June 23 - August 3, 2002

Visit the 2004 NEH Institute “Mesoamerica and the Southwest: a New History for an Ancient Land,” sponsored by the Community College Humanities Association.

And visit the participant's photo album from the Maya World Institute of 2000

The Market at Chichicastenango    The Community College Humanties Association is sponsoring a six-week Institute (June 23-August 2002) for two-year and four-year college faculty devoted to on-site study of Precolumbian, colonial era, and contemporary Maya culture. Institute seminars will be based at regional study centers in Antigua (Guatemala), San Cristóbal and Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico), and Mérida (Yucatán, Mexico).             Twenty-five faculty selected from colleges and universities throughout the United States will have the opportunity to study Maya culture in the field with eighteen internationally known scholars and writers from a variety of humanities disciplines.             The six-week Institute will be based at first in the ancient colonial capital of Antigua, Guatemala from June 23- July 11, with field trips to the spectacular ancient Maya sites of Quiriguá, Iximche and Copán (Honduras), and to the contemporary Maya towns of San Antonio Aguas Calientes, Tecpán, Chichicastenango, and Santiago Atitlán. The Institute then moves to Chiapas, Mexico from July 11- 20, with seminars in the colonial capital of San Cristóbal de las Casas, and site visits to the ancient Maya sites at Palenque, Toniná, Bonampak and Yaxchilán, and to the modern Maya towns of Chamula, Zinacantan and Tenejapa. The final segment of the Institute will be based in the colonial capital of Mérida, Yucatán from July 21- August 3, with additional field trips to La Venta Olmec Park in Villahermosa, and the ancient Maya sites of Uxmal, Chichen Itzá, Izamal and Ek Balam in Yucatán. Palace at Palenque The Maya World: Cultural Traditions in Continuity and Change June 23-August 3, 2002 (6 weeks) Directors: George L. Scheper and Laraine Fletcher Faculty: Victoria Bricker, Raphael Cobos, Michael Coe, Maya Cu, Jan de Vos, Federico Fahsen, Gary Gossen, Gaspar Pedro Gonzalez, Carol Hendrickson, Jeff Kowalski, Robert Laughlin, Rebecca Gonzalez Lauck, George Lovell, Victor Montejo, Alfonso Morales and Julia Miller, Genny Negroe, Francisco Fernandez Repetto, Piedad Peniche Rivero, Sierra, Victor Stanzione, Information: David A. Berry, Executive Director Community College Humanities Association c/o Essex County College 303 University Avenue Newark, New Jersey 07102-1798 973-877-3577 dberry6@earthlink.net (Institute Locations: Antigua, Palenque, Mérida)