The Mesoamerica Meetings

04/16/2026

Save the date! Our next Mesoamerica Meetings will be November 5-7, 2026. More details to be announced soon about speakers and workshops, focusing on the latest research at Tikal.

11/06/2025

The next UT Mesoamerica Meetings will be in Fall of 2026! We're now in our initial planning stages for the conference, with the help of our partners at UT's Lorenzo Long Institute for Latin American Studies. We will soon post dates and more details on our topic, "Tikal and its Neighbors." Stay tuned for more updates!

¡Las próximas UT Mesoamérica Meetings se celebrarán en otoño de 2026! Nos encontramos en las primeras etapas de planificación de la conferencia, con la ayuda de nuestros colegas del LLILAS, el Instituto Lorenzo Long de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la UT. Pronto compartiremos las fechas y más detalles sobre nuestro tema: «Tikal y sus vecinos». Así que sintonicenos.

08/15/2025

04/01/2025

For those who were not able to attend this past 2025 Mesoamerica Meetings as either an in-person or virtual attendee, registration is now open to access our Online Video Archive! Once registered, you can view all recordings of our Symposium presentations from this past January. Cost to register is $15. Visit utmaya.org for more details.

**Please note: If you registered for this past 2025 Mesoamerica Meetings as an in-person or virtual attendee, you do not need to re-register for Video Archive Access. Information was emailed to all 2025 conference registrants on March 31 with details about accessing the streaming site.

02/19/2025

For those in Austin, we encourage you to attend this upcoming public presentation given by Fernando Aceves Humana on Friday, March 7 at 12:00pm at UT! This event is organized by our friends at Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and is co-sponsored by The Mesoamerica Center-University of Texas at Austin and CLAVIS-Center for Latin American Visual Studies, UT Austin. To learn more about Fernando Aceves Humana and his artwork, you can also visit his website: https://www.fernandoaceveshumana.net/printing-archelogic-collaborations

01/04/2025

Still haven't registered for The 2025 Mesoamerica Meetings?! Don't worry -- there's still time! Please visit our conference website for details on registration options: https://utmesoamerica.org/2025-mesoamerica-meetings

And for those wishing to attend in-person, when you register you can also purchase our conference t-shirt featuring a drawing by David Stuart of a moon ancestor from Yaxchilán, Stela 4. But hurry! In-person registration and t-shirt orders close on Monday, January 6th at 9:00am CST.

01/03/2025

We also want to give a shout out to our UT event partner, Texas Language Center, for collaborating with The Mesoamerica Meetings for a second year! Many thanks to our colleagues at TLC for their time and effort to help us organize a great conference for 2025.

01/02/2025

This year's Mesoamerica Meetings wouldn't be possible without the tremendous support we receive from our event sponsors and event partners. We'd like to give a special shout out to Ruta Maya Organic Coffee for their continued financial support of our conference activities. And, of course, for all the wonderful coffee they brew and serve for us during the Meetings! We're so grateful that we can kick-off our early conference mornings with a comforting tasa de café ☕.

01/01/2025

Happy New Year!! Want to hear what ancient Maya royalty have to say from beyond the grave? Join us on Saturday, Jan. 11th as UT’s own Dr. David Stuart presents "Receiving the Words of the Dead: Palenque’s Temple XVIII as an Ancient Maya Oracular Shrine", in which a jumbled pile of fallen hieroglyphs just served up some very fresh information (really!) about the third son of famous Palenque ruler Pakal. After playing the world's most complicated jigsaw puzzle with these ancient texts, Dr. Stuart and his team discovered something incredible about how the living and the dead communicated at Palenque. Don’t miss it! Registration information is available at https://utmesoamerica.org/registration-information-2025.

12/31/2024

Ever wondered if ancient Maya ancestors could clap back? Join us on Saturday, Jan. 11th for "Past to Present Maya Ancestral Power: A Relational Phenomenological Approach" by Dr. Miguel Astor–Aguilera of Arizona State University, where we'll explore how the Maya weren't (and aren’t) just talking to their ancestors - they were negotiating, sweet-talking, AND sometimes giving them the ancient equivalent of a time-out! Learn how people back then (and today!) maintain relationships with both visible and invisible beings. Spoiler alert: it's complicated! Registration information is available at https://utmesoamerica.org/registration-information-2025.

12/30/2024

Got ancestors? This talk does! On Saturday, Jan. 11th, join us as Dr. Joel Palka of Arizona State University presents “An Archaeology of Maya Souls: Ancestral Landscapes and Community at Protohistoric Mensabak, Chiapas, Mexico, 1500–1600 CE” to explore how Maya communities turned mountains into cosmic connection points! Learn how Maya people keep in touch with their ancestors through sacred landscapes. Registration information is available at https://utmesoamerica.org/registration-information-2025.