Preliminary Programme WORKSHOP Introductory Lecture Location: Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Large Hall/Duża Aula, Sławkowska 17 Street Monday, November 9 14.00 – 15.00 Registration 15.00 – 15.30 Welcome address 15.30 – 17.30 Simon Martin (University of Pennsylvania Museum) Introductory lecture Workshop Sessions Location: Institute of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University (Collegium Minus), Gołębia 11 Street Tuesday, November 10 09.00 – 12.00 Morning session 14.00 – 18.00 Afternoon session 19.00 - Pre-View of Balancing the Cosmos with commentary by Andrew Weeks, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Large Hall/Duża Aula, Sławkowska 17 Street Wednesday, November 11 09.00 – 12.00 Morning session 14.00 – 18.00 Afternoon session Thursday, November 12 09.00 – 12.00 Morning session 14.00 – 16.00 Afternoon session 16.30 – 18.30 Wayeb General Assembly, Institute of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University, Gotycka Hall 19.00 - Workshop Farewell & Speakers' welcome: Cafe Camelot, Tomasza 17 Street SYMPOSIUM Location: Auditorium Maximum of the Jagiellonian University, Krupnicza 33 Street, Medium Lecture Hall/Aula Średnia A, http://www.kampus.uj.edu.pl/auditorium.htm Friday, November 13 08.30 – 09.30 Registration 09.30 – 10.00 Welcome address 10.00 – 10.30 Héctor Escobedo (Viceministro del Deporte y la Recreación, Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes de Guatemala) History Carved on Stone: The Monuments of the Kingdom of Tamarindito and Arroyo de Piedra 10.30 – 11.00 Robert Sharer & Loa Traxler (University of Pennsylvania Museum) Copan and Quirigua: Shifting Destinies in the Southeastern Lowlands 11.30 - 12.00 Joanne Baron (University of Pennsylvania), Marcello Canuto (MARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barrientos (Universidad del Valle de Guatemala) Local and Regional Politics at La Corona, Guatemala 12.00 – 12.30 Stanley Guenter (Southern Methodist University) The Vassals of Spearthrower Owl: Defining the “New Order” in the Political History of the Petén 12.30 - 13.00 Milan Kováč (Comenius University Bratislava) & Ramzy R. Barrois (Ecole du Louvre, Paris) The role of Siyaj K´ak´ in Uaxactun and Central Peten 14.30 - 15.00 Alexandre Safronow (Lomonosov Moscow State University) & Dmitri Beliaev (Russian State University for the Humanities) Sak Tz'i', 'Ak'e' and Xukalnaah: Reinterpreting the Political Geography of the Upper Usumacinta Region 15.00 – 15.30 Charles Golden (Brandeis University) & Andrew Scherer (Baylor University) All of a Piece: The Politics of Growth and Collapse in Classic Period Maya Kingdoms 15.30 - 16.00 Bernard Hermes (Nakum Archaeological Project, Guatemala) & Jarosław Źrałka (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) Nakum and Yaxha during the Terminal Classic Period : External Relations and Strategies of Survival at the Time of the Collapse 16.30 - 17.00 Elizabeth Graham (University College London) & Christophe Helmke (University of Copenhagen) Sea Change: Community Interaction as Networks of Obligation 17.00 - 17.30 Simon Martin (University of Pennsylvania Museum) title to be announced 17.30 - Discussion Saturday, November 14 10.00 - 10.30 Jerald D. Ek (Universidad Autónoma de Campeche) Political Strategies Among Classic Maya Hegemonic States 10.30 - 11.00 James A. Doyle (Brown University) A Paleographic Approach to Political Change Using Classic Maya Day Sign Variants 11.30 - 12.00 Iyaxel Anastasia Cojtí Ren (Universidad del Valle de Guatemala) title to be announced 12.00 - 12.30 Allen J. Christenson (Brigham Young University) "There Was Only Joy In Their Hearts" — Ritual Feasting As Political Strategy In The Maya Highlands 12.30 - 13.00 Lorraine Williams-Beck (Universidad Autónoma de Campeche), Bodil Liljefors Persson (Malmö University), Armando Anaya Hernández (Universidad Autónoma de Campeche), Orquídea Pérez Romero Back to the Future for Predicting the Past: Cuúchcabal-Batabil-Cuchteel and May Ritual Political Structures across Archaeological Landscapes, in Ethnohistoric Texts, and through Cosmological Time. 14.30 - 15.00 Tsubasa Okoshi Harada (Universidad Sofía, Tokio) La formación del cuchcabal de Maní: las interacciones de sus unidades componentes (cuchteel y batabil) y el ejercicio del poder de los Xiu en el Posclásico terminal 15.00 - 15.30 Arturo Pascual Soto & Erik Velásquez García (UNAM) Relaciones y estrategias políticas entre El Tajín y diversas entidades mayas durante la segunda mitad del siglo IX d.C. 15.30 - 16.00 Carlos Pallán Gayol (INAH) A Glimpse from Edzna’s Hieroglyphs: Middle, Late and Terminal Classic Processes of Cultural Interaction between the Southern, Western and Northern Lowlands 16.30 - 17.00 Hugo García Capistrán (UNAM) El reino de la serpiente bajo la mirada de sus aliados 17.00 - 17.30 Nikolai Grube (University of Bonn) The expansion and decline of the Kaan dynasty: a perspective from Uxul, Campeche 17.30 - 18.00 Discussion 18.00 - 18.30 Closing address .