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2022 NEH Summer Institute OpportunityWorlds in Collision:Nahua and Spanish Pictorial Histories and Annals in 16th-Century MexicoA National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institutefor 26 College Faculty participants to be held at Adelphi University June 9 to June 30, 2022 Download complete copy of this website in PDF format. Download this page only. The Institute at a GlanceDepending on Public Health Guidelines related to COVID-19, plans for residential offerings are subject to change. |
Home Welcome Letter from Project Directors Institute Daily ScheduleInstitute Visiting Scholars Intellectual Grounding Lodging and Institute Stipend How to Apply Online Mexican Codices Participant Eligibility Principles of Civility Contact Us Project Co-Directors: Dr. Laraine Fletcher Adelphi University, Anthropology, emerita, fletcher@adelphi.edu Dr. George Scheper Senior Lecturer, Advanced Academic Programs, The Johns Hopkins University, gscheper@jhu.edu Project Manager: Mary Cortina Director, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs cortina@adelphi.edu |
detail from copy of the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, 16th c.
Applications are invited from college faculty, full-time or contingent, to participate in a three-week Summer Institute exploring the newly accessible archives of 16th century Spanish and Nahua textual and pictorial documents that give expression to the new existential realities created by the Spanish incursions into the Valley of Mexico in 1519-1521: the overthrow of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, and the founding of Spanish colonial Mexico City. The intriguing primary documents we will analyze — along with crucial secondary studies by our visiting scholars and others — take multiple forms: written alphabetic texts in Spanish or Nahuatl; ideographic calendars and books of divination; and pictorial histories in the form of scrolls, codices, lienzos (linens) and maps. The written source materials will be accessible to participants in English translation, with excerpts and secondary studies posted as library e-Reserves on an Institute Blackboard site, and the crucial pictorial manuscripts and maps will be accessible online, as well as in printed facsimiles. Visiting Scholar Faculty Rolena Adorno (Sterling Professor of Spanish, Yale University) Frances F. Berdan (Professor emerita, Anthropology, California State University, San Bernardino); Amber Brian (Director of the Latin American Studies Program, University of Iowa); Lori Boornazian Diel (Professor of Art History, Texas Christian University); Jeanne L. Gillespie (Co-Director of the Center for American Indian Research and Study, University of Southern Mississippi); Dana Leibsohn (Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art, Smith College); Barbara Mundy (Professor of Art History, Tulane University); Matthew Restall (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Colonial Latin American History & Anthropology, Penn State University); Kevin Terraciano (Professor of History and Director of the Latin American Institute & Co-Chair of the Latin American Studies Graduate Program, UCLA); Stephanie Wood (Director and Senior Research Associate of Wired Humanities Projects, Center for Equity Promotion, College of Education, University of Oregon). Institute Stipend and Lodging
The taxable NEH stipend for a three-week Summer Institute is $2,850, intended to help defray costs of travel, lodging, meals, and books in connection with the Institute. For additional information you may also contact one of the Project Co-Directors: Dr. Laraine Fletcher, Adelphi University, Anthropology, emerita. fletcher@adelphi.edu
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Dr. George Scheper, Senior Lecturer, Advanced Academic Programs, The Johns Hopkins University, gscheper@jhu.edu
Application deadline: March 1, 2022; notification date: March 25, 2022 “Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.” |