Ancient MesoAmerican Cosmovision Conference

Hosts: Houston Community College’s Mexican-American/Latino Program and the Museum Guadalupe Aztlan of Houston, Texas.

ANCIENT MESOAMERICAN COSMOVISION CONFERENCE

(The Conference is Free of Charge)

DATES: Thursday, June 25 (English) and Friday, June 26, 2009 (Spanish)
Location: Thursday and Friday, Southeast College, 6815 Rustic, Houston
Art Exhibit Opening: Thursday, June 25 at 7pm at the Museo Guadalupe Aztlan, 708 Telephone Rd., Suite B. Houston, Tx 77011.
Program: HCC Southeast College – Lecture Hall

Thursday, June 25

• 8:30 – 8:40 - Welcome: Dr. Joanne Lin, Dean of Student Services
• 8:40 – 8:45 - Introduction to Ancient Mesoamerica – Dr. Grisel Cano
• 8:45 – 9:45 – Guest Speaker, Artist, Educator -Ramon Barela – McAllen, Tx. “Mind Shift”
• 9:45 – 10 - Break
• 10:00 – 10:45 – Carminia Martinez – Anthropologist – “Calendars, Prophecies, and the 2012 Millenarian Movement Among the Council of Mayan Elders and Priests of Yucatan.
• 10:45 – 11: 15 - Alfonso Lopez - “The Ah-Men: Mayan Priest of the Agrarian Cult of Traditional Pueblos in Yucatan”
• 11:15 – 12:15 - Artist, media producer, Gabriel Gaytan
  “Tonal Achtli, Semilla del Sol, Seed of the Sun,” A Mesoamerican Visual Literacy Experience with Art, History and Culture
• 12:15 – 1 - Lunch
• 1:00 – 1:45 Angelina H. Rodriguez, LPC, ATR-BC - A Mayan Tradition in a New Culture-Celebrating Death Through Art”
• 1:45 – 2: 30 – Panel with presenters -Question and Answers
• Afternoon – Visit the Tlaquepaque at 708 Telephone Road
• Thursday – Art Exhibit – :Mindshift - Featuring Ramon Barela – Museo Guadalupe Aztlan - 708 Telephone St. Suite B – 7 pm.

Friday, June 26

• 9 – 9:30 – Introduccion – Ramon Barela, artista
• 9:30 – 10:00 – Ruben Bello, artista “ABYA-YALA, el verdadero nombre del continente americano.10:00 a 11:00 – Dr. Aid Avila Covarrubias “Ruta de la Peregrinacion Azteca”
• 11:00 – 11:15 – Break
• 11:15 – 12:15 – David Palmer - Neoliberalismo y Globalizacion de la Sabiduria Elemental
• 12: 15 – 1:30 – Lunch
• 1:30 – 2:00 – Jesus Medel – Los huipiles
• 2:00 – 3:00 Reunion con los Presentates – Mesa Redonda.

For more information, contact Grisel Cano @ 832 878-4079.