4th Annual Nahuatl Conference at UCLA
Friday, June 4, 2021
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Zoom
Presentations will be in Nahuatl, Spanish, and English or a combination of the 3 languages.
Register via HERE
This free webinar features new research and teaching on Mesoamerica by 3 native-speakers of the Nahuatl language, 3 advanced students at UCLA, 4 scholars from Mexico and Los Angeles, and 3 high school teachers from the LA Unified School District. Nahuatl is the language spoken by the Mexica or Aztecs, and it is still spoken today by about a million people in Mexico.
Cost: Free & Open to the Public
View Program: Part 1 and Part 2
Program/Programa:
09:00 AM - Opening Remarks
Kevin Terraciano, Director, Latin American Institute,
Dept. of History, UCLA
9:15 AM - 10:45 PM - Tlatehtemoliztli tlen Tlamachtianih
Eduardo de la Cruz, IDIEZ
University of Warsaw
Perspectivas y reflexiones de jóvenes nahuas ante la conquista de México.
Sabina de la Cruz, IDIEZ
Xihuipahtli tlen naman:
Plantas medicinales hoy en dia.
Abelardo de la Cruz, IDIEZ
 State University of New York, Albany
La historia de Chicomexochitl y Tenantzitzimitl de Jésús Bautista:
Elementos paralelos a los cuentos populares europeos.
Moderator: Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, UCLA Labor Center
11:00 AM - 12:45 PM - Textos Indígenas del México Colonial
Federico Navarrete, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Title: TBD
Rebecca Dufendach, Getty Research Institute
Alteraciones materiales del libro 12 del Códice Florentino.
León García Garagarza, Getty Research Institute
Trialogue at the Crossroads:
Translating the Spanish Text of the Florentine Codex into English.
Kevin Terraciano, UCLA
Algunas convenciones pictográficas basadas en las lenguas indígenas en el Códice Sierra.
Moderator: Jimena Rodríguez, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM - Graduate Student Research
Juan Pablo Morales Garza, History, UCLA
México y sus alrededores:
los pueblos nahuas del Valle de México en el siglo XIX.
Beatríz Cruz López, History, UCLA
Disputas por tributarios y tributos del Valle de Oaxaca en el siglo XVI:
los casos de Tlacolula, Teitipac y Huitzo.
Anthony Meyer, Art History, UCLA
"Where They Bud, Where They Blossom":
Life and Learning at the Calmecac of Tenochtitlan.
Moderator: Fernando Pérez-Montesinos, Dept. of History, UCLA
2:45 PM - 4:00 PM - Teaching the Conquest of Mexico in LAUSD High School Classrooms
Maria-Georgina Salazar
Alexander Hamilton High School
Reyna Kauil
Alliance Marc and Eva Stern Math and Science School
Melina Melgoza
Roybal Learning Center
Moderator: Veronica Zavala Jacobo
LAI Public Engagement & Educational Outreach Coordinator, UCLA
4:00 PM - Closing Remarks
Sponsor(s): Latin American Institute, UCLA International Institute, Department of History, Stanford Latin American Center; University of Utah Latin American Center; UCLA American Indian Studies Center; IDIEZ; UCLA Center for Mexican Studies; UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese; Consulado General de México en Los Ángeles: Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores
