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3 Ajaw 3 K’ank’in (December 18th, 2024)
Los Calendarios Mayas:
A Successful Online Conference!
From all of us at MAM to all of you, we wish you a very happy holiday season and a peaceful and joyous New Year! This has been a challenging year in many ways for many of us. For myself, it has been one of the most demanding semesters as a Department Chair and a professor, and our blogs have had to take a back seat. But we did have a very successful online conference last month on November 8th, and we hope to support more events like this in the future. I was graciously invited to present along with Maria Beatriz Par Sapon on our collective work on Maya calendrics. Maria Beatriz was presenting on historical records for the K’iche’ calendar, the Cholb’al Q’ij from 1722 which she has been undertaking with Saqijix, Candelaria Lopez. I presented my work on the evidence for the importance of midwives in the use and origination of the Maya day cartouche. Despite some minor technical glitches, the event was broadcast on Zoom to multiple campuses of Rafael Landivar University in Guatemala, with 335 people in attendance. Events like this are much easier to organize and fund than large Congresos, so we will be exploring the possibilities for these kinds of online conferences in the future.
Below we include a repoet from Conference Coordinator, Ajpub’ Pablo García Ixmata dated November 8, 2024, 2 Ahaw 3 Keh.
Now that the semester has come to a close, we will finally be starting our next fund drive and asking once again for financial support. Please stay tuned—we give thanks to all of you, and we are always very grateful for your help, and any contribution that you can make.
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Here’s wishing you, your families, and all of our Maya friends a wonderful holiday!
Sib’alaj Maltyox,
Michael Grofe, President
MAM
Ciudad de Guatemala, 11 de noviembre de 2024
Maya Antiguo para los Mayas
Michael Grofe
Presidente del MAM
Estimados señores,
A cordial greeting from the Ajtz’ib’ab’, on this day Jo’o’ Aq’ab’al. An excellent start to the week, hoping all is well in health, work, academic, and professional.
First, our apologies for the technical failure of both image and sound transmission that affected the presentation of our activity. A thousand apologies.
The reason for this report is to thank MAM for the support provided in the conference held on November 8 in the virtual and in-person modality. We are grateful for the topic and its new content, which was so interesting for everyone and related to the life and work of midwives and other Maya professionals.
This event was attended by students, cultural delegates and researchers from Rafael Landívar University and the general public. Below are numbers and photos of the participants.
- The invitation was shared 36 times on Facebook
- 60 people from the central campus of Rafael Landívar University in Guatemala City.
- 40 people from the Huehuetenango campus.
- 35 people from the Quiché campus
- 35 people from Antigua Guatemala
- 50 people from the Zacapa University campus.
- 70 people from the Quetzaltenango campus.
- 30 people from the Cobán campus.
The total number of participants across all venues and campuses is 335, including students, teachers, delegates and the general public.
Thank you very much for your support, dear friends.
Sincerely,
Ajpub’ Pablo García
Coordinator
Ajtz’ib’ab’ Team
Photos from the conference
60 people from the central campus of Rafael Landívar University, Guatemala City.
40 people from the Huehuetenango campus.
35 people from Antigua, Guatemala
50 people from the Quiché campus.
50 people from the Universidad de Zacapa.
70 people from Quetzaltenango.
30 people from the Cobán campus.
The invitation was shared 36 times on Facebook.