Welcome to Tulane University’s
Maya Symposium webpage. Since 2002, Tulane
University has hosted a weekend of talks and workshops dedicated
to the study of
the Maya civilization of Mexico and Central America. This yearly
meeting has
called upon scholars from a wide spectrum of specialties—epigraphy,
archaeology, art history, linguistics, history, and cultural
anthropology—to elucidate the many facets of this fascinating
Mesoamerican culture. In developing a broad approach to
the subject matter, we aim to draw the interest of a wide ranging
group of people—from the expert to the beginner.
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2010
Maya Symposium and Workshop
Great River Cities of the Ancient
Maya
February 26-28, 2010
New Orleans Museum of Art and
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
Go to 2010 Program |
The Middle
American Research Institute and the Stone
Center for Latin American Studies
are proud to present the Seventh Annual Tulane Maya Symposium
and Workshop. This year’s symposium titled “Great
River Cities of the Ancient Maya” will focus on new
research being conducted at the famous and important Maya
“River Cities.”
This year, under its new director, Marcello
A. Canuto, MARI will take the reins in organizing the Maya
Symposium. In collaboration with the Stone Center for Latin
American Studies and the New
Orleans Museum of Art, we hope to develop a diverse set
of activities and topics for the symposium’s participants
and attendees for many years to come. As MARI returns to its
new facilities in the Fall of 2010, we plan to expand the
scope and range of activities offered by the Symposium.
In keeping with tradition, this year’s Maya Symposium
will incorporate a wide variety of specialties such as epigraphy,
archaeology, and art history to explore the research being
conducted on the ancient lowland Maya civilizations. The “River
Cities” of the ancient Maya provided lowland access
to the resource-rich highlands, as well as contact with both
the Caribbean and Gulf coats. This conference will use this
interdisciplinary approach to focus on how and why the great
river cities of the ancient lowland Maya represent some of
the most intriguing, opulent, and important segments of this
civilization.
Activities will include a keynote lecture hosted at the New Orleans Museum of Art by Dr.
David Freidel, a viewing of their Precolumbian collection, workshops on the significance of water
and rivers in ancient Maya culture, workshops on hieroglyphs
and iconography, and much more. We invite you to join us in
New Orleans, LA, February 26-28, 2010 at Tulane University
and the New Orleans Museum of Art to learn of the recent developments
in Maya studies as they relate to the broader topic of Mesoamerican
studies.
Learn more about the
2010 Meetings
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