“Myths around Quechua and Indigenous Languages”
featuring Yuly Tacas (San Marcos University, Lima, Perú)

Free interactive workshop (Registration is required)

Join us for an interactive workshop on the current situation of Quechua. Ms. Tacas will discuss about the myths on Indigenous Languages revitalization efforts and her experience on developing Quechua revitalization initiatives.

Yuly Tacas is a literature activist and scholar from Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Perú). She is the director of the Quechua magazine “Kallpa” and founder of the Kuska Quechua Institute. Ms. Tacas leads initiatives to promote the use of Quechua among the youth in urban and rural areas, including software-realted projects in collaboration with the World Bank and Peru’s Ministry of Culture.

Scholars, educators and people in general are invited to sign up for this workshop. Please register by Tuesday, June 19th 5pm, here: https://goo.gl/xYEDHL
Limited spots available. Workshop will be lead in Spanish. No previous knowledge of Quechua is required.

Free event organized by the Quechua Language Program at Penn thanks to a grant by the Penn Language Center.
For more information, please contact:  americo@sas.upenn.edu

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui will join Penn during the week of April 9th, 2018 as the Alice Paul Center first International Visiting Scholar. Rivera Cusicanqui is a contemporary Aymara feminist sociologist, historian, and subaltern theorist from Bolivia.  She draws upon anarchist theory as well as Quecha and Aymara cosmologies.  She is the previous director and longtime member of the Taller de Historia Oral Andina (Workshop on Andean Oral History). She is also an activist who works directly with indigenous movements in Bolivia, such as the Katarista movement and the coca growers movement. Sylvia’s best known work is Oppressed But Not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Quechua in Bolivia, 1900-1980 (Geneva: UNRISD, 1984).

4/12: Women´s Struggles in Defense of Pachamama. Trans-regional and Trans-ethnic Alliances in Bolivia, Berkowitz Lecture; 5:00pm; Silverman Forum, Stiteler Hall

Additionally, Rivera-Cusicanqui will be visiting the Quechua class on April 10th.

Rivera Cusicanqui’s visit is cosponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Program, Perry World House and the Quechua Language Program at Penn.

SPRING 2018: Elementary Quechua & Andean Culture I
Tuesdays & Thursdays 5:30pm-7:30pm
Course code: ROML 110
Room: Williams Hall #316

Prof. Américo Mendoza-Mori

This is Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) affiliated course (major/minor).

Course summary

Quechua, the language of the Inca Empire and still spoken by approximately 8 million people throughout the Andes, is the most spoken indigenous language in the Americas. The program focuses on the development of written and oral communicative abilities in Quechua through an interactive activity-based approach. Course includes an introduction to Quechua and Andean culture. Students will participate in pair, small-group and whole-class activities. Assessment is based on both students’ ability to use the language in written and oral tasks and understanding the language and culture. This beginning level Quechua course is designed for students who have little or no previous knowledge of the language.

Lectures will be delivered in English and Quechua.

[pdf]] Check out the course syllabus here: https://goo.gl/zDPsNi 

Learn more about studying Quechua at Penn , here: http://web.sas.upenn.edu/quechua/study-quechua/

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*Students from Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore College can also register for this class. Penn graduate students  can also register for this class (for more details, please contact Prof. Mendoza-Mori).

Date: Thursday, October 12th, 6-8:30pm
Place: Perelman Building, Philadelphia Art Museum (2525 Pennsylvania Avenue)

This is an event to honor the Lenni-Lenape today, on whose ancestral territory we stand, and to cherish the multi-ethnic community of Native American, First Nation, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian and other Indigenous Peoples living in the Philadelphia region. It will also be a day to honor the American Indian Movement (AIM), Taino Revitalization Movement, Mexica Movement and the many Indigenous nations and communities from North to South America who are on the frontline defending the earth and their sovereignty.

The Quechua program at Penn will be featured during the panel “Philly Now” at 7:50pm.

Schedule

Opening Celebration — (Atrium)
6PM – Opening Ceremony with Trinity Norwood
6:10PM – Aztec Dancers followed by Nanticoke and Lenni-Lenape drum circle and dancers

More info about the event, here

Thursday, October 19th, 2017
6pm
Place: Arch Building #110, UPenn (3601 Locust Walk)

Tupasunchis!! Let’s meet up!

We invite your to learn more about the Andes (Latin America), its people and culture, and Quechua language. Please join us for a fun evening of Quechua conversation, games, and refreshments (Inca Kola). Everyone is welcome!

No previous knowledge of Quechua is necessary.
Free and Open the public

Facebook event link

Event Canceled until further notice

This year we commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and we are honored to invite Mr. David Choquehuanca, Secretary General of ALBA and former Foreign Minister of Bolivia, to speak at Penn.

Mr. Choquehuanca, a high-ranked Aymara leader who have played an internationally and national role on promoting Indigenous Rights will discuss about the challenges and goals on recognizing and respecting Indigenous peoples’s cultures, territory and citizenship.

His talk is scheduled for October 11th, 2017, 5pm as a preliminar special event of the “Penn in Latin America” conference.

More information will be available soon.

Date: Thursday, September 21st, 6pm
Place: Greenfield Intercultural Center at Penn (3708 Chesnut Street)

This is our first event of the year. Enjoy some Inca Kola and snacks, learn about the Quechua program at Penn and join us for lecture by Dr. Rocío Quispe-Agnoli on the history of the Incas. Introduction remarks by Prof. Jorge Téllez.

Abstract: Texts and illustrations by Inca petitioners in eighteenth-century Mexico’s archives raise questions about hemispheric and transatlantic movement of the descendants of Incas kings after the Spanish conquest.
This presentation examines the long journey of the Uchu Tupac Yupanqui family in Peru and Mexico on their way to a desired, but never reached, destination: the court of the Spanish King.

Bio: Rocío Quispe-Agnoli is Professor of Colonial Latin American Studies in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University. She is the author of La fe andina de la escritura: identidad y resistencia en la obra de Guaman Poma de Ayala (2006), Durmiendo en el agua (2008, short fiction), Nobles de papel (2016) and Women’s Negotiations and Textual Agency in Latin America, 1500-1799 (2017, co-edited with M. Díaz). Her current project is tentatively titled: From Coyas to Doñas: Inca Women and the Gendering of the Colonial Archive.

FALL 2017: Elementary Quechua & Andean Culture I

Tuesdays & Thursdays 5:30pm-7:30pm

Course code: ROML 110

Prof. Américo Mendoza-Mori

Course summary

Quechua, the language of the Inca Empire and still spoken by approximately 8 million people throughout the Andes, is the most spoken indigenous language in the Americas. The program focuses on the development of written and oral communicative abilities in Quechua through an interactive activity-based approach. Course includes an introduction to Quechua and Andean culture. Students will participate in pair, small-group and whole-class activities. Assessment is based on both students’ ability to use the language in written and oral tasks and understanding the language and culture. This beginning level Quechua course is designed for students who have little or no previous knowledge of the language.

Lectures will be delivered in English and Quechua.

[pdf]] Check out the course syllabus here: https://goo.gl/zDPsNi 

Learn more about studying Quechua at Penn , here: http://web.sas.upenn.edu/quechua/study-quechua/

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*Students from Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore College can also register for this class. Penn graduate students  can also register for this class (for more details, please contact Prof. Mendoza-Mori).