Panel Discussion and Screening: Sueño en Otro Idioma (I Dream in Another Language)
When:
Tuesday, Mar 21, 2023 6:00p -
9:00p
Tuesday, Mar 21, 2023 6:00p -
9:00p
Where:
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Accessible Spots, Good for Groups, Lectures & Conferences, Movies
Join us for a panel discussion and screening titled “Indigenous Languages at the Crossroads in Latin America: Screening and Conversation on the Survival of Indigenous Languages,” co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and presented at the Harvard Art Museums.
Framed within UNESCO’s International Decade of Indigenous Languages, the panel discussion will focus on the role of academia, media, civil society, and government initiatives in preserving, revitalizing, and supporting Indigenous languages in Latin America. A screening of the film Sueño en otro idioma (I Dream in Another Language), directed by Ernesto Contreras, will follow.
Speakers:
María Luisa Parra-Velasco, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages, Harvard University
Rebecca Mendoza Nunziato, graduate student, Harvard Divinity School
Isaura de las Santos Mendoza (Oaxaca, Mexico), graduate student, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Carlos Flores Quispe (Quechua), graduate student, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Sitalin Sanchez (Native Nahuatl speaker, Macehual, Mexico), graduate student, Harvard Divinity School
Américo Mendoza–Mori, Lecturer in Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, Harvard University
