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Encounters Series: Rome-Tenochtitlán: Nahua Encounters with Ruined Cities in the 1520s

Thu, Feb 26    12pm

Byron Hamann, response by Benjamin Anderson (Cornell).

For the first event in the Encounter Series, Byron Hamann, a scholar of art and writing in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica and its links to Europe, will present new research on the voyage of four Nahua representatives—Indigenous Central Mexicans—who traveled to Rome in 1529.

Byron Ellsworth Hamann received a dual PhD in Anthropology and History from the University of Chicago. His research focuses on art and writing in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica and the connections linking the Americas and Europe in the early modern Mediterratlantic world. An editor emeritus of Grey Room, he is author of The Translations of Nebrija: Language, Culture, and Circulation in the Early Modern World (2015); Bad Christians, New Spains: Muslims, Catholics, and Native Americans in a Mediterratlantic World (2020); The Invention of the Colonial Americas Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies 1781–1844 (2022); the just-drafted At the Butterfly House: Nahua Ambassadors in the Ruins of Rome, 1529; and coeditor (with Felipe Rojas and Benjamin Anderson) of Otros pasados: Ontologías alternativas y el estudo de lo que ha sido (2022).

Benjamin Anderson is Associate Professor of History of Art and Classics at Cornell University. He is author of Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art (2017), and co-editor of Antiquarianisms (2017), The Byzantine Neighbourhood (2022), Otros pasados (2022), Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? (2023), and Hagia Sophia in the Long Nineteenth Century (2024). His edition of Robert Wood’s Ruins of Palmyra and Baalbek appeared in 2021. During 2025/26, he is a Faculty Fellow at the Society for the Humanities.

For in-person attendance (general public welcome), complete this form to RSVP.

For virtual attendance, register for the webinar here.