This conference will be held at California State University Los Angeles.
I will update with more details as they become available.
Friday, April 12, 2013
8:00 am Registration
9:30 am Opening Remarks
9:45 am Leonardo López Luján (INAH)
Urban Archaeology in Downtown Mexico City and the Proyecto Templo Mayor
10:15 am Saburo Sugiyama (Arizona State / INAH) / Tenoch Medina (INAH)
Time and space Materialized in the Templo Mayor Architecture: A New 3D Map of the Sacred Precinct of Tenochtitlan
15 minute break
11:00 am María Barajas Rocha (INAH)
Conservation of the Tlaltecuhtli Monolith and Archaeological Objects Recovered During the 7th Field Season of Proyecto Templo Mayor
11:30 am Ximena Chávez Balderas (INAH)
Effigies of the Dead: Ritual Decapitation and Skull Modification at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan
12:00 pm Amaranta Arguelles (INAH)
A Cosmogonic Ritual at the Foot of the Tenochtitlan’s Templo Mayor
12:30 pm lunch
1:45 pm Leonardo López Luján (INAH)
Tenochtitlan’s Gold: The Archaeological Collection of Proyecto Templo Mayor
2:30 pm John M.D. Pohl (UCLA)
The Toltec Ballgame: Rewards, Titles and Position in Postclassic Society
15 minute break
3:30 pm Guilhem Olivier (UNAM)
Myth and Ritual of Access to Power in the Central Part of the Codex Borgia: A Proposal
4:15 pm Manuel Aguilar-Moreno (CSULA)
The Millenialist Utopia of the Indian Jerusalem: Indian-Christian Art and Transculturation in 16th Century Mexico
5:30 pm Q & A
6 pm Reception with Mexican Snacks and Mariachi
Saturday, April 13, 2013
8:30 am Registration
9:30 am Opening Remarks
9:45 am Claudia Garcia-Des Lauriers (CalPoly Pomona)
Tlaloc on the Coast: Teotihuacan and Los Horcones, Chiapas
10:30 am Megan O’Neil (BMCC-CUNY)
Topic TBA
15 minute break
11:30 am Oswaldo Chinchilla (Yale)
Atle itlacauhca, without Flaw: The Young Gods of the Maya and Aztec
12:15 am Mary Miller (Yale)
The Bonampak Murals: A Performance at the Maya Court
1 pm lunch
2:15 pm Stephen D. Houston (Brown)
Run, Don’t Walk: Sacred Movement among the Classic Maya
3:00 pm Robert H. Cobean (INAH)
Research at Ancient Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico: The Recent INAH Projects
15 minute break
4:00 pm Karl Taube (UCR)
The Living Faces of Maize of Ancient Mesoamerica
4:45 pm Award Ceremony
5:15 pm Michael Coe (Yale)
Chocolate and the Mesoamerican Mind
6:00 pm Q & A
6:30 pm Autograph & Photograph Opportunities
REGISTER AHSMeso2013@gmail.com
ADMISSION: $15 Public / $10 All University Students / CSULA students receive an ASI discount
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