Below is the complete list of speakers and talks of the Symposium: Mesoamerican Philosophies. For workshops see the separate tab for Workshop Information, Jan 9-11.
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Thursday evening January 11th: Keynote Presentation
Davíd Carrasco, Harvard Divinity School
Cities that Say Everything You Must Think: Aztec Cosmovision, Templo Mayor and the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan
Friday January 12th: Symposium talks
Opening Remarks
James Maffie, University of Maryland
Human and Other-Than-Human Reciprocal Co-participation in the Ongoing Recreation of the 5th Age
Elliot Lopez-Finn, The University of Texas at Austin
The Paper House: Amacalli Deities and Embodied Architecture in the Postclassic Period
Nicholas Hopkins, Independent Scholar
The Nature of the Material World in Maya Philosophy
Osiris Sinuhé González Romero, Leiden University
Wisdom, Language and Worldview in Nahuatl Philosophy
Zachary Hruby, Northern Kentucky University
The Secret Life of Eccentrics and Other Sacred Stones: Going Beyond the ‘Use-Life’ Concept in Understanding the Uses and Lives of Classic Maya Sastuns
Barbara MacLeod, Independent Scholar
A Mam For All Seasons: The Ontological Anchoring of Late Classic Maya Alliances in Naj Tunich Cave, Guatemala
Michael Carrasco, Florida State University
The Sacred Ecologies of the Mesoamerican Image
Karl Taube, The University of California-Riverside
Bringing the Rain: The Origin of the Gods of Rain and Lightning in Formative Mesoamerica
Question and Answer Session
Friday evening January 12th: exhibition on the Codex Borgia
Visual Arts Center Galleries, Private Exhibition and Reception: The Codex Borgia.
Saturday January 13th: Symposium Talks
David Stuart, The University of Texas at Austin
Conflated Identities: Rulership, Reflected Names and Multiple States of Being in Ancient Mesoamerica
Patrick Hajovsky, Southwestern University
Luster and Essence: One’s Fate in Shiny Objects
Lucia Henderson, Independent Scholar
Touched by Fire: Volcanoes in Ancient Mesoamerican Belief
Alexus McLeod, University of Connecticut
Embedded Identity in Maya Philosophy
Andrew Finegold, The University of Illinois Chicago
Drilling does not Equal Killing: Perforated Plates in Classic Maya Funerary Contexts
Christopher Beekman, The University of Colorado Denver
Co-essences in the Ceramic Effigies of Far Western Mexico
Linda Brown, The George Washington University
Pure-Nawal: Communicating Objects, Dream Bundles and Contemporary Tz’utujil Maya Ritual Practitioners
Leonardo López Luján, Insituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia & Proyecto Templo Mayor
Amore di Fratello, Amore di Coltello: Huitzilopochtli’s Myth and the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan
Question and Answer Session
Concluding Remarks
Saturday evening January 13th: Closing Reception
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