Séminaire d'Elizabeth Hill Boone à l'EPHE, Paris

Notre collègue et amie Maëlle Sergheraert nous a aimablement transmis le programme d'un séminaire en 4 temps que proposera la Dr. Elizabeth Hill Boone les lundi 17, 31 mai et 7 juin ainsi que le mercredi 26 mai à l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, en Sorbonne, à Paris. Ce séminaire est intitulé : "Ideologies in Translation, The Graphic Restructuring of Religious Knowledge in Sixteenth-century Mexico"

La Dr. Hill Boone est spécialisée dans l'iconograpahie mexica et est internationalement reconnue pour ses écrits dans le domaine depuis une trentaine d'années. Je copie-colle le programme qui est en anglais. Il y a fort à parier que les lectures se feront dans cette langue.

 Portrait de la Dr Elizabeth Hill Boone.

Retrouvé le 3 mai 2010 sur http://bit.ly/aJjGKM

Lundi 17 Mai 2010 - 16H à 18H en salle Corbin, Sorbonne
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.

Mercredi 26 Mai 2010 - 9H à 11H en salle Mauss, Sorbonne
Graphic Mnemonics in 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.

Lundi 31 Mai 2010 - 16H à18H en salle Corbin, Sorbonne
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.

Lundi 7 Juin 2010 -16H à 18H en salle Corbin, Sorbonne
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 VaticanusA/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.

Avis donc à tous les amateurs du Mexique ancien et en particulier du Haut Plateau Central. Nous vous invitons à y assister puisqu'elles sont totalement gratuites.

L'EPHE est située en Sorbonne au 17 rue de la Sorbonne, dans le 5è arrondissement de Paris. On peut également y accéder par la rue Victor Cousin, métro Cluny-sorbonne ou RER Saint Michel, sortie Cluny-Sorbonne.

Références bibliographiques :
Boone, Elizabeth Hill
1983. The Codex Magliabechiano and the Lost Prototype of the Magliabechiano Group. University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles.

1989. Incarnations of the Aztec Supernatural: The Image of Huitzilopochtli in Mexico and Europe. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 79 part 2. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphie.

1998. "Pictorial Documents and Visual Thinking in Postconquest Mexico". In Elizabeth Hill Boone and Tom Cubbins (éds.) (PDF Reprint). Native Traditions in the Postconquest World, A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks 2nd through 4th October 1992. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington D.C., p. 149–199.

2000. Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztec and Mixtec. University of Texas Press, Austin.

2007. Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate. Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture. University of Texas Press, Austin.