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 does ethnographic fieldwork or textual sources allow scholars to recognize and conceptualize change in Nahuatl-speaking communities and peoples?

NAHUATL Workshop
University of Maryland, College Park
St. Mary’s Hall-Multipurpose Room
Friday, May 1- Saturday, May 2, 2009

Please email lasc@umd.edu to register before April 20, 2009