Association of Nahuatl Scholars

Nahuatl Scholars

The Association of Nahuatl Scholars is an interdisciplinary organization of academics, teachers, and students dedicated to the study of Classical and Modern variants of the Nahuatl language, as well as pre-Contact, colonial, and contemporary Nahua culture. First convened in 2008, the ANS annual meeting is the longest running conference devoted to the Nahuatl language and Nahua culture.
Email: nahuatlconference@gmail.com

Annual Meeting

Traditionally, the meetings unfold over three days in morning and afternoon sessions and include the presentation of conference papers. Interspersed with presentations, one of the unique features of these gatherings are “document sessions” where presenters share difficult Nahuatl texts and the whole group works collaboratively to help translate them. Participants come from all over the US, as well as Mexico, Japan, and various European countries. Native Nahuatl speakers are frequently join us and their presence greatly enriches our meetings. Graduate students are especially welcome, and we encourage them to engage with senior scholars through giving papers, participating in document sessions, and informal conversation. In recent years we have hosted approximately 50 attendees.

Call for Papers for the 2025 meeting

Call for PapersAnnual Meeting of the Association of Nahuatl Scholars
The Association of Nahuatl Scholars 2025 meeting will be held April 24-26 at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
In preparing for the meeting, the Association seeks two types of presentations.
Nahuatl Documents:As always, we hope that a significant portion of the time will be dedicated to the group study of original Nahuatl language manuscripts. This is a unique opportunity in which most of the leading scholars of Nahuatl collaborate to assist with difficult words and passages. Submissions of documents or passages for analysis are strongly encouraged. These sessions will be allotted one hour each. Please include a 250-word abstract with the proposal.
Scholarly Presentations:Those interested in presenting a scholarly research paper on some aspect of Nahuatl, Nahua ethnohistory, art history of the Nahua, or any other topic having to do with Nahuatl, or the Nahua are asked to submit a proposal. Please include a 250-word abstract with the proposal. Each presentation should be twenty minutes long and allow for at least ten minutes of discussion.
Scholars interested in presenting may now send in their proposals. The deadline this year will be February 1, 2025. Successful proposals will be notified by February 15. After that, proposals will be accepted on a space-available basis. This will be an in-person meeting for all presenters.
To submit proposals and for more information contact: nahuatlconference@gmail.com
The Directors of the Association are:John F. Schwaller (jfschwaller@gmail.com)Louise Burkhart John Sullivan Catarina PizzigoniBen Leeming Ben Johnson Andrew Laird Szymon GrudaBarbara MundyAgnieszka BrylakAbelardo de la CruzGalen BrokawMolly H. Bassett