Meetings

Fall Mesoamerican Meeting will be Sunday, October 18 at USC.

The Fall Mesoamerican Network meeting will take place on Sunday, Oct. 18, 1-5pm at UCSD in Peterson Hall, room 102.  A reception will follow in the Social Science Research Building (SSRB. Formerly the Chemistry Research Building, CRB), room 315B.  Park in Lot P206 (which is directly south of Peterson Hall) or P207 (which is directly west of the SSRB).  Parking is free on the weekend. For map go to http://maps.ucsd.edu

Our speakers will be:

Geoffrey E. Braswell (UCSD): In the Shadow of the Pyramid:  Excavations of the Great Platform of Chichen Itza

Nancy Peniche May (UCSD): Political Organization during the Preclassic Period in Northern Yucatan: An Examination through Architecture

Megan R. Pitcavage (UCSD): Lubaantun in the Terminal Classic: Preliminary Investigations of the Toledo Regional Interaction Project

Anabel Ford (UCSB): Population and land use in the Maya area:  Using the GIS predictive modeling in the El Pilar area.

Rhonda Taube (UCSD): Quetzal-Flower Meets Xena Warrior Princess: K'iche' Performances of Female Gender in Highland Guatemala

Look forward to seeing everyone!

Janine Gasco
Dr. Janine Gasco
Associate Professor
California State University, Dominguez Hills

www.cla.csudh.edu/seproject

Past meetings:

Spring 2009 meeting, Sun., March 15, Cal State Fullerton, University Hall 252

1:10 David Cheetham (ASU, NWAF):  Ethnicity and Identity in Prehistory: An Early Olmec Case Study

1:50 Tricia Gabany-Guerrero (CSU-F):  Iconografía Michoacana: The A-O sign in the Hinterlands of Highland Mesoamerica

2:30 Robey Callahan (CSU-F):  The Role of "Dreams" in Yucatán Maya Culture

break 3:10-3:30

3:30  Pesach Lubinsky (UCR):  History and origins of vanilla cultivation in Mesoamerica

4:10  Cameron Walker (CSU-F):  The Long and Curious Relationship between Mexican Archaeology, Politics and Tourism

Note: times are approximate!!

For directions and campus map go to: www.fullerton.edu/campusmap

Park in Lot E, near University Hall (free on Sundays)

Fall 2008 Mesoamerican Network meeting, Sunday, November 16, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Speakers:

Virginia Fields (LACMA) Recontextualizing the Art of the Ancient Americas

Megan O'Neil (USC) The Lives of Ancient Maya Sculptures

Cecelia Klein (UCLA) Figurines and the Formation of the Official Aztec Pantheon

Manuel Aguilar (CSULA) Malinalco: A Place between Heaven and Earth

Ronald Loewe (CSULB) Working for Tommy Hilfiger: Article 27, Neoliberal Reform and the Death of Agriculture at the Mexican Periphery

Visit the new Art of the Ancient Americas Galleries. Museum is open from 11-8 on Nov. 16. Admission $12 ($8 for students and seniors). Parking on 6th St.

1/2 block east of Fairfax, $7.

Spring 2008 meeting

John Pohl (Fowler Museum, UCLA)

Children of the Plumed Serpent: Art and Ritual in Mesoamerica’s

Late Antiquity

Jeremy Coltman (CSU-San Bernardino)

Sustaining the Celestial Vault: A Study of the Skybearer in

Mesoamerica and the American Southwest

Danny Zborover (U. Calgary)

Putting History Back into Archaeology: The Chontalpa Historical

Archaeology Project, Oaxaca

Veronica Pacheco (UCLA)

Ethnomusicology in Action: Exploring Music and Ritual in

San Mateo del Mar, Oaxaca

Fall 2007 meeting

Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007, 1-5pm

University of California, Riverside

Watkins Hall 1350

for directions go to: www.campusmap.ucr.edu/CampusMap.php

Speakers:

Wendy Ashmore (UCR) Border Politics in Southeast Mesoamerica: Social Diversity, State Diplomacy and the Morjá Link

Karl Taube (UCR) The Breath of the Sea: Conch Symbolism in Ancient Maya Thought

Scott Fedick and Katherine Sorensen (UCR) Cosmological Basis of Community Boundary at the Ancient Maya Site of T'isil, Quintana Roo

Michael Mathiowetz (UCR) The Sun Youth of Paquimé, Chihuahua: Mesoamerican Religion and the Transition to Plaza Oriented Pueblos in the 13th Century American Southwest

Rhonda Taube (UCSD) Interaction and Integration: K'iche Maya Dance in the Age of Globalization

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