Nahua Workshop, May 1-2, 2009

[John F. Schwaller]

May 1-May 2
Nahua Workshop
"Issues in Nahua Identity and Language: Past and Present"
University of Maryland
This interdisciplinary workshop will explore current research on
identity and language among Nahuatl-speakers from historical and
contemporary perspectives. Scholars will explore a variety of ways of
conceptualizing the relation between Nahuatl-speakers and colonial and
national Mexican society and institutions. How has religious ideology,
schooling, or the creation of written texts mediated the creation of
identities? Papers will also explore the challenges of using
ethnography or using textual analysis to understand the nature of
intercultural relations and of social and linguistic change. To what
extent do ethnographic fieldwork or textual sources allow scholars to
recognize and conceptualize change in Nahuatl-speaking communities and
peoples?
Friday, May 1
2:00 pm
Jane Hill / Keynote address (University of Arizona)
Uto-Aztecan as a Mesoamerican Language Family: Implications for
Understanding Aztecan and the Nahua
3:30 pm
Jacqueline Messing (LASC Fellow)
Identity and Narrative in Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico
4:00 pm
Jonathan Amith
The practice and politics of Nahuatl standardization: Local and
national identity in conflict
4:30 pm
Comment
Saturday, May 2
8:45 am
Breakfast
9:15
Jim Maffie (LASC Fellow)
In Huehue Tlamanitiliztli and la Verdad: Philosophical Language and
Identity in Friar Bernardino de Sahagún’s Colloquios y doctrina
chistiana
9:45
Berenice Alcantra Rojas (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Authorship and Translation in Doctrinal Nahuatl Texts from the
Colonial Period.
10:15 Comment, Alejandro Cañeque, Department of
History, University of Maryland, College Park
10:30
Break
10:45
Alan & Pamela Sandstrom (Indiana University-Purdue)
Huastecan Nahua Ethnic Identity, Processes of Globalization, and the
Protestant Invasion
11:15
John Sullivan (University of Zacatecas)
The IDIEZ Project: Countering the Deculturization of Nahuas at Mexican
Universities
St. Mary's Hall - Multipurpose room
University of Maryland, College Park
11:45
Comment
http://www.lasc.umd.edu/Events/Workshops.html




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