Pending event

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).

Tuesday, February 21st, 2017
Time: 12pm
Place: Silverstein forum (Stiteler Hall, UPenn)
208 South 37th Street, Philadelphia, 19104

[talk] “Can Universities Save Indigenous Languages? The case of Quechua” by Prof. Américo Mendoza-Mori.

Please join us for the next Latin American and Latino Studies Internal Speaker (LALSIS) Series presentation. Lunch will be served.

The Latin American and Latino Studies Internal Seminar series (LALSIS) has the main goal of discussing work-in-progress by members of the Penn LALS community such that we can learn about and from the scholarship of our colleagues on campus. We hope that our interactions in LALSIS may lead to future collaborations in teaching or research, or simply to the solidification of an interdisciplinary community with interest in Latin America and Latin@s.

Kichwa Hatari is a weekly radio program, the first in the indigenous Kichwa language in the U.S, aimed at reaching the Quechua/Kichwa population in the United States, particularly in New York.

This initiative is blending radio and community work into a one-of-a-kind project that is as much about revolutionizing radio airwaves as it is about cultural/linguistic empowerment and grassroots social organizing.

Kichwa Hatari members will participate at the Andean Language and Cultural Advocates Roundtable, as a part of the “2017 Thinking Andean Studies Conference“.

Andean Language and Cultural Advocates Roundtable
February 11, 2017

12:15pm – 1:30pm  |  Widener Room (Penn Museum)

• Gringo Kullki: Sucres to Dollars in Ecuador (Film and Presentation)
  Prof. Regina Harrison (University of Maryland)

• Running the First Kichwa-Language Radio Show in the United States
  Kichwa Hatari

For the complete conference schedule, please click here.

Why Quechua?
More info, here