Indigenous Languages Week Celebration at Penn

Academic Symposium

Saturday, October 26th:

9:00am to 5pm: Symposium Indigenous Languages Today
Location: Arch Building.
Open to the public (Registration for the Symposium is required)
Symposium program, RSVP and info

 

Sunday, October 27th:

11am: Mesoamerican Gallery Tour at the Penn Museum
Location: Penn Museum.
 

Monday, October 28th:

2pm-4pm: Speak the language of your grandmother
Location: Kelly Writers House.

3pm-4:30pm: Explore Andean Textiles and Clothing with Quechua Class
Location: Penn Museum. 

5pm: Book Presentation "Los Virajes del Quipu" by Alberto Valdivia
Location: Williams Hall 543.
 

Tuesday, October 29th:

2pm-4pm: Speak the language of your grandmother

Location: Kelly Writers House.

4pm-5pm: Explore Khipus and numbers with Quechua Class

Location: Penn Museum

6pm-7:15pm: Quechua Writers: Irma Alvarez-Ccoscco & Pablo Landeo-Muñoz
Location: Kelly Writers House.

Wednesday, October 30th:

12pm-1:30pm: Lunch Roundtable with Natives at Penn: What does it mean to reclaim a language?

Location: Kelly Writers House.

6pm-6:15pm: Nahuatl Poetry and Aztec Dances
Location: Kelly Writers House.

6:15pm-7:40pm: Zapotec short films: Dizhsa Nabani-Lengua Viva screening and discussions
Location: Kelly Writers House.

Thursday, October 31st:

11:30am-1pm: Informal Lunch with Pablo Landeo-Muñoz

 

Cultural Activities: October 27th – November 1st.

Detailed Activities Calendar:

http://web.sas.upenn.edu/quechua/indigenous-languages-week/

 

Philadelphia, PA
Events free, open to the public
(some activities require RSVP)