THURSDAY, April 27, 2023

8:30 – 9:00      Registration

9:00 - 9:30       Julia Madajczak. The Water and the Sand. Journeys through the Otherworld(s).

9:30 - 10:00     Katarzyna Mikulska. Tlilli tlapalli, the colors of Quetzalcoatl.

10:00 - 10:30   Molly Harbour Bassett. Tetl: Stone, Heart, Seed.

10:30 - 10:45   BREAK

10:45 - 11:15   James Maffie. The Tonalamatl and the Day-Number-Persons of Time.

11:15 - 12:15   Joe Campbell. Difficult words.

12:15 - 1:15     LUNCH

1:15 - 1:45       Heungtae Yang. The Aztec Long Count: The Lost Mexica Time Computation & Five Suns Story.

1:45 - 2:15       Alessandro Ramón Moscarítolo Palacio. The Metaphysical Roots of Nahua Environmental Philosophy.

2:45 - 3:15       Iris Montero. The Guardian of the Sacred Bundle: An Anonymous Woman Migrant in the Codex Azcatitlan.

3:15 - 3:30       BREAK

3:30 - 3:45       Katarzyna Szoblik. "Our lords with songs are mourned." Possible ritual contexts of the chosen songs of

                        Cantares mexicanos.

3:45 - 4:15       Veronica Rodriguez. Tlaxcala and Tlatelolco: Pictorial Representations on the Wars of the Conquest.

4:15 - 5:15       Agnieszka Brylak. The Nahuatl arte de injuriar: pre-Hispanic and early colonial insults and some interpretive

                        challenges they bring about.

5:30 – 7:30      RECEPTION: Music Room of Rochambeau House, 84 Prospect St.

                        Hosted by the Department of Hispanic Studies

FRIDAY, April 28, 2023

9:00 - 9:30       Jorge Arredondo. Una nueva fuente guadalupana: Juan Diego en el Códice Tlatelolco.

9:30 - 10:00     Carlos Macías Prieto. Chimalpahin’s Project of Regeneration as an Alternative to Christian Friars’

                        Histories of Ethnocide.

10:00 - 10:30   Ben Leeming. Auh inic monahuaihtoa quihtoznequi…‘In the language of the Nahuas they mean’: Biblical

                        translation in Ayer Ms. 1485, the Americas’ first sermons.

10:30 - 10:45   BREAK

10:45 - 11:15   Isabel Farías Velasco. Making the Old World New: the Translations of the ‘Vocabulario trilingüe”. 

11:15 - 12:15   Mary Elizabeth Haude and Barbara E. Mundy. The Codex Quetzalecahtzin.

12:15 - 1:15     LUNCH

1:15 - 1:45       Andrew Laird. Exogenous interference in the Florentine Codex: Humanist learning and the Nahuatl text.

1:45 - 2:15       Javier Eduardo Ramírez López. In the Footsteps of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún's Administration at

                        the Imperial College of Tlatelolco.

2:15 - 2:45       Magnus Pharao Hansen and Paja Faudree. Pedro Arenas' "Vocabulario Manual" as a window to colonial

                        chronotopes.

2:45 - 3:15       BREAK

3:15 – 4:00      Frances Karttunen. Description as a Foundation for Explanation: Nahuatl in Contact with Spanish.

4:00 - 5:00       Gordon Whittaker. Nahuatl Glyph Seminar.

5.30 – 6.30      VIEWING OF NAHUATL TEXTS: John Carter Brown Library, George St

7:30 – 9:00      DINNER: Flatbread Company, 161 Cushing St

SATURDAY, April 29, 2023

9:00 - 9:30       Joanna Maryniak. Local Nahuatl toponymy and microhistorical snapshots in San Miguel Tenango

                        land ownership records.

9:30 - 10:00     Maríajosé Rodríguez Pliego. Malintzin of the Forest: Remembering the Interpreter Through Contemporary

                        Nahua Storytelling.

10:00 - 10:30   Szymon Gruda, Joanna Maryniak, and Justyna Olko. Nahuatl: lingua franca or local competitor? Toward a

                        spacial history of Mesoamerican multilingualism.

10:30 - 10:45   BREAK

10:45 - 11:15   Justyna Olko. Huel tecoco tetolini totech ahci amo ticpiah atl, “Great suffering falls upon us as we have

                        no water." Environmental justice and water rights in Tlaxcala.

11:15 - 12: 15  Maria Bartosz, Justyna Olko, John Sullivan. Document session on some difficult passages from a set of late

                        seventeenth-century petitions from Colima (Ixtlahuacan and Santiago Tecoman).

12:15 - 1:15     LUNCH

1:15 - 1:45       John Sullivan. Contact-induced morphosyntactic complexification in Nahuatl.

1:45 - 2:15       Cecilia Solis Barroso. Negation Variability in Huasteca Nahuatl.

2:15 - 2:45       Gregory Haimovich. Revisiting (and Redefining) the Nahuatl Dialectal Map of Western Sierra Norte de Puebla.

2:45 - 3:00       BREAK

3:00 - 4:00       Beth M. Bouloukos and Allison Levy. Publishing translations and editing new editions of historical texts. 

                                                                                                [CLOSE OF CONFERENCE]

“Nahuatl Texts and Contexts” has been hosted jointly by the Association of Nahuatl Scholars and by the Brown University Center for the Study of the Early Modern World.

The organizers are deeply grateful to the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, the Brown Humanities Faculty Lectureship Fund, as well as to the Department of Classics, the Department of Hispanic Studies, and the Center for Language Studies at Brown for generous support which made this conference possible.