Meetings
Winter 2011
Mesoamerican Network meeting
Sunday, February 20th, Cal State LA
1-5pm, King Hall, lecture room 1
PAST MEETINGS
Spring 2010 Mesoamerican Network meeting
Sunday, March 14, Cal State LA
1-5pm, King Hall, lecture room 1
James E. Brady & Christophe Helmke (CSU-LA): New Evidence for the Involvement of Caves in Ancient Maya Warfare
Jeremy Coltman (CSU-LA): The Waterlily Serpent and the Classic Maya Gods of Wind and Water
Shankari Patel (UCR): Moving Through Subaltern Spaces: Religious Practice and Gender Ideologies in Postclassic Mesoamerica
John Pohl (UCLA): Nahua-Mixtec stylistic and narrative influences in the Aztatla ceramic tradition of West Mexico.
Manuel Aguilar (CSU-LA): A New Look at Aztec Human Sacrifice
Parking will be available in Lot C directly across from the Luckman fine arts complex. Purchase a day permit from the kiosk. For more information go to http://www.calstatela.edu/univ/maps/cslamap.php
Other events of interest:
Mayan Tasting Dinner
We're having a very special event and you're invited! Please join us on Friday Feb 19th, 2010 at 3655 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles,CA 90007 as our guest for our Mayan Tasting Dinner!
This will be an 8 course dinner made entirely with indiginous mayan ingredients and recipes. It's different from our more contemporary Yucatan style food which is a mixture of Maya & Spanish.
Reservations are required. (213) 741 1075
Gilberto Cetina, Chef/Owner Chichen Itza Restaurant
The Mesoamerican Society
and co-sponsor The Art History Society
present renowned Maya Epigrapher,
Anthropologist and Translator of the Paris Codex
Dr. Bruce Love
3-Day Workshop: Learn to Read and Write Maya Glyphs
Open to All: $15 General Public (includes Workbook); CSULA Students $8 Advance, $10 @ Door
Feb 19: 6-9 pm • Feb 20: 9 am-12 pm & 2-6 pm • Feb 21: 10-1:30 pm.
Spring 2010 Mesoamerican Network meeting
Sunday, March 14, Cal State LA
1-5pm, King Hall, lecture room 1
James E. Brady & Christophe Helmke (CSU-LA): New Evidence for the Involvement of Caves in Ancient Maya Warfare
Jeremy Coltman (CSU-LA): The Waterlily Serpent and the Classic Maya Gods of Wind and Water
Shankari Patel (UCR): Moving Through Subaltern Spaces: Religious Practice and Gender Ideologies in Postclassic Mesoamerica
John Pohl (UCLA): Nahua-Mixtec stylistic and narrative influences in the Aztatla ceramic tradition of West Mexico.
Manuel Aguilar (CSU-LA): A New Look at Aztec Human Sacrifice
Parking will be available in Lot C directly across from the Luckman fine arts complex. Purchase a day permit from the kiosk. For more information go to http://www.calstatela.edu/univ/maps/cslamap.php
Other events of interest:
Mayan Tasting Dinner
We're having a very special event and you're invited! Please join us on Friday Feb 19th, 2010 at 3655 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles,CA 90007 as our guest for our Mayan Tasting Dinner!
This will be an 8 course dinner made entirely with indiginous mayan ingredients and recipes. It's different from our more contemporary Yucatan style food which is a mixture of Maya & Spanish.
Reservations are required. (213) 741 1075
Gilberto Cetina, Chef/Owner Chichen Itza Restaurant
The Mesoamerican Society
and co-sponsor The Art History Society
present renowned Maya Epigrapher,
Anthropologist and Translator of the Paris Codex
Dr. Bruce Love
3-Day Workshop: Learn to Read and Write Maya Glyphs
Open to All: $15 General Public (includes Workbook); CSULA Students $8 Advance, $10 @ Door
Feb 19: 6-9 pm • Feb 20: 9 am-12 pm & 2-6 pm • Feb 21: 10-1:30 pm.
Make your reservation at mesoamericansociety@gmail.com
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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
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Spring 2009 meeting, Sun., March 15, Cal State Fullerton, University Hall 252
break
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
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:
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
1/2 block east of
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Spring 2008 meeting
John
Pohl (
Children of the Plumed Serpent: Art and Ritual
in
Late Antiquity
Jeremy
Coltman (CSU-San Bernardino)
Sustaining the Celestial Vault: A
Study of the Skybearer in
Danny
Zborover (U.
Putting History Back into
Archaeology: The Chontalpa Historical
Archaeology Project,
Veronica
Pacheco (UCLA)
Ethnomusicology in Action: Exploring
Music and Ritual in
San Mateo
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Fall 2007 meeting
Watkins Hall 1350
for directions go to: www.campusmap.ucr.edu/CampusMap.php
Speakers:
Wendy Ashmore
(UCR) Border Politics in
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
Rhonda Taube (UCSD) Interaction and Integration: K'iche Maya Dance in the Age of Globalization
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