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.
The meeting this year will be at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, April 24-26, read on below
Email: nahuatlconference@gmail.com
2025 Annual Meeting Draft Agenda
Association of Nahuatl Scholars ConferenceSCHEDULEApril 24-26, 2025For information contact nahuatlconference@gmail.com
Hosted byCenter for Latin American and Caribbean StudiesDepartments of History, Art History, Religious Studies, and Spanish and PortugueseUniversity of KansasLawrence, KSWith additional funding from:Departamento de Asuntos CulturalesConsulado de México en Kansas City
Forum DBurge Union, 1565 Irving Hil Rd.https://maps.app.goo.gl/gntquSvGL7gg6zyeAUniversity of Kansas
Thursday, April 24
8:30 - 9:20 Registration
9:20 - 9:30 Welcome
9:30 - 10:00 Agnieszka Brylak, Tloque Nahuaque: a philological approach to a Nahuatl couplet
10:00 - 10:30 Benjamin Johnson, Landscape and Politics in the Codex Xolotl
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK
11:00 - 11:30 Veronica Rodriguez, The Economics of War: Indigenous Allies Sustaining the Spanish Army
11:30 - 12:00 Carlos Macías Prieto, Reconsidering the Browning Manuscript: Chimalpahin’s Transcription of Francisco López de Gómara’s La conquista de México (1552) as a Celebration of Spanish Conquest?
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 - 1:30 Sponsored Address - Barbara Mundy, How maguey conquered amatl and Nahua communities lost their pasts.
1:30- 2:00 Ben Leeming, Manuscript Genealogies: Mapping the Branches of the Nahuatl Lectionary Corpus.
2:00 - 2:30 Andrew Laird, A unique translation from Nahuatl to Latin in context: Bernardino Biondelli and the Milan lectionary
2:30 - 3:30 Document Session: John Sullivan and R. Joe Campbell, Tough words
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:30 Jorge Arredondo, Aztec Interpretations of the Sacred Tilma. A Nahua Iconographical Reading of Our Lady of Guadalupe
4:30 - 5:00 Andrea Reed-Leal, The knowledge and Craft of Nahua Women Makers of Cacao Drinks in Sixteenth Century Mexico
Friday, April 25
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Szymon Gruda, Early Modern language ideologies and Indigenous languages of Mesoamerica
9:30 - 10:00 Andrea Maria D’Amato, From tetzahuitl to agüeros, señales, pronósticos, embustes. Translation and Classification in the Florentine Codex through the Lens of Early Modern Iberian Anti-Divinatory Polemics
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:00 Montserrat Mancisidor-Ortega and Carlos Roberto Galaviz-Sánchez, Christian (Re)definition of the Joyfulness-Suffering Dichotomy among Nahuas of central Mexico of the 16th Century
11:00 - 11:30 Mark Christensen, Removing Christ from the Cross in Three Nahuatl Texts: Indigenous Words, Phrases, and Understandings
11:30 - 12:00 Mauro Alberto Mendoza Posadas, The Dynamics of Nahuatl Historiography mirrored in Language: Direct and Indirect Reported Speech (16-17th centuries)
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 - 1:30 Sponsored Address. Jacinta Toribio Torres, Sentikatlatlemolistli: Investigación colaborativa con mujeres nahuas de la Huasteca veracruzana.
