Nahua Workshop
May 1- May 2, 2009
St. Mary's Hall - Multipurpose room
University of Maryland, College Park
Issues in Nahua Identity and Language: Past and Present
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?
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
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 |
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| 3:30 pm | Jacqueline Messing (LASC Fellow) Identity and Narrative in Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico |
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| 4:00 pm | Jonathan Amith (Gettysburg College) The Practice and Politics of Nahuatl Standardization: Local and National Identity in Conflict |
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| 4:30 pm | Commentator: Willard Gingerich (Montclair State University) | ||
Saturday, May 2 |
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| 8:45 am | Breakfast | ||
| 9:15 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 |
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| 9:45 am | 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 |
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| 10:15 am | Commentator: Alejandro Cañeque (University of Maryland) | ||
| 10:30 am | Break | ||
| 10:45 am | Alan & Pamela Sandstrom (Indiana University-Purdue) Huastecan Nahua Ethnic Identity, Processes of Globalization, and the Protestant Invasion |
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| 11:15 am | John Sullivan (University of Zacatecas) The IDIEZ Project: Countering the Deculturization of Nahuas at Mexican Universities |
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| 11:45 am | Commentator: Frances Rothstein (Montclair State University) | ||
| LODGING Participants should plan on paying for their own lodging. Please contact the Holiday Inn and Quality Inn directly. We will make reservations for the Marriott. This hotel is located on the grounds of the University of Maryland campus, and is offering us a special rate of $99.00 + tax. You must RSVP to lgoulias@umd.edu by Monday, April 6, to secure the conference price. |
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| 1. Marriott Inn & Conference Center University of Maryland, University College 3501 University Blvd E. Adelphi, MD 20783 https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/wasum-the-inn-and-conference-center-university-of-maryland-university-college/ |
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| 2. Holiday Inn College Park 10000 Baltimore Avenue College Park, MD 20740 http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/1/en/hotel/wascb |
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| 3. Quality Inn & Suites 7200 Baltimore Blvd. College Park, MD, US, 20740 http://www.qualityinn.com/hotel-college_park-maryland-MD021?promo=gglocal |
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TRANSPORTATION & PARKING Visitor information can be found at: http://www.transportation.umd.edu/visitor/campusmap.html If you have questions, please contact Leticia Goulias at lgoulias@umd.edu |
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