Events

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has designated 2019 as International Year of Indigenous Languages. The UMB Writing Center, Center for Global Education Initiatives, and Office of International Services have officially joined the worldwide programming with a discussion of decolonial perspectives and practices in health and human services education here at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Come and learn about the Indian Child Welfare Act and its connections to current health and human services education and practice before engaging in a curated dialogue focused on how we, as students, faculty, and practitioners can work with Indigenous communities to provide more equitable health, legal, and human services.

A student-made artistic and academic exhibition centered around indigenous cultures and languages of Mexico. Art installations, music, academically-researched information, interviews, presentations, community improvement projects, and much more in Prepa Tec Campus Tampico's Muestra de Culturas y Lenguas Indígenas 2019.

An immersive AV experience, Last Whispers Oratorio (45 min), is simultaneously a spatially-designed sound composition and film. Dedicated to the mass extinction of languages, the project was created by Lena Herzog, and features sound design by award-winning sound designers Mark Mangini and Marco Capalbo. Presented in an immersive sound environment, a chorus of spoken and sung extinct and endangered languages, punctuated […]

Panelists will share how they navigate the boundaries between Indigenous and non-Indigenous worlds in a multilingual panel discussion with several people from Kichwa and Waorani communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Two generations of Indigenous people will speak in a combination of English, Spanish, Kichwa, and Wao Terero about their perspectives of future, present, and past. Moderators will translate the webinar to English as much as possible. The webinar will include a discussion about the Andes and Amazon Field School (https://i-spartnerships.com/), where students and researchers are invited by Indigenous peoples to co-produce knowledge through exchanges of language, culture, and projects.

This Civic Conversation explores the socio-cultural and linguistic impact on language policies and practices in NI of global events generated by changes to EU policies, Brexit and the refugee crisis. It will celebrate 2019 as the year of Indigenous Languages and be chaired by Prof. Karen Corrigan, Newcastle University. Invited speakers will be experts in the fields of indigenous and community languages as well as practitioners who work with ethnolinguistic minorities in Northern Ireland and further afield.