri Kettunen & Albert Davletshin

Special Workshop: "Fragmentos que hablan, el lenguaje de la cerámica maya"

Dora Maritza García Patzán & Socorro del Pilar Jiménez Álvarez

Presentations will be given during the symposium (November 28-29) by the following speakers :

• Marc Zender: Some Epigraphic Thoughts About Ancient Maya Astronomy (keynote talk)
• Harri Kettunen, Jakub Špoták & Marc Zender: Time in Mesoamerica (introduction to the theme of the conference)
• Milan Kováč: Primeras manifestaciones del arte monumental en Petén: el inicio de la tradición de estelas (Early Manifestations of Monumental Art in Petén: The Beginning of the Stela Tradition)
• Jan Szymański & Julia Przedwojewska-Szymańska: The White Line that Divides Time: Archaeology of the “Before” and “After” of the Ilopango Eruption in El Salvador
• Cristina Gonzalez-Esteban & James Bacon: Time to Consider Time: How Settlement Studies Can Effectively Integrate Chronological Data Through Digital Technologies
• Mirko De Tomassi: Reconstructing the Timeline of Deposition Sequences in Reopened Collective Burials at Palenque, Chiapas
• Francesca Glanville-Wallis: The Soils of Time: A Geoarchaeological Approach to Urban Settlement at Lamanai, Belize
• Dora Maritza García Patzán: Depósitos cerámicos a través del tiempo en Uaxactun y su región noreste: Un análisis del ritualismo del Preclásico al Clásico
• Socorro del Pilar Jiménez Álvarez: Entre ríos, costa y el interior: Estilos cerámicos de la pasta fina en el Área Maya
• Armando Anaya Hernández: Temporal Dimensions of Settlement Patterns in Calakmul: Toward a Chronology of Urban and Agrarian Landscapes
• Nikol Quardová & Jakub Špoták:Binding the Time: Power and Symbolism in the Initial Series Introductory Glyph
• Nancy Martínez: Feeling Time: Ephemerality as Meaning-Bearing Quality of Writing
• William Humberto Mex-Albornoz: An Approach to the Use and Symbolism of the 260-Day Count Among the Classic Maya
• Catherine Nuckols: The “Burden of Time:” A Reconsideration of Full-Figure Glyphs as Carriers of Time
• Christophe Helmke: Reckoning Deep Time: A Mythological Baktun 12 Text from Tulix Mul, Belize
• Albert Davletshin & Sergei Vepretskii: Non-numerical Glyphs D of the Lunar Series in Classic Maya Inscriptions
• Andreas Fuls: Dating of Astronomical Phenomena in the Dresden Codex and Beyond
• Jakub Špoták: Tracing the Movement of Constellations: Evidence for a Possible Second 364-day Calendar Table in the Paris Codex
• Natalie Korobzow: A Database for the Study of the Co-Evolution of Vigesimal Numeral Systems and the Calendar in Mesoamerica
• Jan Naumenko & Sergei Vepretskii: Breaking the Lunar Code: Astronomy and Mathematics of Classic Maya Supplementary Series
• Bruce Love: To Honor the Ancestors: How a Review of the Daykeepers’ Craft Over Two Thousand Years Might Resolve the Correlation Question
• Victor Castillo: Layers of Conquest and Revival: The Chronologies of the Postclassic Maya Highlands
• John Chuchiak: Apocalyptic Visions of Freedom: The Prophetic Roots of Colonial Maya Rebellions, 1546–1790

Please register through our online registration portal:

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Online Registration Fees (until 18 November 2025)

	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 18 November 2025 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 €