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[David Hixson]

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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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