Professor Justyna Olko of the University of Warsaw has received a grant in collaboration with the Wired Humanities Projects for a series of lectures on Nahuas of early Mexico entitled, “Encounters between the Old and New Worlds: Case Studies from the Aztec/Nahua Mexico.” The European Social Fund is underwriting her visit and some work we are doing together, while she is here, on Nahuatl-language manuscripts, on a loanword project she is directing, on WHP’s online Nahuatl lexicon, and our planning for a meeting in Vienna in 2012.
Professor Olko will be delivering the following presentations, all in the evening and all in 375 McKenzie Hall:
Thursday, September 23, 7:00-8:30: Aztec Universalism: Ideology and Status Symbols in the Service of Empire (lecture)
Monday, September 27, 7:00-8:30: Nahua Insignia of Rank: Functions and Meanings before and after the Spanish Conquest (lecture)
Tuesday, September 28, 7:00-8:30: Tradition, Novelty, and Prestige: Imagery of Elite Status in Colonial Central Mexican Indigenous Society (an ethnohistorical workshop)
Wednesday, September 29, 7:00-8:30: Public Talk: The Empire Strikes Back: The Ideology of Just War among Aztecs and Spaniards (public talk)
PLEASE JOIN US FOR THESE TALKS!