1:30 - 2:30 Document Session. John F. Schwaller, and co-editors, Tough words in Molina's "Life of St. Francis"
2:30 - 3:00 Joanna Maryniak & Justyna Olko, The invention of Classical Nahuatl and the tenacity of the concept
3:00 - 3:30 BREAK
3:30 - 4:00 Eduardo de la Cruz, El oficio de especialistas rituales nahuas: caso de una curandera en Chicontepec
4:00 - 4:30 Justyna Olko, School-based discrimination and violence against Nahua children and youth. A diachronic perspective
4:30 - 5:30 Movie NightMeteorito by Mauricio Sáenz 201815 min.Hombres pájaro sufren misteriosas caídas en la búsqueda de donde nace el sol. Una realidad alterada através de ritos que confluyen en un objetivo: morir para generar vida.Bird men suffer mysterious falls in the search for where the sun rises. An altered reality through rites that converge in one objective: die to generate life
Mujer de tierra by Evelyn Mercedes Muñoz Marroquín 202115 minEn la comunidad nahua de Hueyapan, Puebla, coexisten los relatos de una generación de mujeres que han desafiado los límites sociales; a través de sus bordados, la rebeldía y el amor propio, se unen para transformarse a sí mismas y cambiar el rumbo de su historia.In the nahua community of Hueyapan, Puebla, we encounter the stories of a generation of women that have challenged society. Through their embroidery work, their innate rebelliousness and their self-belief, they have joined forces to transform themselves and the history of their own community.
6:30 - 9:00 Banquet. Trinity Episcopal Church, Parish Hall, 1011 Vermont St.
Saturday, April 26
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Verónica Pacheco, Singing Devotional Prayers at the Postectli Mountain’s foothill
9:30 - 10:00 Katarzyna Granicka & Justyna Olko, Indigenous responses to environmental violence and social injustice. Some insights from Nahuatl-language petitions
10:00 - 10:30 BREAK
10:30 - 11:30 Document Session. Ben Leeming, Say Hello to Your New, Hallucinating Assistant: Evaluating AI capabilities in Colonial Nahuatl Translation.
11:30 - 12:00 Joanna Maryniak, Creation and adaptation of pictorial dictionaries of Nahuatl to the needs of various communities
12:00 - 12:30 Abelardo de la Cruz. Tiotlahtolli huan huehuetlahtolli: Biblical lessons of the Motiochihuanih from Chicontepec
Conference feeAs in some past years, we are asking participants to make a $50 donation to the association. For those folks who receive reimbursement from their university or sponsor, when requested we will issue a receipt that will list it as a "Conference fee." Students and faculty of the University of Kansas are granted free access. Graduate students and others who might have limited means may contribute however much they wish. Please use this QR code or link to our PayPal account, filling in the amount.
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=CF769VKTHSM7N
Hosted byCenter for Latin American and Caribbean StudiesDepartments of History, Art History, Religious Studies, and Spanish and PortugueseUniversity of KansasLawrence, KSWith additional funding from:Departamento de Asuntos CulturalesConsulado de México en Kansas City
Forum DBurge Union, 1565 Irving Hil Rd.https://maps.app.goo.gl/gntquSvGL7gg6zyeAUniversity of Kansas
Thursday, April 24
8:30 - 9:20 Registration
9:20 - 9:30 Welcome
9:30 - 10:00 Agnieszka Brylak, Tloque Nahuaque: a philological approach to a Nahuatl couplet
10:00 - 10:30 Benjamin Johnson, Landscape and Politics in the Codex Xolotl
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK
11:00 - 11:30 Veronica Rodriguez, The Economics of War: Indigenous Allies Sustaining the Spanish Army
11:30 - 12:00 Carlos Macías Prieto, Reconsidering the Browning Manuscript: Chimalpahin’s Transcription of Francisco López de Gómara’s La conquista de México (1552) as a Celebration of Spanish Conquest?
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 - 1:30 Sponsored Address - Barbara Mundy, How maguey conquered amatl and Nahua communities lost their pasts.
1:30- 2:00 Ben Leeming, Manuscript Genealogies: Mapping the Branches of the Nahuatl Lectionary Corpus.
