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Colonial and Post-Colonial Remembering and Forgetfulness Rescheduling of the "Colonial and Post Colonial Remembering and Forgetfulness" conference 2010 Poster Image, The Chimalpahin Conference: Cocktail hour in Hotel Cathay in Shanghai. This painting was used by Hennessy Cognac in their international magazine ads in the 1930s and shows a classical scene from the fashionable Horse and Hounds Bar in the legendary Cathay Hotel on the Bund in Shanghai. Anyone who was anybody in the International Settlement of Colonial Shanghai, passed through the Cathay’s revolving doors and took a drink or two in this bar. The elderly gentleman in the background is George Bernhard Shaw who visited Shanghai in 1933, and of course, he stayed at the Cathay. In March 1936, Charlie Chaplin and his wife at the moment, Paulette Goddard stayed at the Cathay, which is also where Lord Noel Coward completed his most famous work, the drama “Private Lives“. In the 1950s, Cathay Hotel was nationalized by Communist China and reopened in 1956 as the Peace Hotel. About the Chimalpahin Conference Cycle: Colonial and Post-Colonial Remembering and Forgetfulness This annual conference cycle is devoted to colonial and post colonial remembering and forgetfulness viewed from a wide range of different interdisciplinary perspectives with particular attention to communicative issues and reflections on „self“ and „otherness“, memories, historical myths and other expressions of historical and political memory. The conference will focus on conceptualizations and representations of cultural categories in colonial and post colonial realities, and the ways in which individuals have understood and enacted these frameworks in their lives. The conference cycle „Sensing the Other, Living in Nepantla: Colonial and Post-Colonial Remembering and Forgetfulness“ is dedicated to the Nahua Historian Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin (1579-1660), who more than a century after the Spanish conquest narrated and mediated in his native language Nahuatl, the history of Central Mexico and in particular his own altepetl (ethnic state unit in Central Mexico before and after the conquest) Chalco.