Le centre pour le patrimoine culturel et linguistique “Encounters Between the Old and New Worlds” de l’université de Varsovie organise le premier colloque européen de nahuatl à la mémoire de James Lockhart¹.

Programme

Vendredi 17 novembre, 8:45-18:00

8:45 Inauguration
9:00-10:00 Keynote: John F. Schwaller. The Toxcatl and Panquetzaliztli figurines
Chair: Justyna Olko
10:00-10:15 Coffee break
Room 1 10:15-12:45 Chair: Michel Launey

• Michal Kuzmicki. Allomorphy in Classical Nahuatl: the distribution of the absolutive suffix -tl
• Magnus Pharao Hansen. Nahuatl dialect diversification through contact with Spanish
• Robert Borges. Methodological approaches to the study of five centuries of language change in Nahuatl
• John Sullivan. Morphological strategies for incorporating loanwords in the Nahuatl of Chicontepec, Veracruz
• Elwira Sobkowiak. Lessons to learn from analysis of texts in Nahuatl written by secondary school Students

Room 9 10:15-12:45 Chair: Agnieszka Brylak

• Peter Sorrensen. “Huexotzincayotl “ – the quality of being Huexotzincan
• Tara Malanga. “Maca xicnotlamati noyollo” – Don’t fool my heart – voices of anger and anguish in the ycnocuicatl
• Celso Mendoza. “The words, the breath of the altepetl” – Spanish and Nahua views of Huehuetlatolli, “the ancient speech” in Anales de Juan Bautista
• Caroline Egan. Other oralities: eating and weeping in colonial Nahuatl poetry
• Osiris Sinuhe González Romero. Mexico-Tenochtitlan in precolonial Nahuatl songs

12:45-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:00 Keynote: Michel Launey. Homenaje a la lengua nahuatl
Chair: Magnus Pharao Hansen
15:00-15:15 Coffee break
Room 9 15:15-16:45 Chair: John Sullivan

• Gabriel Kenrick Krüell. Vida y muerte en el mundo náhuatl: una reflexión en torno a las transformaciones ontológicas entre hombres y dioses en los textos nahuas recopilados por fray Bernardino de Sahagún
• Katarzyna Granicka. Christianizing the Nahua Otherworld – terms for heaven and hell in the 1548 Doctrina Christiana
• Eduardo de la Cruz. Miccailhuitl: ce tlaneltoquilli tlen naman

Room 1 15:15-16:45 Chair: Robert Borges

• Anastasia Kalyuta. Personal name as a social sign in Nahua prehispanic society
• Allison Caplan & Jeff Pynes. Queniuhcatic: Nahuatl color naming as an improvisational system
• Abelardo de la Cruz & Martha Mendoza. Ecological morphemes in Nahuatl and P’urhepecha: when the landscape becomes grammar

16:45-17:15 Coffee break
Room 9 17:00-18:00 Chair: John F. Schwaller

• David Tavárez. Nahua humanism, dissent, and indigenous publics in sixteenth-century New Spain
• Mark Lentz & Josh Beatty. Redefining “nahuatlahto” – Nahua and non-Nahua translators in Colonial Mesoamerica and beyonds
• Justyna Olko. Five centuries of Nahua-Spanish contact. Refining the understanding of stages of culture change
• Agnieszka Brylak & Julia Madajczak. Loans in Nahuatl: colonial vs. modern evidence
• Albert Davletshin. Nahuatl hieroglyphic script in the middle years: contact phenomena in texts of the early colonial period
• Szymon Gruda. Understanding the new through the old – parallels between Nahua and European cultural phenomena in the Ayer Vocabulario trilingüe

12:30-13:30 Lunch break
Room 9 13:30-15:00 Chair: Camilla Townsend

• Antje Gunsenheimer. Malintzin’s sisters and brothers: slavery in Aztec society
• Roger Magazine. Decolonizing anthropological approaches to Nahuatl social life through attention to local knowledge
• Benjamin Johnson. Fifty years of local finance in the altepetl of Chiautla ca. 1630-1680

Samedi 18 novembre, 9:00-17:30

9:00-10:00 Keynote: Camilla Townsend. The altepetl under the microscope. Or, how women’s history changes Nahua history
Chair: David Tavárez

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

• Justyna Olko. Five centuries of Nahua-Spanish contact. Refining the understanding of stages of culture change
• Agnieszka Brylak & Julia Madajczak. Loans in Nahuatl: colonial vs. modern evidence
• Albert Davletshin. Nahuatl hieroglyphic script in the middle years: contact phenomena in texts of the early colonial period
• Szymon Gruda. Understanding the new through the old – parallels between Nahua and European cultural phenomena in the Ayer Vocabulario trilingüe

12:30-13:30 Lunch break
Room 9 13:30-15:00 Chair: Camilla Townsend

• Antje Gunsenheimer. Malintzin’s sisters and brothers: slavery in Aztec society
• Roger Magazine. Decolonizing anthropological approaches to Nahuatl social life through attention to local knowledge
• Benjamin Johnson. Fifty years of local finance in the altepetl of Chiautla ca. 1630-1680

15:00-15:20 Coffee break
Room 9 15:20-17:10 Chair: Julia Madajczak

• Jerome Offner & Gordon Whittaker. Complex Glyphic Expression in the Corpus Xolotl
• Jessica Stair. Death, lineage, and the tree in Techialoyan manuscripts
• Javier Eduardo Ramírez López. El Mapa de Cline: una nueva propuesta metodológica de análisis

17:10 Final discussion and closure

Lieu

Dobra 72
University of Warsaw, Poland

Site du colloque : http://encounters.al.uw.edu.pl/enahuatl2017

1. “James Lockhart (historian)”, In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Disponible en ligne, url : <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Lockhart_(historian)&oldid=783656536>. [↩]