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All times given in Central European Time (CET), UTC + 1.

Workshops, 17-19 November

B - Maya Epigraphy Beginners Level

On the Frontier: Relations between Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan

Boguchwała Tuszyńska (independent scholar), Agnieszka Hamann (University of Warsaw, Poland), Dorota Bojkowska (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)

A - Maya Epigraphy Advanced Level

Migration and Ethnic Complexity at Copan

Felix Kupprat (Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico)

C - Maya Codices: Portals between Natural and Supernatural Worlds

Bruce Love (independent scholar)

N - Older Peripherial Nahuatl

Szymon Gruda, John Sullivan (Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity, Faculty of “Artes Liberales” University of Warsaw, Poland)

Day

Time

Tuesday,

November 17

13:45 - 14:00

Opening Address for the Workshops, Justyna Olko,

Jan Szymański, Harri Kettunen

14:00 - 15:30

1st Session

B, A, C

15:30 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 17:30

2nd Session

B, A, C, N

17:30 - 18:00

Break

18:00 - 19:30

3rd Session

B, A, C, N

Wednesday,

November 18

14:00 - 15:30

4th Session

B, A, C

15:30 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 17:30

5th Session

B, A, C, N

17:30 - 18:00

Break

18:00 - 19:30

6th Session

B, A, C, N

Thursday,

November 19

14:00 - 15:30

7th Session

B, A, C

15:30 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 17:30

8th Session

B, C

17:30 - 18:00

Break

18:00 - 19:30

9th Session

B, C

19:30 - 20:00

Break

20:00 - 21:00

Wayeb General Assembly

Symposium, 20-21 November

day

session

time

authors

title

Friday, November 20

13:15 - 13:45

Justyna Olko and Jan Szymański (University of Warsaw, Poland), Miłosz Giersz (President of the Polish Society for Latin American Studies, Poland), Harri Kettunen (President of Wayeb, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Welcome Address

13:45 - 14:45

John Chuchiak (Missouri State University, USA), Harri Kettunen (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Introductory Lecture: The Lowland Maya Frontier and the Terra Incognita: Post-Conquest Maya Identity in the Borderlands and Beyond

14:45 - 15:00

Break

1st,

15:00 - 16:30

chair:

J. Szymański

15:00 - 15:30

Jarosław Źrałka (Jagiellonian University, Poland), Christophe Helmke (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Changing Boundaries, Shifting Fortunes: Nakum and Its Neighbours through Time

15:30 - 16:00

Alexander Safronov (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia), Milan Kováč (Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia) Tibor Lieskovský (Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia) Dora Maritza García Patzán (Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia) Alexandra Rášová (Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia)

“In the Land of Divine King”: Analysis

of the Territory and Boundary of Classic Maya Polity of Uaxactun

16:00 - 16:30

Discussion

16:30 - 16:45

Break

2nd,

16:45 - 18:15

chair:

J. Hoopes

16:45 - 17:15

Helen R. Haines (Department of Anthropology, Trent University, Canada), Alec McLellan (Trent University Archaeological Research Centre (TUARC), Canada), Kerry L. Sagebiel (Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, USA), Elizabeth Graham (Institute of Archaeology, University College London, Great Britain)

The “What” is in Constant Flux:

Meditations on the Problems of Scale

and Archaeological Perception

17:15 - 17:45

Meaghan M. Peuramaki-Brown (Athabasca University, Canada), Shawn G. Morton (Grande Prairie Regional College, Canada), Jillian M. Jordan (Boundary End Archaeology Research Center, USA)

Disrupting Discourses on Maya Boundaries, Borders, and Frontiers:

A Standpoint Narrative from Alabama, Belize

17:45 - 18:15

Discussion

18:15 - 18:30

Break

3rd,

18:30 - 20:00

chair:

M. Giersz

18:30 - 19:00

Albert Davletshin

(Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia)

Origin of Young Maize God: Different Versions of the Narrative and Their Areal Distributions in Mesoamerica

19:00 - 19:30

Lorraine A. Williams-Beck (Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, Mexico)

Provinces Delimited, Cuchcabalob and Hallowed Symbolic “Culture Areas” Implied: A Brief Survey of Peninsular Maya Geographical Strategies, Envisioned Frontiers, and Consecrated Spatial Configurations Through Time

19:30 - 20:00

Discussion

Saturday, November 21

4th,

14:00 - 15:30

chair:

J. Olko

14:00 - 14:30

Cynthia Radding (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)

Indigenous Borderlands North of Mesoamerica: Defending the Boundaries

of the Yoreme World

14:30 - 15:00

Edward Schortman, Patricia Urban (Kenyon College, USA)

No Cores or Peripheries: A Network Approach to Southeast Mesoamerican Prehistory

15:00 - 15:30

Discussion

15:30 - 15:45

Break

5th,

15:45 - 17:15

chair:

A. Safronov

15:45 - 16:15

John W. Hoopes (University of Kansas, USA)

Addressing the Shared Frontiers and Cultural Milieu of the Maya Area, the Isthmo-Colombian Area, and Caribbean

16:15 - 16:45

Kathryn M. Hudson (University at Buffalo, Departments of Anthropology and Department of Linguistics, USA) John S. Henderson (Cornell University, Department of Anthropology, USA)

At the Edge of the Maze: Fuzzy Spheres, Overlapping Boundaries,

and Archaeological Systematics

16:45 - 17:15

Discussion

17:15 - 17:30

Break

6th,

17:30 - 19:00

chair:

J. Źrałka

17:30 - 18:00

Werner Hernandez (Colectivo Tzunhejekat,

El Salvador)

Los nahuas sureños en Centroamérica: Historia reciente y actualidad

18:00 - 18:30

Justyna Olko (Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity, Faculty of “Artes Liberales” University of Warsaw, Poland), Jan Szymański (Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Poland)

Peripheries as Centers, Centers

as Peripheries: Identity, Exchange,

and Innovation in Mesoamerica

18:30 - 19:00

Discussion

19:00 - 19:15

Break

19:15 - 19:45

Harri Kettunen, present and future Organizers

Closure and Flag Ceremony