20th Annual Tulane Maya Symposium
Thursday, March 5
Workshops
Third Floor Dinwiddie Hall, Tulane University
6823 St. Charles Avenue
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Sight Beyond Sight: Current GIS Methods in Mesoamerican Archaeology
Melvin Rodrigo Guzman Piedrasanta, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Collections Workshop - Title Coming Soon
Patricia Lagarde, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University
Time Coming Soon
Book and Merchandise Sale
Dinwiddie Hall, 3rd floor
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Exhibit Opening, Talk, and Reception
Mexican Cultural Institute
Suite 118
901 Convention Center Blvd. (entrance on Andrew Higgins Blvd.)
Worth a Million Words: Development and Technological Advancements in Archaeological Mapping in the Central Maya Lowlands
Melvin Rodrigo Guzman Piedrasanta, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University
Friday, March 6
Workshops
Dinwiddie Hall, Tulane University
6823 St. Charles Avenue
8:30 am – 9:00 am
Registration, Check In, Light Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Hieroglyph Forum
Marc Zender, Tulane University
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch
Lunch will be served in Dinwiddie Hall
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Books and Merchandise Sale
Dinwiddie Hall, 3rd floor
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Glyph Workshop - Title Coming Soon
Olivia Shorter, Tulane University
Ruben Morales Forte, Tulane University
Marc Zender, Tulane University
Keynote Address and Reception
New Orleans Museum of Art
One Collins Diboll Circle, City Park
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
M. Charlotte Arnauld
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Reception
The keynote address is free and open to the public
Saturday, March 7
Symposium
Lake Theater
Tulane University
McAlister Place and Willow Street
8:00 am – 8:45 am
Registration, Check In, Light Breakfast
8:45 am - 9:00 am
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Marcello Canuto, Director, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University
9:00 am
Data: Organizational Patterns of Settlement and Agriculture in Urban and Rural Areas
Francisco Estrada-Belli, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University
9:40 am
In the Heart of the Snake: the City of Dzibanché as an Imperial Capital
Alexandre Tokovinine, University of Alabama
10:20 am
Coffee Break
10:40 am
Coming Soon
Kathryn Reese-Taylor, University of Calgary
11:20 am
The Growth of Tikal: New Insights from Lidar Analysis and Ground Verification
Thomas G. Garrison, University of Texas at Austin
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lunch
Lunch will be served Patio Cassat
200 Freret St.
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Books and Merchandise Sale
Dinwiddie Hall, 3rd floor
2:00 pm
The Maya Mountain Metropolis of Caracol, Belize
Adrian S.Z. Chase, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University
2:40 pm
Households, Neighborhoods, and the Dynamics of Urbanism at Lakamha'
Arianna Campiani, SARAS Department (History, Anthropology, Religions, Art, Performing Arts), Sapienza University of Rome
Lisa M. Johnson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
3:20 pm
Coffee Break
3:40 pm
The Making of Deer Mountain: The Politics of City Building at Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Travis Stanton, University of California Riverside
4:20 pm
El Mirador’s Urbanism Reconsidered: Mapping and Archaeological Excavation of the UCF El Mirador Lidar Project (2022-2025)
Michael Callaghan, University of Central Florida
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Reception
Oak & Ale
8118 Oak St.