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<p>Skskyler: Chaos and Cosmography at the Huey Teocalli of Mexico-Tenochtitlan</p> <hr /> <div>from:<br /> Shawn K. Schuyler<br /> Graduate Student at Syracuse University,<br /> Dept. of Religion, Ph.D. program<br /> <br /> <br /> Please accept my apology if this first-timer is not communicating appropriately via Wiki.<br /> <br /> I'm simply seeking to initiate contact with someone organizing this Cognition and Cosmology project.<br /> <br /> It seems I've missed the main event; is it still possible to participate?<br /> <br /> [my MA thesis (Miami University, Oxford, OH 2003) and upcoming Ph.D. dissertation center around <br /> complex adaptive systems approaches to the Aztec Templo Mayor (the Huey-Teocalli or 'Great God-<br /> House' of Mexico-Tenochtitlan)<br /> <br /> thus for the last several years I've been applying complex adaptive systems science to problems of <br /> interpretation and explanation in HR (the History of Religions)--esp. re: Aztec mythic, ritual, and <br /> cosmographic material]<br /> <br /> I'd greatly appreciate the chance to share some of this work with others who do chaos and complexity. My post-doc ambitions re: computer modeling of such phenomena would surely benefit from engagement with folks from the Institute.<br /> <br /> <br /> Additionally, I'd like to propose a panel for the November 2007 American Academy of Religions meeting in San Diego. This panel would focus on applications of chaos and complexity science to comparative modeling of religious-studies phenomena [and here the topics are open; though myth, ritual, cosmology, and material/symbolic relations between humans and landscapes are central concerns]. My hope is to attract a range of methodologies: from hermeneutical interpretation to more 'rigorous' (well-defined?) computer modeling and mathematics. Would anyone at the Institute consider contributing a paper or talk?<br /> <br /> <br /> Thank You,<br /> <br /> Shawn K. Schuyler<br /> skskyler@verizon.net<br /> h: 315/426-1591<br /> c: 315/278-7359</div>

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