Fall 2008 Meeting of the Mesoamerican Network

[John Machado]

Fall 2008 Meeting of the Mesoamerican Network
Sunday, Nov. 16, 1-5pm
L.A. County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Brown Auditorium (ground floor below café)

Virginia Fields (LACMA): Recontextualizing the Art of the Ancient
Americas

Megan O’Neil (USC): The Lives of Ancient Maya Sculptures

Cecelia Klein (UCLA): Figurines and the Formation of the Official
Aztec Pantheon

Manuel Aguilar (CSU-LA): Malinalco: A Place between Heaven and Earth

Ronald Loewe (CSU-LB): Working for Tommy Hilfiger: Article 27,
Neoliberal
Reform, and the Death
of Agriculture at the Mexican
Periphery

Visit the new Art of the Ancient Americas galleries! Museum is open
from 11-8 on
Nov. 16. Admission is $12 ($8 for seniors and students). Parking on
6th St., ½ block east of Fairfax, $7


other events of interest:
The third Maya Symposium, “Mesoamerican Mythologies,” will be held
October 18, 2008 at the Beckman Center in Irvine. For further details
and registration forms visit www.mesoamericanmythologies.info

A series of events will be held in Santa Barbara to promote the El
Pilar Peace Park Initiative.
October 21, "Bienvenida Welcome" for visiting Guatemala Dignitaries
at the Mural Room of the Santa Barbara Court House, cosponsored by
Salud Carbajal, 6-8pm
October 22, Panel on "Culture and Nature~Building Collaboration at El
Pilar" followed by the MOU signing with Chancellor Yang at the McCune
Room of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center 1-3 pm
contact Anabel Ford, fo...@marc.ucsb.edu for more details.