Since 1977, UT Austin has hosted The Maya Meetings, a four day annual workshop of epigraphic research, where teams and individual students and professors descend upon the Mesoamerican Center and pour over their year of research and offer papers and discussions of what decipherment has occurred. Of course the workshop has overlapped with the SXSW festival, allowing the participants to study the Maya by day and absorb the cutting edge of music film and recently interactive by night. This year, however, the meetings have been moved to Casa Herrera in Antigua, Guatemala, a sister facility of the Mesoamerican Center and will then alternate between there and Austin to ensure the linguistic distances between glyph and word are drawn closer together.

See you in Antigua!