2:00 - 2:30 Andrew Laird, A unique translation from Nahuatl to Latin in context: Bernardino Biondelli and the Milan lectionary
2:30 - 3:30 Document Session: John Sullivan and R. Joe Campbell, Tough words
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:30 Jorge Arredondo, Aztec Interpretations of the Sacred Tilma. A Nahua Iconographical Reading of Our Lady of Guadalupe
4:30 - 5:00 Andrea Reed-Leal, The knowledge and Craft of Nahua Women Makers of Cacao Drinks in Sixteenth Century Mexico
Friday, April 25
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Szymon Gruda, Early Modern language ideologies and Indigenous languages of Mesoamerica
9:30 - 10:00 Andrea Maria D’Amato, From tetzahuitl to agüeros, señales, pronósticos, embustes. Translation and Classification in the Florentine Codex through the Lens of Early Modern Iberian Anti-Divinatory Polemics
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:00 Montserrat Mancisidor-Ortega and Carlos Roberto Galaviz-Sánchez, Christian (Re)definition of the Joyfulness-Suffering Dichotomy among Nahuas of central Mexico of the 16th Century
11:00 - 11:30 Mark Christensen, Removing Christ from the Cross in Three Nahuatl Texts: Indigenous Words, Phrases, and Understandings
11:30 - 12:00 Mauro Alberto Mendoza Posadas, The Dynamics of Nahuatl Historiography mirrored in Language: Direct and Indirect Reported Speech (16-17th centuries)
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 - 1:30 Sponsored Address. Jacinta Toribio Torres, Sentikatlatlemolistli: Investigación colaborativa con mujeres nahuas de la Huasteca veracruzana.
1:30 - 2:30 Document Session. John F. Schwaller, and co-editors, Tough words in Molina's "Life of St. Francis"
2:30 - 3:00 Joanna Maryniak & Justyna Olko, The invention of Classical Nahuatl and the tenacity of the concept
3:00 - 3:30 BREAK
3:30 - 4:00 Eduardo de la Cruz, El oficio de especialistas rituales nahuas: caso de una curandera en Chicontepec
4:00 - 4:30 Justyna Olko, School-based discrimination and violence against Nahua children and youth. A diachronic perspective
4:30 - 5:30 Movie NightMeteorito by Mauricio Sáenz 201815 min.Hombres pájaro sufren misteriosas caídas en la búsqueda de donde nace el sol. Una realidad alterada através de ritos que confluyen en un objetivo: morir para generar vida.Bird men suffer mysterious falls in the search for where the sun rises. An altered reality through rites that converge in one objective: die to generate life
Mujer de tierra by Evelyn Mercedes Muñoz Marroquín 202115 minEn la comunidad nahua de Hueyapan, Puebla, coexisten los relatos de una generación de mujeres que han desafiado los límites sociales; a través de sus bordados, la rebeldía y el amor propio, se unen para transformarse a sí mismas y cambiar el rumbo de su historia.In the nahua community of Hueyapan, Puebla, we encounter the stories of a generation of women that have challenged society. Through their embroidery work, their innate rebelliousness and their self-belief, they have joined forces to transform themselves and the history of their own community.
6:30 - 9:00 Banquet. Trinity Episcopal Church, Parish Hall, 1011 Vermont St.
Saturday, April 26
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Verónica Pacheco, Singing Devotional Prayers at the Postectli Mountain’s foothill
9:30 - 10:00 Katarzyna Granicka & Justyna Olko, Indigenous responses to environmental violence and social injustice. Some insights from Nahuatl-language petitions
10:00 - 10:30 BREAK
10:30 - 11:30 Document Session. Ben Leeming, Say Hello to Your New, Hallucinating Assistant: Evaluating AI capabilities in Colonial Nahuatl Translation.
11:30 - 12:00 Joanna Maryniak, Creation and adaptation of pictorial dictionaries of Nahuatl to the needs of various communities
12:00 - 12:30 Abelardo de la Cruz. Tiotlahtolli huan huehuetlahtolli: Biblical lessons of the Motiochihuanih from Chicontepec
Conference feeAs in some past years, we are asking participants to make a $50 donation to the association. For those folks who receive reimbursement from their university or sponsor, when requested we will issue a receipt that will list it as a "Conference fee." Students and faculty of the University of Kansas are granted free access. Graduate students and others who might have limited means may contribute however much they wish. Please use this QR code or link to our PayPal account, filling in the amount.
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=CF769VKTHSM7N
