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“Nahuatl Texts and Contexts”
Association of Nahuatl Scholars Conference
SCHEDULE
April 27-29, 2023
For information contact nahuatlconference@gmail.com
Hosted by
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World
Brown University
Providence, RI
All times and presenters are subject to change.
Thursday, April 27, 2023
9:00 - 9:30 Julia Madajczak. The Water and the Sand. Journeys through the Otherworld(s)
9:30 - 10:00 Katarzyna Mikulska. Tlilli tlapalli, the colors of Quetzalcoatl.
10:00 - 10:30 Molly Harbour Bassett. Tetl: Stone, Heart, Seed
10:30 - 10:45 BREAK
10:45 - 11:15 James Maffie. The Tonalamatl and the Day-Number-Persons of Time
11:15 - 12:15 Joe Campbell. Difficult words
12:15 - 1:15 LUNCH
1:15 - 1:45 Heungtae Yang. The Aztec Long Count: The Lost Mexica Time Computation & Five Suns Story.
1:45 - 2:15 Alessandro Ramón Moscarítolo Palacio. The Metaphysical Roots of Nahua Environmental Philosophy.
2:45 - 3:15 Iris Montero. The Guardian of the Sacred Bundle: An Anonymous Woman Migrant in the Codex Azcatitlan.
3:15 - 3:30 BREAK
3:30 - 3:45 Katarzyna Szoblik. "Our lords with songs are mourned." Possible ritual contexts of the chosen songs of Cantares mexicanos.
3:45 - 4:15 Veronica Rodriguez. Tlaxcala and Tlatelolco: Pictorial Representations on the Wars of the Conquest.
4:15 - 5:15 Agnieszka Brylak. The Nahuatl arte de injuriar: pre-Hispanic and early colonial insults and some interpretive challenges they bring about
Friday, April 28, 2023
9:00 - 9:30 Jorge Arredondo. Una nueva fuente guadalupana: Juan Diego en el Códice Tlatelolco
9:30 - 10:00 Carlos Macías Prieto. “Chimalpahin’s Project of Regeneration as an Alternative to Christian Friars’ Histories of Ethnocide.
10:00 - 10:30 Ben Leeming. Auh inic monahuaihtoa quihtoznequi…‘In the language of the Nahuas they mean’: Biblical translation in Ayer Ms. 1485, the Americas’ first sermons.
10:30 - 10:45 BREAK
10:45 - 11:15 Isabel Farías Velasco. Making the Old World New: the Translations of the Vocabulario trilingüe.
11:15 - 12:15 Mary Elizabeth Haude and Barbara E. Mundy. The Codex Quetzalecahtzin
12:15 - 1:15 LUNCH
1:15 - 1:45 Andrew Laird. Exogenous interference in the Florentine Codex: Humanist learning and the Nahuatl text.
1:45 - 2:15 Javier Eduardo Ramírez López. In the Footsteps of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún's Administration at the Imperial College of Tlatelolco.
2:15 - 2:45 Magnus Pharao Hansen and Paja Faudree. Pedro Arenas' "Vocabulario Manual" as a window to colonial chronotopes.
2:45 - 3:00 BREAK
3:00 - 3:30 Frances Karttunen. Description as a Foundation for Explanation: Nahuatl in Contact with Spanish.
3:30 - 4:15 Katarzyna Granicka. Facing the loss of the common lands. Indigenous communities’ responses to 1856 Ley Lerdo in the region of Tlaxcala.
4:15 - 5:15 Gordon Whittaker. Nahuatl Glyph Seminar
Saturday, April 29, 2023
9:00 - 9:30 Joanna Maryniak. Local Nahuatl toponymy and microhistorical snapshots in San Miguel Tenango land ownership records.
9:30 - 10:00 Maríajosé Rodríguez Pliego. Malintzin of the Forest: Remembering the Interpreter Through Contemporary Nahua Storytelling
10:00 - 10:30 Szymon Gruda, Joanna Maryniak, and Justyna Olko. Nahuatl: lingua franca or local competitor? Toward a spatial history of Mesoamerican multilingualism.
10:30 - 10:45 BREAK
10:45 - 11:15 Justyna Olko. Huel tecoco tetolini totech ahci amo ticpiah atl, “Great suffering falls upon us as we have no water.” Environmental justice and water rights in Tlaxcala
11:15 - 12: 15 Maria Bartosz*, Justyna Olko, John Sullivan. Document session on some difficult passages from a set of late seventeenth-century petitions from Colima (Ixtlahuacan and Santiago Tecoman)
12:15 - 1:15 LUNCH
1:15 - 1:45 John Sullivan. Contact induced morphosyntactic complexification in Nahuatl
1:45 - 2:15 Cecilia Solis Barroso. Negation Variability in Huasteca Nahuatl.
2:15 - 2:45 Gregory Haimovich. Revisiting (and Redefining) the Nahuatl Dialectal Map of Western Sierra Norte de Puebla
2:45 - 3:00 BREAK
3:00 - 4:00 Beth M. Bouloukos and Allison Levy. Publishing translations and editing new editions of historical texts.
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