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Dr. Luis Gordo Pelaez joins the Spring Semester Abroad Program

Dr. Luis Gordo Pelaez

Dr. Gordo Pelaez is currently  a lecturer on Colonial Spanish America in the Department of Art and Art History. He will join the Study Abroad program at Casa Herrera in Antigua, Guatemala in spring 2014 where he will teach a course on Baroque art and architecture in Colonial Mexico and Guatemala.

Maya Expert: The 'End Of Times' Is Our Idea, Not The Ancients'

Maya Expert: The 'End Of Times' Is Our Idea, Not The Ancients' is the NPR interview that features Dr. David Stuart. The interview aired on Thursday's Morning Edition. David Greene asks archaeologist Stuart, who helped translate influential ancient Mayan hieroglyphs in 1996, if he thinks the world will end on Dec. 21.

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KUT Austin News features David Stuart

It’s the End of the World as We Know It (Supposedly) And This UT Professor David Stuart Feels (Mostly) Fine. Prof Stuart is featured on KUT News with Nathan Bernier discussing the Maya Calendar.

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Mayan Cosmology

On December 17, WBUR Boston's NPR's station radio show "On Point" with Tom Ashbrook featured a show about Maya Cosmology.  The show had two prominent invited guests: Prof. William Saturno, from Boston University and Edwin Román, University of Texas at Austin Ph.D candidate and native Guatemalan archeologist. Listen to the podcast that debunks the real cosmology of the ancient Maya versus pop culture’s “Mayan apocalypse.”

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It's the End of the World....or its?

Dr. David Stuart is featured on the main webpage of the University Of Texas at Austin. Read the great article about the truth regarding 12- 21-12, according to renowned Maya scholar and Art History Professor David Stuart. The day is indeed meaningful — but not in the way you might think.

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Dr. David Stuart recognized with UNESCO Medal

Dr. David Stuart has been awarded a UNESCO medal for his lifetime contributions to the study of ancient Maya culture and archaeological sites, including those which have been categorized as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

The Mesoamerica Center welcomes Dr. Astrid Runggaldier

Dr. Astrid Runggaldier joins the Department of Art and Art History this fall as a Senior Lecturer with a teaching focus on Mesoamerican cultures. Through the Mesoamerica Center, she will lead the courses of UT’s semester-long Study Abroad program at Casa Herrera in Antigua, Guatemala.

Registration is now open for The 2013 Maya Meetings

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Registration is now open  for the 2013 Maya Meetings.

The Art of Maya Architecture:
Cosmology and Dynasty in the Built Environment
January 15-19, 2013
The University of Texas at Austin

All of our events require registration. All workshops are being conducted concurrently. Therefore, you may only register for one workshop. Registration fees are not refundable.

REGISTER HERE FOR THE MAYA MEETINGS

 

Mesoamerica Students presenting at the Simposio de InvestigacionesArqueológicas Guatemala

Brochure for the Simposio de Guatemala 2012

The Mesoamerica Center is proud to announce the following faculty and students  who are presenting papers at the XXVI Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas Guatemala.

MSNBC features David Stuart discovery

Maya panel featuring a prominent king

David Stuart, a professor of art history at the University of Texas at Austin, recognized the reference to the date among 56 glyphs that were carved on the stone block. "It was a time of great political turmoil in the Maya region, and this king felt compelled to allude to a larger cycle of time that happens to end in 2012," Stuart said in a statement released by UT."

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