[Aztlan] Nahuatl Workshop at U of Maryland, May 1-2

[John Sullivan, Ph.D.]

Nahua Workshop
University of Maryland, College Park
Friday, May 1- Saturday, May 2, 2009

Issues in Nahua Identity and Language: Past and Present
This interdisciplinary workshop will explore issues of identity and  
language among Nahuatl-speaking peoples from both historical and  
contemporary perspectives. 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.

Schedule
Friday, May 1
2:00-3:00 pm: Jane Hill / Keynote address (University of Arizona)
Uto-Aztecan as a Mesoamerican Language Family: Implications for  
Understanding Aztecan and the Nahua
3:00 – 4:00 pm: Jacqueline Messing (LASC Fellow)
Identity and Narrative in Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico
4:00 – 5:00 pm: Jonathan Amith
The practice and politics of Nahuatl standardization: Local and  
national identity in conflict
Dinner

Saturday, May 2
9:00-10:00 am: Jim Maffie (LASC Fellow)
In Huehue Tlamanitiliztli and la Verdad: Philosophical Language and  
Identity in Friar Bernardino de Sahagún’s Colloquios y doctrina  
chistiana
10:00-11:00 am: Berenice Alcantra Rojas (Universidad Nacional Autónoma  
de México)
Authorship and Translation in Doctrinal Nahuatl Texts from the  
Colonial Period.
11:00-12:00 am: John Sullivan (University of Zacatecas)
The IDIEZ Project: Countering the Deculturization of Nahuas at Mexican  
Universities
12:00-1:00 pm: Alan Sandstrom & Pamela Sandstrom (Indiana University- 
Purdue)
Huastecan Nahua Ethnic Identity, Processes of Globalization, and the  
Protestant Invasion
Lunch & farewell