Meetings
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.
Past meetings:
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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