<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: arial; line-height: 18px; "><h1 style="font: italic normal normal 1.5em/1.1em Geogria, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(254, 181, 52); font-size: 2.25em; line-height: 1em; "><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; "></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Listeros,<br></font></span></font></span><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></span></font></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">You are cordially invited to attend the first annual Nahuatl Workshop entitled, "Issues in Nahua Identity and Language: Past and Present," Friday, May 1 - Saturday, May 2. 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A group of scholars from various disciplines will come together to present and discuss each other’s current research. Topics will include (but are not limited to): relationships between language and identity; problems of translation; interpretations of colonial narratives; and ethnography in contemporary Nahua communities. <span class="title_red" style="color: rgb(183, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; "><br><br>Schedule</span><br><span class="style8" style="color: rgb(12, 93, 149); ">Friday, May 1</span><br>2:00-3:00 pm: Jane Hill / Keynote address (University of Arizona) <br><em>Uto-Aztecan as a Mesoamerican Language Family: Implications for Understanding Aztecan and the Nahua </em><br>3:00 – 4:00 pm: Jacqueline Messing (LASC Fellow)<br><em>Identity and Narrative in Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico </em><br>4:00 – 5:00 pm: Jonathan Amith<em><br>The practice and politics of Nahuatl standardization: Local and national identity in conflict</em> <br>Dinner <br></p><p><span class="style8" style="color: rgb(12, 93, 149); ">Saturday, May 2 </span><br>9:00-10:00 am: Jim Maffie (LASC Fellow)<em><br>In Huehue Tlamanitiliztli and la Verdad: Philosophical Language and Identity in Friar Bernardino de Sahagún’s Colloquios y doctrina chistiana</em><br>10:00-11:00 am: Berenice Alcantra Rojas (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)<br><em>Authorship and Translation in Doctrinal Nahuatl Texts from the Colonial Period. <br></em>11:00-12:00 am: John Sullivan (University of Zacatecas)<em><br>The IDIEZ Project: Countering the Deculturization of Nahuas at Mexican Universities</em><br>12:00-1:00 pm: Alan Sandstrom & Pamela Sandstrom (Indiana University-Purdue)<em><br>Huastecan Nahua Ethnic Identity, Processes of Globalization, and the Protestant Invasion</em><br>Lunch & farewell</p></span></body></html>