6.1166, Confs: Mesoam-Northam Parallels

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-1166. Mon Aug 28 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  174
 
Subject: 6.1166, Confs: Mesoam-Northam Parallels
 
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Date:  Mon, 28 Aug 1995 01:21:52 EDT
From:  ECOLING at aol.com
Subject:  Mesoam-Northam Parallels (Conference Announcement)
 
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Date:  Mon, 28 Aug 1995 01:21:52 EDT
From:  ECOLING at aol.com
Subject:  Mesoam-Northam Parallels (Conference Announcement)
 
Mesoam-Northam Parallels:
 
THE PRE-COLUMBIAN SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, D.C.
 
announces an all day seminar and panel discussion on
 
POTS, PAINTINGS AND PETROGLYPHS:
PARALLELS AMONG MESOAMERICA, SOUTHWESTERN & SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
 
Saturday, September 16th, 1995
 
This is an important symposium, a milestone in the field at which six of the
very best speakers / researchers in North American and Mesoamerican history,
culture, and visual symbols will be presenting their latest work.
 
Ancient civilizations of the Americas, sophisticated and complex, are being
rapidly rediscovered in our lifetimes.  They have a long history of hundreds
and thousands of years, just as do the cultures of the ancient Near East.
Some of this history is preserved in hieroglyphic monuments with written
language (especially Mayan).  Some of it is preserved in pictorial
iconographies (Mixtec codices and others) which are highly conventional and
can communicate meanings as precise as written language.  This is a new
frontier in communications and language research.
 
This symposium features pioneering discussions of what the cultures of Middle
and North America may have learned from each other over the span of thier
hundreds or thousands of years.  What technology and pictorial iconographies
did they share with each other?  Are these the results of contacts not long
before the arrival of Europeans?   Was there shared religion and cosmology
thousands of years before that?  Are some of the similarities pure chance?
 Did some elements of culture develop similarly in completely different
locations, simply because of common human experiences of the natural world?
 
Past generations have so enriched our knowledge of the Pre-Columbian Americas
that we can now begin to ask such fascinating questions, and to use real
evidence in trying to answer them.
 
Don't miss this important event!  Register now (form attached).
 
PROGRAM
 
8:00      Registration, Morning Refreshments
9:00      George Stuart (Center for Maya Research & National Geographic
Society)
                    Opening Remarks
10:00    James Brown (Northwestern University)
                    Bird Man, Red Horn and Chunkee Player:
                    Early Southeastern Themes with Mesoamerican Connections
11:00    Coffee Break
11:15    Polly Schaafsma (Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe)
                    Tlalocs, Kachinas and Sacred Bundles:
                    Related Symbolism in the Pueblo Southwest and in
Mesoamerica
12:15    Jill Leslie McKeever-Furst (Moore College of Art & Design,
Philadelphia)
                    Tracking the Serpent:  Rattlesnake Shamanism in the
American Southwest
                    and the Cult of Xipe Totec in Ancient Central Mexico
1:15      Lunch
2:30      Karl Taube (University of California Riverside)
                    Symbolism of Maize in Mesoamerican and Southwestern
Thought
3:30      Kent Reilly (Southwest Texas State University)
                    Turtle Iconography and Mythology: Cosmological
Similarities
                    Between Mesoamerica and the Mississippian Southeast
4:30      Discussion - All Speakers
6:30-8   Buffet Reception, Dupont Plaza Hotel, Dupont Circle,
                    1500 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
 
LOCATION
 
The American Society of Association Executives Building, 1575 "I" Street,
N.W., Downtown Washington, D.C.  The ASAE is one block from the McPherson
Square Metro stop on the Blue/Orange line.  A CarrPark garage is on the
premises.  (Note:  on-site street parking is limited to two hours.)
 
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
 
A limited number of rooms have been reserved at a special rate at the Dupont
Plaza Hotel on Dupont Circle, 1500 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington,
D.C.  20036.  Reservations telephone number is (800) 841-0003 (call between
9a.m. and 6 p.m.).
The cost for a Single/Double is $95.00 plus 13% Washington, D.C., Hotel Sales
Tax and a $1.50 Room Occupancy Tax.
It is essential that you identify yourself as part of the Pre-Columbian
Society of Washington, D.C.  Reservations made after September 1, 1995, will
be subject to
availability and the hotel's current rates.  The Dupont Plaza Hotel is
located on the Dupont
Circle Metro stop on the Red Line and is a short cab ride from the ASAE.
Limited street parking is available.  Garage parking is available at
$13.00 per day.
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REGISTRATION FORM
 
NOTE:  reservations must include payment.  No refunds will be made.
 
Name(s)
 
_____________________________________________________________________
[Please print name(s) as you wish it(them) on name tag(s)]
 
Address, City, State  Zip
 
_____________________________________________________________________
 
_____________________________________________________________________
 
Telephone Day       (_______)  ________-______________
 
Telephone Evening   (_______)  ________-______________
 
 
SEMINAR COSTS $60 for those not members of the Pre-Columbian Society of DC:
 
______ Ticket(s) x $60 each     = $__________
 
BOX LUNCH (reserve ticket(s) before September 9):  $15
 
______ Ticket(s) x $15 each     = $__________
 
BUFFET RECEPTION/CASH BAR - you need not attend the seminar to attend the
reception (reserve ticket(s) before September 9):  $32.50
 
______ Ticket(s) x $32.50 pp    = $__________
 
 
TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED:   $__________
 
Make checks out to:  The Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, D.C.
Mail registration form and fees to:  The Pre-Columbian Society of Washington,
D.C., Registration Coordinator, 11104 Bucknell Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20902
 
 
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