Sahagun Conference - Chicago

[John F. Schwaller]

Sahag=FAn Quincentennial Symposium
October 15-16, 1999
Newberry Library

This two-day symposium will honor the life and work of Franciscan friar,
Bernardino de Sahag=FAn (1499-1590).  Sahag=FAn's work stands as a written
legacy of an intellectual effort without parallel. In collaboration with
native informants, scribes, and artists, Sahag=FAn compiled a multi-volume
work on preconquest religion, life, and language  concerning preconquest
life in the Valley of Mexico.=20

Scholars from diverse disciplines including linguistics, theology, history,
ethnohistory and art history will gather at the Newberry Library to discuss
the impact of Sahag=FAn work in three half-day sessions, The Historical
Context of Sahag=FAn in Spain and the Americas, Sahag=FAn's Cultural and
Historical Manuscripts and Sahag=FAn Cultural and Linguistic Works.  Miguel
Le=F3n Portilla will deliver the keynote address on Friday evening. In
addition, the Newberry Library's excellent collection of Sahag=FAn documents
will be on display. =20

The symposium will be followed by a one-day workshop for teachers to be
hosted on the University of Chicago campus in late October.

Participants: Ellen Baird, University of Illinois at Chicago, Elizabeth
Boone, Tulane University, Thomas Bremer, Princeton University,  David
Boruchoff, McGill University, Walden Browne, Independent Scholar, Louise
Burkhart, State University of New York at Albany, Tom Cummins, University
of Chicago, Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo, Universidad Nacional Aut=F3noma de
M=E9xico, John Fleming, Princeton University, Diana Margaloni, Universidad
Nacional Aut=F3noma de M=E9xico/Yale University, H.B. Nicholson, University =
of
California, Los Angeles, Tamar Herzog, University of Chicago, Francisco
Morales, Franciscan Scholar, Instituto Franciscano de Filosof=EDa y Teolog=
=EDa,
Jeanette Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara, Miguel Le=F3n
Portilla, Universidad Nacional Aut=F3noma de M=E9xico, Susan Schroeder, Tula=
ne
University, John Frederick Schwaller, Academy of American Franciscan=
 History.

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For more information please contact:    		For more details email us at:  =20

Center for Latin American Studies			clas at uchicago.edu
University of Chicago
5848 S. University Avenue			=09
Chicago, IL 60637		=09
773-702-8420 o 773-702-1755 fax		=09


Generously funded by:

The Academy of American Franciscan History, the Center for Renaissance
Studies, Newberry Library through funding from Loyola University, the
University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago, the Franke
Institute for the Humanities, the Instituto Cervantes, the US Department of
Education, Title VI/NRC Program and the William and Flora Hewlett=
 Foundation.=20




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