[Aztlan] Wayeb News

[Christian M. Prager]

Dear Listeros

The Wayeb Website has been updated. New features include information and registration for the 12th European Conference and a new Wayeb Note (ISSN 1379-8286) by Brian Stross. Here are the details.

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12th European Maya Conference

Please notice that WAYEB has recently posted on its website (follow this links http://www.wayeb.org/indexemcdirect.htm) 'online registration', the programme, and other conference-related features of 12th European Maya Conference to be held in Geneva, Switzerland from December 3-8, 2007. The two-day symposium (December 7-8) is entitled "The Maya and their Sacred Narratives: Text and Context of Maya Mythologies" and is preceded by a three-day Maya Hieroglyphic Workshop (December 3-6). Online registration is open until November 15, 2007! Separate registration is available for both events, if you just want to attend the Symposium or the Workshop. If you register until November 15 you’ll get a reduced rate! 

Wayeb Notes

A New Wayeb Note by Brian Stross entitled "The Armadillo Stool" has been added to the archive. You may download Wayeb Note #25 by clicking on the following link! http://www.wayeb.org/notes/wayeb_notes0025.pdf. Please stay tuned for other notes that will be posted on the website very soon!.

Best wishes,

Christian Prager


-----PROGRAMME FOR THE 12TH EUROPEAN MAYA CONFERENCE-----

12th European Maya Conference
The Maya and their Sacred Narratives:
Text and Context of Maya Mythologies
Geneva, Switzerland, December 7-8, 2007

Symposium preliminary program
Friday, December 7
Uni Bastion, Room B106, Place de l’Université 3, 1205 Geneva
Chair : Frauke Sachse (University of Bonn)

8.30-9.30 :
Registration

9.30-10.00 :
Welcome Addresses
Geneviève Le Fort (Wayeb Vice-President) and Raphaël Gardiol (University of Geneva)

Prof. Philippe Borgeaud, head of the Unity of History of Religions, University of Geneva

Frauke Sachse, Wayeb President

10.00-10.30 :
Alain Monnier (University of Geneva)
Comparar las mitologías

10.30-11.00 :
Raphaël Gardiol and Philippe Borgeaud (University of Geneva)
Mythologies

11.00-11.30 :
Coffee Break

11.30-12.00 :
Christian Prager (University of Bonn)
Remembering the Narrative: A Cognitive Approach in the Study of Tzotzil Oral Tradition

12.00-12.30 :
Simon Martin (University of Pennsylvania Museum)
Theosynthesis in Ancient Maya Religion

12.30-14.00 :
Lunch Break

14.00-14.30 :
Carlos Pallán Gayol (INAH, Mexico)
The Many Faces of Chaahk: exploring the role of a complex entity within myth, religion and politics

14.30-15.00 :
Nikolai Grube (University of Bonn)
The birth of the wayoob - a narrative on Codexstyle ceramics

15.00-15.30 :
Karl Taube (University of California, Riverside)
Corn on the Cosmos: Maize and Creation Mythology of Southeastern Mesoamerica

15.30-16.00 :
Coffee Break

16.00-16.30 :
Erik Velásquez García (UNAM, Mexico)
Imagen, texto y contexto ceremonial del ‘Ritual de los Ángeles’: viejos problemas y nuevas respuestas sobre la narrativa sagrada en los libros de Chilam Balam

16.30-17.00 :
Carl D. Callaway (Texas State University, San Marcos)
The Birth of the Number Twenty in the Dresden Codex

17.00-17.30 :
Gabrielle Vail (New College of Florida, Sarasota) and Christine Hernández (Tulane University, New Orleans)
Caimans, Caves, and K’awil: Creation Mythology in Late Postclassic Maya 

Iconography and Texts
Saturday, December 8
Uni Bastion, Room B106, Place de l’Université 3, 1205 Geneva
Chair: Bodil Liljefors Persson (Malmö University)

9.00-9.30 :
Timothy Knowlton (Tulane University, New Orleans and Berry College)
Composition and Artistry in a Classical Yucatec Maya Creation Myth: Prehispanic Ritual Narratives & Their Colonial Transmission

9.30-10.00 :
Hector Xol Choc (Universidad Rafaël Landívar, Guatemala)
Mitología Q’eqchi’ y sus raíces clásicas

10.00-10.30 :
Allen J. Christenson (Brigham Young University, Provo)
“Who Shall Be our Sustainer”: Sacred Myth and the Spoken Word

10.30-11.00 :
Coffee Break

11.00-11.30 :
Kerry Hull (Reitaku University, Japan)
The Grand Ch'orti' Epic: The Story of the Kumix Angel

11.30-12.00 :
Edwin Braakhuis (University of Utrecht)
The Tzotzil Myth of the Jaguar Slayer Reconsidered

12.00-12.30 :
Fátima Tec Pool (Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán)
Las cuevas, espacios míticos entre los mayas de hoy

12.30-14.00 :
Lunch Break

14.00-14.30 :
Lars Frühsorge and Ulrich Wölfel (University of Hamburg)
Salt, Sites, and Mythology: An ethnoarchaeological survey of San Mateo Ixtatán, Huehuetenango, Guatemala

14.30-15.00 :
Erik Boot (Rijswijk, The Netherlands)
Gods, Kings, and Queens at the Las Monjas Complex, Chichen Itza: Cosmological Order in Late Classic North Yucatan

15.00-15.30 :
Penny J. Steinbach (University of Texas, Austin)
Daubing and Aspersing: the Mythic Basis of a Classic Maya Heir Designation Ritual

15.30-16.00 :
Coffee Break

16.00-16.30 :
Pierre Robert Colas (Vanderbilt University, Nashville)
The Liminal Deities: Birth and Death Gods in Classic Maya Personal Names

16.30-17.00 :
Simone Thun, Julie Nehammer Knub and Christophe Helmke (University of Copenhagen)
The Divine Rite of Kings: An Analysis of Classic Maya Impersonation Statements

17.00-17.30 :
Closing Address: Frauke Sachse, Wayeb President


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