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BRATISLAVA EMC 2021
Symposium
Tue 12/07
Chair: Jakub Špoták
13:00 – 13:30
Welcome address: Marián Zouhar (Dean of Faculty of Arts, Comenius University), Milan Kováč (Local organizer),
Harri Kettunen (Wayeb President)
13:30 – 14:00
Lorraine A. Williams-Beck – “Where’s All the Corn Kept? Cosmological, Iconographic, Linguistic, Archaeological and Ethnographic Approaches to Better Understand Maize Storage”
14:00 – 14:30
Edber Dzidz Yam, Harry Thomaß – “Mayas, Medios y Conocimiento – La producción de una pieza multimedia sobre la apicultura entre los mayas yucatecos basada en entre- vistas históricas con un especialista ritual”
14:30 – 14:45
Break
14:45 – 15:15
Nicolaus Seefeld – “Cause and Effect – The Sociopolitical Impacts of Agricultural Intensification and Water Management on Classic Maya Society”
15:15 – 15:45
Evgeniya Korovina – “The Origin and Development of Maya Agriculture: Some Evidence From Historical Linguistics”
15:45 – 16:15
Bodil Liljefors Persson – “Yucatec Maya Cosmology and Agriculture – Permanence and Change in Ritual Practices Seen Through the Books of Chilam Balam and Modern Fieldwork”
16:15 – 16:30
Break
16:30 – 17:00
Chair: Maria Felicia Rega
Joanna Asia Jabłońska, María Rosalía Couoh Chalé, Anselma Chalé Euán – “Las señoras de la miel – el manejo de Meliponas, las abejas sagradas, como el ejemplo de la recuperación de la memoria biocultural”
17:00 – 17:30
Michal Gilewski, Christa Schieber de Lavarreda, Carlos Espigares, Miguel Medina, Víctor Flores, Aldo Aleman, Kajetan Oglaza – “The Archaeological Evidence of Prehispanic Agriculture at Tak’alik Ab’aj, Retalhuleu, Guatemala / La evidencia arqueológica de la agricultura prehispánica en Tak’alik Ab’aj, Retalhuleu, Guatemala”
17:30 – 18:00
Jakub Adámek, Milan Kováč, Tibor Lieskovský, Jakub Špoták, Tomáš Drápela – “Ancient Maya Agriculture at Uaxactun: Research Findings and Models of Agricultural Practices from the Preclassic to the Terminal Classic Period”
18:00 – 18:15
Break
Chair: Harri Kettunen
18:15 – 19:15
Keynote lecture: Marc Zender – “Agriculture and Arboriculture in Maya Art and Writing”
Wed 12/08
All times given in Central European Time (CET), UTC + 1
Chair: Lucia Chvaštulová
13:00 – 13:30
Edwin Braakhuis – “The Maize Queen and the Mountain’s Daughter”
13:30 – 14:00
Dominik Čisárik – “Maya Utilitarian Plants in the 17th Century Extirpation of Idolatry: Rituals and Practices Related to Plants from the Perspective of the Novohispanic Mission- aries – The Case of Informe contra los adora- dores de ídolos del Obispado de Yucatán by Pedro Sánchez de Aguilar”
14:00 – 14:30
Daniel Salazar Lama – “La Subestructura IIC de Calakmul: el lugar del descenso de Chaahk y el surgimiento del maíz”
14:30 – 15:00
Ana Kondic – “Thipaak, God of Maize with Contemporary Huastec Maya”
15:00 – 15:15
Break
Chair: Daria Sekacheva
15:15 – 15:45
Mauricio Roberto Díaz García, Dora Maritza García Patzán – “The Hydraulic Canals in Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala – an Irrigation System for Crop Fields: New Findings From Mound C-IV-4 Area.”
15:45 – 16:15
Anabel Ford – “Cultivated Landscape of the El Pilar and the Maya Forest”
16:15 – 16:45
Philippe Nondédéo, Cyril Castanet, Eva Lemonnier, Louise Purdue, Lydie Dussol, Marc Testé, Julien Hiquet, Antoine Dorison – “Landscape, Settlement Patterns, and Agrarian Strategies: The Case of Naachtun and its Hinterland During the Preclassic and the Classic Periods”
16:45 – 17:00
Break
Chair: Dorota Bojkowska
17:00 – 17:30
Richard D. Hansen, Carlos Morales-Aguilar, Gustavo Martinez, Steve Bozarth, Daniel Bair, Richard Terry – “Ancient Agricultural and Hydraulic Strategies of the Preclassic Maya in the Mirador– Calakmul Karst Basin, Guatemala”
17:30 – 18:00
Milan Kováč – “Antropogonia de la calabaza. Los mayas lacandones y la mitología del origen de la humanidad”
18:00 – 18:30
John F. Chuchiak IV – “‘Ca numiae, lay u cal caxtlan patan lae’:* Colonial Tribute and Maya Nutrition, 1542-1812: A Study in the Impact of Conquest and Colonization on Maya Diet and Nutrition” *Our Suffering, this Harsh Castillian Tribute”
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Workshops
All times given in Central European Time (CET), UTC + 1
Thu 12/09
Beginners’ workshop: From Sowing to Crops – The Chok Ritual
in the Maya Inscriptions
12:00 – 18:00 with breaks
Intermediate workshop: Eating and Drinking in Meso- american Scripts
12:00 – 18:00 with breaks
Advanced workshop: The Force Awakens – History and Politics of Early Kanu’l
12:00 – 18:00 with breaks
Special Workshop: Comiendo como dioses, viviendo como reyes – aportes de la agricultura mesoamericana al mundo
12:00 – 18:00 with breaks
18:30 – 19:30 – Wayeb General Assembly
Fri 12/10
Beginners’ workshop: From Sowing to Crops – The Chok Ritual in the Maya Inscriptions
12:00 – 18:30 with breaks
Intermediate workshop: Eating and Drinking in Meso – american Scripts
15:00 – 21:00 with breaks
Advanced workshop: The Force Awakens – History and Politics of Early Kanu’l
12:00 – 18:30 with breaks
Special Workshop: Comiendo como dioses, viviendo como reyes – aportes de la agricultura mesoamericana al mundo
12:00 – 18:30 with breaks
Sat 12/11
Beginners’ workshop: From Sowing to Crops – The Chok Ritual in the Maya Inscriptions
12:00 – 18:00 with breaks
Intermediate workshop: Eating and Drinking in Meso- american Scripts
12:00 – 18:00 with breaks
Advanced workshop: The Force Awakens – History and Politics of Early Kanu’l
12:00 – 18:00 with breaks
Special Workshop: Comiendo como dioses, viviendo como reyes – aportes de la agricultura mesoamericana al mundo
12:00 – 18:00 with breaks
19:00 – 19:30 – Closing Ceremony: Milan Kováč (Local organizer), Harri Kettunen (Wayeb President), and organizers of the 2022 European Maya Conference