MAYA SOCIETY LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS:

FALL 2009 – SPRING 2010

Click on the hot links below to view more detailed descriptions for each spring 2009 Maya Society event.

 

OCTOBER 2009

  • October 9 Lecture – Style Matters: Classic Maya Pottery and Nuclear Chemistry by Dorie Reentz-Budet 

  • October 10 Workshop – The Fabrics of Classic Maya Politics, Economics and Ideology by Dorie Reents-Budet

NOVEMBER 2009

  • November 20 Lecture – Performing Rulership during the Late Preclassic: Landscape, Themes, and Symbols from the Pacific Piedmont by Julia Guernsey

  • November 21 Workshop – Stepping Back in Time: Middle Preclassic Ritual and Power at La Blanca by Julia Guernsey

 

SPRING 2010

FEBRUARY 2010

  • February 5 Lecture – Shifting Alliances and Classic Period Politics: The Archaeology of the Mirador Group at El Perú-Waka’, Petén, Guatemala by Michelle Rich

  • February 6 Workshop – What Can We Learn from Ancient Maya Tombs?:  A Case Study of Royal Burials from El Perú-Waka’? by Michelle Rich

MARCH 2010

  • March 5, 6, and 7 – Lecture and Hieroglyphic Workshop with Nicholas Hopkins -- details to be announced

APRIL 2010

  • April 9 Lecture – Embodying Slippage: An Exploration of Captive Portraits and Spectatorship in Classic Maya Art by Kaylee Spencer
 

All spring lectures are Fridays 7:30 pm in Drew Science 118 (south of Old Main), Hamline University and are free to Maya Society members and students, $5 nonmembers. Workshops are Saturdays 9:00 am-Noon in Giddens Learning Center 6s (the Anthropology Lab), Hamline University (southeast corner of Hewitt and Snelling), St. Paul. Workshops are $10 for members, $20 for nonmembers, free for students.

For a campus map, see: http://www.hamline.edu/visitors/PDF/campus_map.pdf
 

Unless otherwise indicated, all lectures are in Drew Science Building and workshops are in Giddens Learning Center.  You can download PDF versions of a color map showing Maya Society venues on Hamline Campus, or download the black-and-white map.  Parking is free on campus lots after 4:00 pm during the week and all day on weekends.

 

Programs are co-sponsored by Hamline University’s Department of Anthropology and are made possible through the generous support of MSM members and friends.  For more information, contact Skip Messenger (951)-475-9149, smessenger@hamline.edu.
 

Return to Home Page.