The Pre-Columbian Society of Washington, D.C. (PCSWDC), is an educational organization dedicated to furthering knowledge and understanding of the peoples of the Americas before the time of Columbus. Founded in 1993, the Society provides a forum for the exchange of information regarding these pre-Columbian cultures between academic professionals and interested members of the public.
Digital Resources for Studying the Nahuatl Language and Nahua Culture
Stephanie Wood, PhD, Kislak Chair, Library of Congress
In this well-illustrated lecture, Dr. Wood will share examples from three open-access digital collections, including the Mapas Project, (about indigenous-authored pictorial manuscripts of New Spain); the Online Nahuatl Dictionary, (which combines early and contemporary Nahuatl, with attestations from manuscripts and publications); and, the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, (a database of hieroglyphs from a growing number of manuscripts, all with description, analysis, and the tracking of characteristics of the writing system and culture in the autonomous era and under colonialism).
Dr. Stephanie Wood holds the Kislak Chair at the Library of Congress (2022-2023). She is the Director of the Wired Humanities Projects and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Equity Promotion, College of Education, University of Oregon. Prior to this position, Wood was adjunct faculty at the same university (1992–2015) and Assistant Professor at the University of Maine (1984–1989), teaching Latin American and U.S. History. Wood is the author of the monograph, “Transcending Conquest: Nahua Views of Spanish Colonial Mexico” (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003), co-editor of five anthologies, and the author of dozens of articles and essays on early Mexican ethnohistory. With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), she has directed six summer institutes for U.S. schoolteachers.
This meeting is free and open to the public but you must pre-register to attend. Click HERE to our Zoom April lecture. A confirmation email, and reminder will be will be sent the day before the event.
