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About the Panel Discussion: "Indigenous Languages at the Crossroads in Latin America: Screening and Conversation on the Survival of Indigenous Langauges"
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.
About the Panelists
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
About the Film: Sueño en otro idioma
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.
About the Event
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
The lecture and screening will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Doors will open at 5:30pm at the Broadway entrance (480 Broadway).
Limited complimentary parking is available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
This event is co-sponsored by the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Harvard Art Museums.