Welcome to Tulane University’s Maya Symposium webpage. Since 2002, Tulane University has hosted a weekend of talks and workshops dedicated to the study of the Maya civilization of Mexico and Central America. This yearly meeting has called upon scholars from a wide spectrum of specialties—epigraphy, archaeology, art history, linguistics, history, and cultural anthropology—to elucidate the many facets of this fascinating Mesoamerican culture. In developing a broad approach to the subject matter, we aim to draw the interest of a wide ranging group of people—from the expert to the beginner.
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9th Annual

Tulane Maya Symposium:

In the Time of the Maya

Feb 24-26, 2012

The Middle American Research Institute, the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, and Far Horizons are proud to present the Ninth Annual Tulane Maya Symposium and Workshop. This year’s symposium titled “In The Time of the Maya” will focus, in 400 year intervals, on the entire known history of the Maya civilization from mythological time to today. The symposium presenters will count the baktuns from creation to the present in order to recount the full history and contemplate the future of the Maya civilization.

As in the past two years, MARI will take the reins in organizing the Maya Symposium. In collaboration with the Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the New Orleans Museum of Art, we hope to develop a diverse set of activities and topics for the symposium’s participants and attendees for many years to come. Now that MARI has returned to its new facilities in renovated Dinwiddie Hall, we plan to expand the scope and range of activities offered by the Symposium.

In keeping with tradition, this year’s Maya Symposium will incorporate a wide variety of specialties such as epigraphy, archaeology, and art history to explore the research being conducted on the ancient Maya civilization. This conference will use this interdisciplinary approach to focus on how and why the great cites and states of the Maya civilization developed throughout the lowlands, highlands, and coast.

Activities will include a keynote lecture hosted at the New Orleans Museum of Art by Dr. Anthony F. Aveni, a viewing of the Precolumbian collection at NOMA, workshops on Preclassic Maya art and iconography, an exhibit featuring materials from the Merle Greene Robertson Collection at the Latin American Library, and much more. We invite you to join us in New Orleans, LA, February 24-26, 2012 at Tulane University and the New Orleans Museum of Art to learn of the recent developments in Maya studies as they relate to the broader topic of Mesoamerican studies.

Learn more about the 2012 Meetings