Theme: "From the Mexica Empire to New Spain: Transculturation and Identity"
This symposium is a homage to Diana Magaloni and Leonardo López Luján. The event will present the great cultural, historical and artistic developments of the Pre-Columbian peoples of Mesoamerica, before and during the Contact Period with the Spaniards in the 16th Century.
Presentations will detail how the indigenous artists and authors interpreted the Spanish conquest and their role in the new colonial era. The lectures will also include an analysis of early colonial Mexican literary and pictorial sources like the ones, Sahagún, and his indigenous scholars and artists used in central Mexico to produce the monumental Florentine Codex. Speakers will take on broader temporal, regional, and cultural perspectives on the effects of the Spanish conquest and explore transcultural situations in and outside of central Mexico.