Please check the next events at Rutgers related to indigenous languages and cultures:
- Native Americans in the Horror Genre, organized by RU_Indigenous. A discussion on Native Americans in the Horror Genre! We will discuss romanticization of Native traditions and using them as a fantastical point in horror movies as well as the insensitivity that comes with it. We will also be prompting horror movies that have good representation! Join us for a discussion on Native Americans in the Horror Genre! We will discuss romanticization of Native traditions and using them as a fantastical point in horror movies as well as the insensitivity that comes with it. We will also be prompting horror movies that have good representation!
2. Talk on Zoom: YOUTH, QUECHUA, AND NEOLIBERALISM IN CONTEMPORARY PERU with Dra. Virgina Zavala. Taking an ethnographic and critical approach as a starting point, I will address a mass movement of youth activists in Lima who teach Quechua for free in many districts of the capital city, with an extremely high demand from an ascending middle class mostly of Quechua-speaking migrant descent. I will make a counterpoint between the activists and the student population in terms of how they display a cluster of contradicting ideologies and subject positions in a context where learning Quechua is cohering with new signs to enregister new types of citizenship. In the framework of contemporary changes brought forward by globalization, these language policy processes are disturbing boundaries, problematizing categories, and raising new questions about the ‘right’ course of action on language politics in indigenous scenarios.
