Conference opens at 9:45 - 10 with Coffee at Harry Hickman Building, Room 110

SESSION ONE 10:15 - 11:30  - (Two Choices)

HHB 116  Ethnicity, Justice and Development in Latin America

HHB 110 - Infanciay Adolescencia En El Cine Latinoamericano

11:40 - 12:40 KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Dr. John Sullivan

12:40 - 1:30 LUNCH

1:30 - 2:10 Special Prsentation

SESSION TWO   2:20 - 3:20   (Two Choices)

HHB 116 - Gender, Love and Cannibalism Part 1

HHB 110 -  LAS Literatureas De Izquierda de America Latina: Sus Aspectos Practicos Y Teoricos Part 1

3:20 - 3:35 COFFEE

3:35 - 5:00 SESSION THREE

HHB 116 Gender, Love and Cannibalism Part 2

HHB 110  LAS Literatureas De Izquierda de America Latina: Sus Aspectos Practicos Y Teoricos Part 2

For additional details relating to the workshop, please see the attachment.

Free and open to the public

The IDIEZ Project: Revitalization Nahuatl in Higher Education

Dr. John Sullivan runs the Nahua Language programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas and Yale University, and is director of the Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas. In his lecture he will discuss how

IDIEZ provides a monolingual space for indigenous college students to work in collaboration with international scholars on projects involving the teaching, research and revitalization of older and modern aspects of their language and culture.

Additional lecture: Nahuas in the Mexican Huasteca practice the Tlatlacualtiah ceremony every year before the two planting seasons, making offerings to the natural deities, in the form of paper cuttings, at altars in the home, at springs and on the sacred mountain. Wednesday, 6 March, 2:30 p.m., Clearihue Building, Room A316

Presented by the Latin American Studies Program 

Free and open to the public