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The Program
at a Glance: Maya Worlds: on-site in Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras
and Belize June 18- July
29, 2006 Project Directors:
George Scheper, Humanities, Community College of Baltimore County-Essex,
and
Laraine Fletcher, Anthropology, Adelphi University Project Manager:
David A. Berry, Executive Director, Community College Humanities
Association Visiting Faculty: Federico Fahsen
(Universidad Francisco Marroquin); William Fash (Harvard University);
Gary Gossen (SUNY Albany); Rebecca González Lauck (INAH); Peter
Harrison (University of New Mexico); Carol Hendrickson (Marlboro College);
Robert Laughlin (Smithsonian Institution); George Lovell (Queen's University,
Canada); Julie Miller (INAH);
Victor Montejo (UC, Davis); Alfonso Morales (INAH); K. Anne Pyburn (Indiana
University); Matthew Restall (Penn State University); Karl Taube (UC,
Riverside); Jan de Vos (CIESAS).
--------------------------------------------- The Community
College Humanities Association proudly announces a major award from
the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct a national Summer
Institute on "Maya Worlds: on-site in Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras
and Belize." Twenty-four faculty selected from community and four-year
colleges and universities throughout the United States will have the
opportunity to study Maya culture in the field with fifteen internationally
known scholars and writers from a variety of humanities and social science
disciplines.
The six-week
Institute will begin in the city of Villahermosa, Mexico, near the ancient
Olmec heartland, with seminars by anthropologist Karl Taube and a field
visit to El Parque Museo de la Venta with archaeologist Rebecca González
Lauck. We then move on to Chiapas, to the spectacular classic Maya sites
of Palenque, Bonampak and Yaxchilan, guided by archaeolopgists Julie
Miller and Alfonso Morales. In the Chiapan colonial capital of San
Cristóbal de las Casas we have seminars with Chiapas historian
Jan de Vos and anthropologist Gary Gossen, with visits to the towns
of Chamula and Zinacantán and meetings with the local Maya theatre
groups Sna Itz'bajam and FOMMA, hosted by Bob and Miriam Laughlin.
We
spend three days with site archaeologist Peter Harrison at Uaxactun
and Tikal in Guatemala, and then travel to Belize for visits to the
Panti Maya Medicine Trail and to archaeological sites in the Belize
valley led by K. Anne Pyburn. For three days we are based in Maya towns
in the San Antonio district for an experience of local culture, and
seminars by historian Matthew Restall. From Belize we travel by boat
and overland to Guatemala, for site visits to Quiriguá and Copán,
Honduras led, respectively, by David Sedat and William Fash. For the
final segment of the Institute we return to Guatemala, based in the
colonial capital of Antigua, Guatemala for seminars with anthropologist
Victor Montejo and field trips to the contemporary Maya towns of San
Antonio Aguas Calientes, Tecpán, Chichicastenango with anthropologists
Federico Fahsen and Carol Hendrickson. We end in Guatemala City with
seminars by historian George Lovell and roundtables with contemporary
Guatemalan Maya writers.
The Institute will be co-directed by Dr. George Scheper, director
of an interdisciplinary humanities program for adults at the Community
College of Baltimore County-Essex, and by Dr. Laraine Fletcher, anthropologist
and Mayanist at Adelphi University. Professors Scheper and Fletcher
have directed previous NEH Maya World Institutes for CCHA in 2000 and
2002, and have edited special issues of The Community College Humanities
Review consisting
of participant essays generated by those projects. Participants in these
earlier projects were exuberant in their praise, both of the intellectual
quality and collegiality of the Institutes, and in the quality of leadership
provided, and have reported on the tremendous effect these projects
have had on their teaching and scholarship, as well as the impact in
their home institutions and communities. Laraine Fletcher has been involved
in archaeological projects at sites in Nicaragua, and at Cobá
and Calakmul, and has published widely on settlement pattern research
at those sites. George Scheper has conducted a program of New World
studies at the Community College of Baltimore County-Essex, and this
is the ninth NEH Institute he has directed for CCHA.
STIPEND Because
"Maya Worlds" is being held on site in Mexico, Guatemala,
Honduras and Belize, with a full program of field-study visits, the
grant monies usually allocated as stipends have been pooled to cover
participant travel and lodging expenses within the Institute, all of
which will be covered directly by CCHA (these costs per participant
are equal in value to the current $4,200 stipend for a six-week Institute).
Participants will receive all lodging, internal travel and site-visit
costs for all scheduled activities during the Institute, as is specified
in the detailed Daily Schedule. Participants are responsible for meal
expenses, for personal expenses and for their own travel arrangements
to Villahermosa, Mexico by Sunday June 18, 2006 and for return from
Guatemala City on or after July 29, 2006 (NEH funds cannot cover individual
travel to and from the Institute). Participants may wish to make these
travel arrangements individually, but our designated travel agent will
be pleased to assist participants with those arrangements. Based on
our past experience, participants should anticipate budgeting between
$30 to $40 per day for meals and other personal expenses for the duration
of the project.
HOW
TO APPLY: Faculty from both four-year and community colleges
interested in applying for the "Maya Worlds" Institute can
download Institute information and the Application Packet directly from
our website at < www.ccha-assoc.org/mayaworlds06/index.html >. Or,
if preferred, hard copy of the Application Packet can be mailed upon request, by
writing or calling project manager David A. Berry at the address or
phone number below:
Application
Deadline: March 1, 2006
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional questions about the Institute program or content
may be addressed directly to either of the project co-directors:
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