Note to editors and news directors:
To arrange interviews or to attend the symposium, contact Hector
Cordova, CSULA Art History Society, on his cellphone at (626) 796-0004.
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Media Advisory: April 12 & 13
Cal State
L.A. pays homage to Michael D. Coe
2013 symposium brings
together scholars, academics in Mesoamerican studies Los Angeles, CA – Featuring 15 distinguished
scholars who are leaders in the field of Mesoamerica, Cal State
L.A.’s Art History Society presents “Jaguars, Eagles and
Feathered Serpents: Mesoamerica Re-explored,” on Friday and
Saturday, April 12-13. The 2013 Mesoamerican Symposium, which pays homage
to the life and work of renowned archaeologist Michael D. Coe,
will take place in the Golden Eagle Ballroom on the CSULA campus. Coe
will be presented with the Tlamatini Award for lifetime
achievement during the Saturday program. Tlamatini is a Nahua
word that means wise man or teacher. One of the most prestigious Mayanists of all time,
Coe is a Charles J. McCurdy Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Yale
University. His research interests focus on the pre-Spanish
civilizations of Mesoamerica, especially the Olmec and Maya; and on the
Khmer civilization of Cambodia. He has been a member of the National
Academy of Sciences since 1986. Coe’s books include The Maya,
Mexico, The True History of Chocolate, Breaking the Maya
Code, Reading the Maya Glyphs, and Angkor and the Khmer
Civilization. The sessions at the two-day event will cover the
following topics: * “The Nunnery Quadrangle at Uxmal:
Kingship, Court, and Cosmos in a Puuc Palace Complex,”
* “Myth and Ritual of Access to Power in the Central
Part of the Codex Borgia: A Proposal,”
* “The Toltec Ballgame: Rewards, Titles and Position in
Postclassic Society,”
* “The Millenialist Utopia of the Indian Jerusalem:
Indian-Christian Art and Transculturation in 16th Century Mexico,”
* “The Bonampak Murals: A Performance at the Maya Court,”
and more. Among the renowned cast of scholars at the
symposium are Robert H. Cobean, director of the Tula
Archaeological Project and a member of Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de
Antropología e Historia (National Institute of Anthropology and
History), and Mary E. Miller, dean of Yale College at Yale
University and the highly-esteemed author of The Art of Mesoamerica,
and An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient
Mexico and the Maya (co-authored by Dr. Karl Taube). In addition,
Oswaldo Chinchilla of Yale; Jeff K. Kowalski of Northern
Illinois University; Stephen D. Houston of Brown University;
Guilhiem Olivier of UNAM; Juan Miro of University of Texas,
Austin, and many others will be participating. For more about the symposium, go to
http://www.facebook.com/pages/AHS-Art-History-Society-at-CSULA/425830835314.
Admission is $15, and $10 for students. This is
cosponsored by the Department of Art and the College of Arts and Letters
at Cal State L.A. To register, please email
AHSMeso2013@gmail.com. The University is located at the Eastern Avenue
exit, San Bernardino Freeway, at the interchange of the 10 and 710
Freeways. Public (permit dispensers) parking is available on the top
level of Parking Structure C. For campus maps and directions:
http://www.calstatela.edu/univ/maps/cslamap.php. # # #
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