Tulane Maya Symposium Program

Exhibit Opening, Talk and Reception

Mexican Cultural Institute
Suite 118
901 Convention Center Blvd. (entrance on Andrew Higgins Blvd.)

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Pursuing Detail: 1930 Tulane's Expedition to Uxmal
Laura Gilabert Sansalvador, Universitat Politècnica de València

This event is free and open to the public.

 

Workshops

Dinwiddie Hall, Tulane University
6823 St. Charles Avenue

Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs Workshop
This workshop will focus on the basics of Maya hieroglyphic writing.

10:00 am – 10:15 am
Welcome Remarks

10:15 am – 12:00 pm
Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs, part I
Emily Davis-Hale & Rubén Morales Forte, Tulane University

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Introduction to Maya Hieroglyphs, part II
Emily Davis-Hale & Rubén Morales Forte, Tulane University

 

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Keynote address and reception

New Orleans Museum of Art
One Collins Diboll Circle, City Park

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Mapping Inequality: Lessons from Central Mexico
Barbara E. Mundy, Robertson Chair in Latin American Art, Tulane University

7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Reception

The keynote address is free and open to the public.

Symposium

Freeman Auditorium
Tulane University
7018 Plum St.

8:00 am
Registration & Check-in
Light breakfast and coffee provided.

8:45 am
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Marcello Canuto, Director, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University

9:00 am
Preclassic Maya Societies and the Question of Inequality
Felix Kupprat, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Kathryn Reese-Taylor, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary
Debra Walker, Florida Museum of Natural History

9:40 am
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Political Consolidation and Collapse in the Southeastern Maya Lowlands
Nicholas Carter, Department of Anthropology, Texas State University

10:20 am
Coffee Break

10:40 am
Inequality of What? Multiple Paths to the Good life
Scott Hutson, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky

11:20 am
Quality of Life and Political Change in the Western Maya Lowlands: Classic Period Transitions at Altar de Sacrificios
Jessica L. Munson, Department of Anthropology/Sociology and Archaeology, Lycoming College

12:00 pm
LUNCH
Lunch will be served in Dinwiddie Hall, 1st floor
6823 St. Charles Ave.

2:00 pm
2000 years of Wealth Inequality in the Maya Lowlands: House Size, Settlement Patterns, and Social Organization through Time
Amy Thompson, Department of Geography & the Environment, The University of Texas at Austin

2:40 pm
Human Plunder: The Role of Maya Slavery and Inequality in Postclassic and Early Conquest Era Yucatan, 1450-1550
John F. Chuchiak IV, History Department, Missouri State University

3:20 pm
Coffee Break

3:40 pm
Inequality and Suppression: Tracing Ritual Demise among the Ch’orti’ Maya
Kerry Hull, Department of Religion, Brigham Young University

4:20 pm
Otra Justicia: Maya Survivors' Struggle for Justice After the Acteal Massacre
Claudia Chávez Argüelles, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University

6:00 pm
Reception
Park View Historic Hotel
7004 St. Charles Avenue

 

Dinwiddie Hall
Tulane University
6823 St. Charles Ave.

Morning

9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Forum

Reconsidering Classic Maya Captivity
Marc Zender, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University

10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Lagniappe talk

Middle Preclassic Interactions in the Middle Usumacinta Region: A View from Aguada Fénix
Verónica Amellali Vázquez López, Middle American Research Institute/Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University

12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
LUNCH
Lunch will be provided on the 3rd floor of Dinwiddie Hall. The M.A.R.I. Gallery will be open for viewing throughout the lunch break.

Afternoon

Workshop Set I

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Reawakening Tunica: a Recently ‘Sleeping’ Language of Louisiana
Judith Maxwell, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Lidar Workshop A: Modeling Land and Water with Lidar-Derived Terrain Models
Luke Auld-Thomas, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University

Workshop Set II

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Lidar Workshop B: Assessing Architecture and Inequality through Lidar in the Southern Maya Lowlands
Laura Gilabert Sansalvador, Universitat Politècnica de València
Francisco Estrada-Belli, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Introduction to the Ch’orti’ Maya Language
Kerry Hull, Department of Religion, Brigham Young University