Maya Weekend 2009 Program

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SATURDAY A.M. TALKS  

Robert J. Sharer
University of Pennsylvania Museum
Emergent Crossroads: Preclassic Maya Civilization in the Verapaz

Karen Bassie
University of Calgary
The Sacred Landscape of Alta Verapaz

Sarah Kurnick
Ph.D candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Nourishing The Dead and The Divine: The Burkitt Censers at Penn Museum

Elin Danien
University of Pennsylvania Museum
Eccentric Archaeologists and Painted Pots: The Circuitous Path to an Exhibition

SATURDAY A.M. WORKSHOPS

Marc Zender
Peabody Museum, Harvard University
Hieroglyph Workshop - Beginners
Words and Rules: How We Read Maya Hieroglyphs Today

Inga Calvin
University of Colorado
Cultural Workshop
Of Glyphs and Pseudo-Glyphs: What is "Written" on Classic Maya Pottery

SATURDAY P.M. TALKS

Jeremy A. Sabloff
University of Pennsylvania
Maya Highland-Lowland Trade: Some New Perspectives

Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
Popol Vuh Museum and University of San Carlos
The Coastal Connection: Cacao in Verapaz and the Pacific Coast

Lynn Grant
University of Pennsylvania Museum
Connecting the Pots

Allen J. Christenson
Brigham Young University
To See With Ancient Eyes: Ancestral Vision and Highland Maya Shamanism

SATURDAY P.M. WORKSHOPS

John Harris
University of Pennsylvania Museum, Pre-Columbian Society
Hieroglyph Workshop - Intermediate
Analysis of Maya Inscriptions

John Burkhalter
Independent Scholar
Cultural Workshop
Music from the Land of the Jaguar

Dori Panzer
University of Pennsylvania Museum
Educators’ Workshop
Putting the Maya in the Classroom

SATURDAY P.M. BANQUET

Ambassador Francisco Villagrán de León

SUNDAY A.M. TALKS

Brent Woodfill
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Interregional Trade and Intercultural Communication in Northern Alta Verapaz

Erin L. Sears
Ph.D candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky
Maya Figurines Along the Water Trails of the Chixoy and Pasión

Patricia Urban, Kenyon College
and Ellen E. Bell, California State Unversity - Stanislaus
Faces of the Past: Making, Using, and Trading Mesoamerican Figurines, Whistles, and Ocarinas

Dorie Reents-Budet (presenter), Ronald L. Bishop, and M. James Blackman
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Crossroads of Tradition: Chamá-style Painted Ceramics

SUNDAY A.M. WORKSHOPS

Justin Kerr
Kerr Associates
Cultural Workshop
What’s Going On Here?

Simon Martin
University of Pennsylvania Museum
Hieroglyph Workshop - Advanced
On the Snake's Tail: Tracking the Kings of Calakmul-Dzibanche