{"id":4268,"date":"2012-10-15T12:02:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T17:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2024-07-02T13:34:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:34:55","slug":"maya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=4268","title":{"rendered":"College faculty participate in Mayan symposium Oct. 25-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4269\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2024\/07\/maya_104symposium-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4269\" title=\"maya_104symposium\" src=\"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2024\/07\/maya_104symposium-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A free public symposium, \u201c13 Bak\u2019tun: New Maya Perspectives in 2012,&#8221; will examine the history and culture of Maya people. (photo courtesy of George E. Stuart and National Geographic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A free public symposium Oct. 25-26 at UNC-Chapel Hill will put the end of the Maya Long Count calendar cycle on Dec. 21 into a larger historical and cultural context that includes the voices of Maya people.<\/p>\n<p>The following College of Arts and Sciences faculty are involved in the symposium<strong>:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emilio del Valle Escalante, Romance Languages and Literatures<\/li>\n<li>Patricia McAnany, Anthropology<\/li>\n<li>David Mora-Marin, Linguistics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201c13 Bak\u2019tun: New Maya Perspectives in 2012\u201d will include a series of lectures, readings of contemporary Mayan poetry and two exhibits of photographs and artifacts.\u00a0Registration is recommended but not required.<\/p>\n<p>See the symposium schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium name comes from the Maya word \u201cbak\u2019tun,\u201d a calendar cycle of 400 years of 360 days. Completion of the 13th bak\u2019tun ends one cycle and starts another, according to ancient inscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Symposium highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keynote address by Victor Montejo, a Maya Pop\u2019ti novelist, poet and scholar from Guatemala and professor emeritus of Native American studies at the University of California, Davis, 5:30 p.m. Oct. 25, Wilson Library.<\/li>\n<li>Open class on contemporary Maya conceptions of the end of the Long Count Calendar and its representations in literature by<strong> Emilio del Valle Escalante<\/strong> (Romance languages and literatures department), 11 a.m. Oct. 26, Wilson Library.<\/li>\n<li>Discussion of indigenous land rights in Belize, led by Maya activist Cristina Coc, noon Oct. 26, Van Hecke-Wettach Hall (School of Law).<\/li>\n<li>Open class on classic Maya use of the Long Count calendar, led by <strong>Patricia A. McAnany<\/strong> (anthropology department), 2 p.m. Oct. 26, Wilson Library<\/li>\n<li>Lecture on Mayan hieroglyphic writing by <strong>David Mora-Mar\u00edn<\/strong> (linguistics department), 3:30 p.m. Oct. 26, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center.<\/li>\n<li>Curator\u2019s talk by former National Geographic archaeologist and UNC alumnus George E. Stuart at 6 p.m. Oct. 26, followed at 6:30 p.m. by contemporary Maya poetry readings by poets Briceida Cuevas Cob (Maya Yucatec) of Mexico and Rosa Ch\u00e1vez (Maya K\u2019iche\u2019-Kaqchikel) of Guatemala, in Spanish and their native Maya languages (translation provided), both at FedEx Global Education Center.<\/li>\n<li>Exhibit \u201cAncient and Living Maya Through the Photographic Lens,\u201d featuring 20 large images of Maya people and sites by National Geographic photographers, as well as a display of Maya garments and textiles, through Dec. 14, FedEx Global Education Center.<\/li>\n<li>Exhibit \u201cAncient and Living Maya in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Archaeological Discovery, Literary Voice and Political Struggle,\u201d featuring Maya materials from the Rare Book Collection\u2019s George E. and Melinda Y. Stuart Collection, Oct. 8, 2012-Jan. 27, 2013, Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room, Wilson Library.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A free public symposium Oct. 25-26 at UNC-Chapel Hill will put the end of the Maya Long Count calendar cycle on Dec. 21 into a larger historical and cultural context that includes the voices of Maya 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