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The creation of the new Centre has been featured in one of Poland's bigger newspapers - Rzeczpospolita.
The creation of the new Centre has been featured in one of Poland's bigger newspapers - Rzeczpospolita. The whole article is available here (in Polish).
The centre is a common initiative of the University of Warsaw, School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), Leiden University, University of Groningen and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena. It is located at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” where Dr. Justyna Olko, an ERC grant holder, along with her multidisciplinary team, carries out numerous interdisciplinary projects regarding the cross-cultural transfer between Europe and America, and the revitalization of endangered languages.
More information can be found in this text and in the video embedded below:
It aims at providing holistic, interdisciplinary, and contextualized study seeking relationship between language vitality and psychological and physical health and wellbeing, including economic sustainability, development and productivity. It will also provide responses on the level of application of research results at societal, educational, economic, psychological healthcare-related levels. The study will be based on carefully selected groups speaking minority and migrant languages, focusing on the area of Poland (speakers of Lemko and Wymysorys, Ukrainian migrants), but including a comparative perspective for relating to earlier research on the topic carried out in non-European contexts and necessary for testing the developed hypotheses (Nahuatl).
More information about the project can be found in the podcast/interview (conducted in Polish) with the project leaders: Justyna Olko and Michał Bilewicz.
If you would like to join us, please complete the registration form (link).
All information about activities you can find here.
In case of any questions concerning the organisation of the conference, please write: nahuatl2017@al.uw.edu.pl
It is directed by Julia Madajczak, with the participation of Katarzyna Granicka, Szymon Gruda and John Sullivan from “Artes Liberales,” as well as José Luis de Rojas from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Monika Jaglarz from the Jagiellonian Library. The team will work on the only manuscript in Nahuatl held by a Polish institution and, at the same time, one of the oldest manuscripts in Nahuatl worldwide. The project has already sparked interest in Poland and abroad:
http://wyborcza.pl/7,75400,21389154,to-niesamowita-historia-w-krakowie-odnaleziono-zaginiony.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/discovery-aztec-document-reveals-early-history-christianity-cortes-mesoamerica-1608755
One of the works done at IDIEZ (Istituto de Docencia e Investigación Etologica de Zacatecas AC) with the University of Warsaw, is to make known the mother tongue, nahuatl, in its variant from Huasteca Veracruzana, región del municipio de Chicontepec, Veracruz.
One of the works done at IDIEZ (Istituto de Docencia e Investigación Etologica de Zacatecas AC) with the University of Warsaw, is to make known the mother tongue, nahuatl, in its variant from Huasteca Veracruzana, región del municipio de Chicontepec, Veracruz.
On the third of february 2017, several books published by the University of Warsaw and IDIEZ (Tlahtolixcopincayotl, 2016. Tlahtolxitlauhcayotl: Chicontepec, Veracruz, 2016. Nahui Tonatiuh, 2015. Tototatahhuan ininixtlamatiliz, 2014) were given to the following educational establishments in Chicontepec:
- Primaria Federal Bilingüe “General Adalberto Tejada”
- Telesecundaria Pública “Carlos A. Carrillo”
- Preescolar Federal Bilingüe “Ignacio Allende”
- Telesecundaria Público “Justo Sierra Méndez”
Primaria “General Adalberto Tejada”
Telesecundaria Público “Justo Sierra Méndez”
Preescolar Federal Bilingüe “Ignacio Allende”
Telesecundaria Pública “Carlos A. Carrillo”
On October 6 and 7 of 2016, as part of the ENGHUM project we will carry out a workshop for native speakers of Nahuatl (including writers, students, researchers, teachers and activists) as well as participants from the Faculty of „Artes Liberales” of the University of Warsaw.
Over thirty native speakers of the language will meet at Mexico's National Archives to read and discuss manuscripts written by their ancestors during the country's colonial period, as well as explore ways to strengthen and develop teaching, research and revitalization activities related to their language and culture. The discussions will be held entirely in Nahuatl, highlighting both the mutual inteligibility of each participant's variant, as well as the capacity of the language to serve as a tool for advanced academic work.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 692199.
Artykuł na stronie 22. "UW" - magazynu społeczności akademickiej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.
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