The Chimalpahin Conference 2008:

Colonial and Post-Colonial Remembering and Forgetfulness (III)

Mexico City, 15 - 18 October, 2008

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Poster Image, The Chimalpahin Conference, 2008: 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.  

Chimalpahin 2007

The second Chimalpahin conference took place in Mexico City between 15 and 18 October, 2007 with sessions both in the Mexico City Press Club and in the Auditorium of Hotel Catedral.

Chimalpahin 2006

The Chimalpahin Conference 2006: Colonial and Post-Colonial Remembering and Forgetfulness organized by Enkidu Magazine took place in the Mexico City Press Club A.C. between the 16th and the 18th of October, 2006. During these 3 days, 38 papers were presented by scholars representing 24 academic institutions in 8 countries. The artist of the conference was Mexican pop artist Edwin Daniel who shared with the delegates his perspectives on pop art and post colonialism both through his exhibition in the conference center and a special lecture on the 17th of October. 

The organising committee would like to thank all the speakers for their outstanding presentations, each and every attendee for their participation in the conference and the many lively discussions, and EVERYONE for their contribution to making this conference an interesting and fruitful event in a truly multicultural, multilingual and multidisciplinary academic environment. 

Conference Program 2006
Monday 16. October 2006	Tuesday 17. October 2006	Wednesday 18. October 2006