Schedule

Registration & Breakfast

Morning Session

Introductions and Overview

Jim Maffie, Carlos Sanchez, Stephanie Rivera Berruz

• Davíd Carrasco, Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire (2002) pp. 11-49.

• Guillermo Hurtado, “Mexican Philosophy” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Latin American Feminism, Stephanie Rivera Berruz, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Nahuatl borrow words in Mexican Spanish

Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

Introduction to Aztec/Nahua Philosophy

Jim Maffie

• Quick guide to Nahua Metaphysics for NEWLAMP (for those pressed for time)

• A note on terminology, translation, pronunciation from Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (2019)

Sources and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion

• • Victoria Ríos Castaño, “Translating the Nahuas: Fray Bernardino de Sahagún’s Parallel Texts in the Construction of Universal History of the things of New Spain,” in Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World: from Conquest to Globalization 2011, Eleni Kefala (ed) vol. 30 pp. 28-37.

  • Gertrudis Payàs, “Translation in Historiography: The Garibay/León-Portilla Complex and the Making of a Pre-Hispanic Past.” Meta: Journal des traducteurs / Meta: Translators' Journal, vol. 49, n° 3, 2004, p. 544-561.

Metaphysics (a)

• Annals of Cuauhtitlan (Anales de cuauhtitlan) and "Legend of the Suns ("Leyenda de los soles"), in History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca. translated by John Bierhorst. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press

• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1953-82). Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. Arthur J.O. Anderson & Charles Dibble, eds. and trans. 12 vols. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research and University of Utah. VII, ch.2. pp. 1-9.  “Creation stories.”

• “The Five Suns” (many of the key defining themes of Mexica cosmogony, metaphysics and ethics are expressed in the film)

Metaphysics (b)

• Fray Diego Durán, “The Sixth Month of the Year: Etzalhualiztli, in Fray Diego Durán, Book of the Gods and Rites and The Ancient Calendar, Fernando Horcasitas and Doris Heyden, trans. and eds., with foreword by Miguel León-Portilla. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971, pp. 430-433.

• Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, Etzalhualiztli.

• Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions … Appendix F. “Paraphrases of the Incantation in the Treatise” J. Richard Andrews & Ross Hassig (trans and eds). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984, pp. 259-302.

• James Maffie, Aztec Philosophy (in required book), chs. 1-3, 6, pp. 512-513

Dinner @ Restaurant

Breakfast

Morning Session

Introduction to Aztec/Nahua Ethics

Jim Maffie

• Quick Guide to Nahua Ethics for NEWLAMP (for those pressed for time)

Ethics (narrower focus)

• Sahagún, Bernardino de (1953-82). (FC) Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. Arthur J.O. Anderson & Charles Dibble, eds. and trans. 12 vols. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research and University of Utah.

  • FC BK VI, Chs. 17-19: How fathers and mothers exhorted their children

  • FC BK VI: Figures of Speech

  • FC BK VI: Adages

  • FC BK VI, Ch.21: How fathers exhorted their sons

  • FC BK X: Characterizations of good and bad people

• The Art of Nahuatl Speech: Bancroft Dialogues, Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart (eds),  UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987. Pp. 108-113, 148-152, 194-197.

Ethics (broader focus)

• James Maffie, Aztec Philosophy (in required book), Conclusion 

• James Maffie, “The Nature of Mexica Ethics,” in Colin Marshall (ed), Comparative Metaethics: Neglected Perspectives on the Foundations of Morality. London: Routledge 2020, pp. 60-80.

• James Maffie, “The Role of Hardship in Mexica Ethics: Or, Why Being Good Has to Hurt,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter for Indigenous Philosophy vol. 18 no.2 (2019): 8-17.      

• James Maffie, “Weaving the Good Life in a Living World: Reciprocity, Balance and Nepantla in Aztec Ethics,” Science, Religion and Culture, 6 Special Issue 1, Owen Flanagan (ed) 2019, pp. 15-25.

Social-political Philosophy

• James Maffie, “Nemiliztli and Tlamanitiliztli”

Human~”divine” reciprocity: Human life-energy gifting and debt-payment 

• Sahagún FC: II: New Fire Ceremony

• Sahagún FC: II: Toxcatl

Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century

Carlos Alberto Sanchez

• Leopoldo Zea, “Philosophy as Commitment” in Carlos Alberto Sanchez and Robert Eli Sanchez (2017), Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century: Required Readings, Oxford: 125-140 (in required book)

• Leopoldo Zea, “Philosophy and Thought in Latin America,” Latin American Research Review 3:2 (1968): 3-16.

• Carlos Pereda, “Latin American Philosophy: Some vices,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy,” 20:3 (2006): 192-203.

Breakfast

Morning Session

Jorge Portilla's "Phenomenology of Relajo"

Carlos Alberto Sanchez

• Jorge Portilla, "Phenomenology of Relajo," pp. 124-200 of The Suspension of Seriousness 

Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

General Question and Answer, Pedagogy Discussion

Breakfast

Morning Session

Caribbean Feminisms: Luisa Capetillo

Stephanie Rivera Berruz

• Luisa Capetillo, A Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out (1911, 2004) (required book), focus on chapters: Preface (pp. 1-3), Free Love (pp. 31-41), To My Daughter Manuela Ledesma Capetillo (pp. 59-94)

Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

Mexican Philosophy and 20th Century Hermeneutics

Carlos Alberto Sanchez

• Luis Villoro, “Sahagún or the Limits of the Discovery of the Other,” Working Papers 2. University of Maryland.

• Luis Villoro, “The Major Moments of Indigenism in Mexico: Conclusion,” (in required book) Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century: pp. 156-164.

• Rosario Castellanos, “On Feminine Culture,” (in required book) Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century: pp. 206-215. 

Breakfast

Morning Session

Latinx & Latin American/Decolonial Feminisms

Stephanie Rivera Berruz

• Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) (required book), focus on: (3) Entering the Serpent, (5) How to Tame a Wild Tongue, (7) La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness

• Gloria Anzaldúa, Light in the Dark/Luz en Lo Oscuro (2015) (required book), focus on: Preface (pp. 1-8), Let us be the Healing of the Wound (pp. 9-22), Flights of the Imagination (pp. 23-46), Now Let Us Shift (pp. 117-160)

• Rita Segato, The Critique of Coloniality: Eight Essays (2022) chapters: Gender and Coloniality: From Communitarian to Colonial Modern Patriarchy (pp. 49-73), The Deep Rivers of Latin American Race: A Rereading of Meztizaje (pp. 159-184)

Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

General Question and Answer, Debriefing, Wrapping Up