Sahagun Conference papers

[John F. Schwaller]

Information on the Sahag=FAn Symposium,
Newberry Library, Chicago,
15-16 October, 1999.

The event is free and open to the public.  Please find
below the current program agenda (final revisions pending).
We would be very grateful if you could forward the information
to other interested parties. =20

BERNARDINO DE SAHAG=DAN:
SPAIN AND AMERICA, 1499-1999
OCTOBER 15-16, 1999

AGENDA
October 15, 1999
Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street

9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Viewing of Sahag=FAn manuscripts throughout the day.


Opening Remarks
    Tom Cummins, University of Chicago

Morning Session: The Historical Context of Sahag=FAn in Spain and
the Americas

The Historia General of Bernardino de Sahag=FAn and the Genres of
       Franciscan Literature
    John Fleming, Princeton University

Sahag=FAn and the Disintegration of Medieval Structures of
       Knowledge
    Walden Browne, University of Arizona

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    Elizabeth Boone, Tulane University

Tracking the Sahag=FAn Legacy: Collections and Repositories
    John Frederick Schwaller, Academy of American Franciscan
    History

Commentary
    Tamar Herzog, University of Chicago

Afternoon Session: Sahag=FAn's Cultural and Historical Manuscripts

Sahag=FAn and the Representation of History
    Ellen Baird, University of Illinois, Chicago

Visualizing the Nahua/Christian Dialogue: Images of the Conquest
       and their Sources
    Diana Magaloni, Universidad Nacional Aut=F3noma de M=E9xico/Yale
       University

Crafting the Self: The Arts in the Florentine Codex
    Jeanette Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Painters of Sahag=FAn's Manuscripts: Mediators between Two
       Worlds
    Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo, Universidad Nacional Aut=F3noma de
    M=E9xico

Sahag=FAn's Itemization of the Structures of the Templo Mayor
       Precint of Mexico   Tenochtitlan: "Legend" of a Lost
       Diagram?
    H.B. Nicholson, University of California, Los Angeles

Commentary
    Tom Cummins, University of Chicago

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Reception and Keynote Address
Instituto Cervantes, John Hancock Center, 875 North Michigan
Avenue, Suite 2940

Keynote Address (followed by a reception)
Bernardino de Sahag=FAn: Pioneer of Anthropology
    Miguel Le=F3n Portilla, Universidad Nacional Aut=F3noma de M=E9xico

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October 16, 1999
Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Final Session: Sahag=FAn's Theological and Linguistic Works

Sahag=FAn and the Imagination of Inter-religious Dialogues
    Thomas Bremer, Princeton University

On the Margins of Legitimacy: Sahag=FAn's *Psalmodia* and the
       Latin Liturgy
    Louise Burkhart, State University of New York at Albany

Sahag=FAn and the Theology of Missionary Life
    David Boruchoff, McGill University

Theological Framework of Sahag=FAn's *Doctrina
       Christiana* in the Coloquios of 1524
    Francisco Morales, Instituto Franciscano de Filosof=EDa y
    Teolog=EDa

Commentary
    Susan Schroeder, Tulane University

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