Archive pour mai 2010

Lundi 7 juin,  EPHE, salle Corbin (entrée 17, rue de la Sorbonne, escalier E, 1er étage)

Quatrième conférence d’Elizabeth Hill Boone

« The European Construction of Aztec Religion »
This session examines the functional and semiotic tensions between European and indigenous graphic codes in the cultural encyclopedias of early colonial Mexico (e.g., Codex Magliabechiano and its cognates, Codex Telleriano-Remensis and Vaticanus A/Ríos, and the pictorial codices of Sahagún and Durán). The images that are the foundation for the explanatory glosses and texts were extracted from their former matrix in traditional pictography and came to signify differently in the encyclopedias. They themselves became functionally and conceptually European at the same time that they adopted some European stylistic features. Moreover, European cultural classifications determined what knowledge was gathered and how it was organized. This session will show how encyclopedic project was fundamentally a European one, an outgrowth of earlier attempts to categorize and record the cultural practices of foreigners.

Lundi 7 juin,  EPHE, salle Corbin (entrée 17, rue de la Sorbonne, escalier E, 1er étage)
14h-16h : Conférence d’Araceli Rojas Martínez Gracida (Université de Leiden, Pays Bas) : « Mujeres que cuentan los días en San Cristóbal Chichicaxtepec (Mixe, Oaxaca) »

Lundi 31 mai 2010, 14h-16h, EPHE, Salle Corbin (Entrée 17, rue de la Sorbonne, Escalier E, 1er étage)
Conférence de Claude Baudez (CNRS)

« L’autosacrifice en Mésoamérique et en Amérique du Nord »

Cycle de conférence d’Elizabeth Hill Boone, Lundi 31 mai 2010, 16-18h, EPHE, Salle Corbin. (Entrée 17 rue de la Sorbonne, Escalier E, 1er étage).
« Ideologies in Translation: The Graphic Restructuring of Religious Knowledge in Sixteenth-century Mexico. »

Troisième conférence : « The Graphic Mexicanization of Catholic Ideology ».
This session looks at the graphic reproduction of texts containing Catholic doctrine, especially in the form of catechisms presented in symbols and figures rather than in letters and words. Mexican pictography had to undergo a radical change in purpose in order to replicate holy texts; syntactically it became more like the alphabetic texts of Europe, whereas semantically it followed traditional forms of pictography. A focus will be on the indigenous expression of Catholic knowledge.

Cycle de conférence d’Elizabeth Hill Boone, Mercredi 26 mai 2010, 9h-11h, EPHE, Salle Mauss
« Ideologies in Translation: The Graphic Restructuring of Religious Knowledge in Sixteenth-century Mexico. »

Deuxième conférence : « Graphic Mnemonics in the Europe and Mexico »
This session highlights the use of figural images as mnemonic signs in both Europe and Mexico. It charts the medieval and early modern use of pictographic signs to cue religious knowledge in Europe and argues that this little-studied tradition was partially responsible for the European recognition of pictography. Mnemonic diagrams from Europe also became effective templates for the presentation of Catholic texts in Mexico.

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Lundi 17 Mai 2010, 14h-16h, EPHE, Salle Corbin

Nathalie Ragot (Université de Paris VII) :

« Les divinités féminines du maïs dans le panthéon aztèque. »

Lundi 17 mai 2010, 16h-18h, EPHE, Salle Corbin.
Conférence d’Elizabeth Boone (Directeur d’Etude Invité,Tulane University)
« Ideologies in Translation: The Graphic Restructuring of Religious Knowledge in Sixteenth-century Mexico. »
« Multi-visuality in Sixteenth-century Mexico »
This session analyzes the contemporaneous employment of alternative forms of graphic discourse in early colonial Mexico. It focuses on the three major systems that contributed to the graphic complexity (pictography, alphabetic writing, illusionistic figuration), and it analyses how these systems were influenced (or not) by the others. Individuals with functioning literacy in one system often became adept in the others, and hybrid systems developed to respond to the graphic communicative needs of the ideological and social mix that was colonial Mexico.
Une traduction simultanée en français est prévue.