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Speakers: Maria Luisa Parra-Velasco, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages at Harvard University; Rebecca Mendoza Nunziato, Graduate Student at Harvard Divinity School; Isaura de las Santos Mendoza (Oaxaca, Mexico), Graduate Student at UMass Amherst; Carlos Flores Quispe (Quechua), Graduate Student at UMass Amherst; Sitalin Sanchez (Native Nahuatl speaker, Macehual, Mexico), Graduate Student at Harvard Divinity School; Americo Mendoza-Mori, Lecturer in Ethnicity, Migration, Rights at Harvard University
Framed within the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) International Decade of Indigenous Languages, this panel will discuss the role of academia, media, civil society, and government initiatives in preserving, revitalizing, and supporting indigenous languages in Latin America. A film screening of the movie Sueño en otro idioma (I Dream in Another Language) (2017) will follow. An indigenous language is in peril, as its last two speakers had a quarrel in the past and haven't spoken to each other in over 50 years. Martín, a young linguist, will undertake the challenge of bringing the old friends back together and convincing them to speak once again so he can obtain a recorded registration of the language and study it. Official Selection of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
Presented in collaboration with Mahindra Humanities Center, the Harvard Art Museums and the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights.