Previous Talks (Fall 1999 to Spring 2004)
Friday, March 5, 2004: John Justeson, SUNY Albany, presented ongoing research on the methodology for the decipherment of epi-Olmec hieroglyphic writing system.
Friday, January 30 2004: David Stuart, Harvard University, presented a paper entitled "Paw Stones and Jaguar Hills: New Patterns at Piedras Negras, Guatemala" at the Peabody Museum, Harvard.
Friday, December 5, 2003: Javier Urcid, Brandeis University, presented "The semasiography of the written surface" as part of a colloquium offered by Urcid to the Anthropology Department at SUNY Albany.
Saturday, November 15, 2003: John Justeson, SUNY Albany, discussed the chronological framework for the decipherment of epi-Olmec writing, including the astronomical patterns and practices that emerge from these texts.
Friday and Saturday, April 25-26, 2003: Terrence Kaufman, University of Pittsburgh, presented a Friday seminar on the influence of Mesoamerican languages on Nahua, followed by a seminar on Saturday on the linguistic of Mije-Sokean languages on other languages in Mesoamerica.
March 2003: Robert Carmack, SUNY Albany, spoke on colonial Maya legal terminology.
Friday, February 21, 2003: Jennifer Braswell, University at Buffalo, presented a talk entitled "What can be done with stone tools? Economic and social meaning of craft items at Xunantunich, Belize".
Friday, April 27, 2001: Dr. Marilyn Masson, SUNY Albany
Friday, March 30, 2001: Dr. Michael E. Smith, SUNY Albany
March 8-17, 2001: Terence Kaufman, John Justeson and David Mora-Marin presented on Epi-Olmec La Mojarra Script at The Maya Meetings at Texas, The Linda Schele Forum on Maya Hieroglyphic Writing.
Friday, October 12, 2001: Anthony Aveni, Colgate University, lectured on Cosmic Copycat Architecture at the Maya Sites.
February 2001: David Stuart, Peabody Museum, Harvard
March 2001: Karl Taube, SUNY Albany "Flower Mountain: Concepts of Life and Resurrection Among the Ancient Maya".
April 2001: Ed Calnek, SUNY Albany
Saturday, January 29, 2001, David Mora-Marin, SUNY Albany, presented The Structure of the Dedicatory Formula of Mayan Glyphic Texts.
December 15, 2000: Timothy J. Smith, SUNY Albany, presented a talk entitled "Time, Space, and Authority at Post-Classic Iximche': Analysis of New Calendrical and Linguistic Data from the Memorial de Sololá".
Friday, December 12, 2000: Sam Edgerton presented a lecture entitled The "Paradise Garden Murals" in the 16th-century Augustinian convento at Malinalco, Mexico.
Friday, November 19, 2000: John Justeson spoke on texts from Xochicalco.
Friday, October 22, 2000: Anthony Aveni spoke on the Venus table in the Codex Borgia.
Sunday, October 31, 2000: Stephen L. Whittington -Mesoamerican Writing on Artifacts at the Hudson Museum (in conjunction with NEMAC onference at UMaine)
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