Tentative Program / Programa Tentative
9th Quechua Alliance annual meeting / 9no. Encuentro de la Alianza Quechua
May/Mayo 3, 2025
Location: Hamilton Lugar School at Indiana University
(355 N Eagleson Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405)
Registration
8:00 AM – 8:55 AM | Atrium
Tribute to Pachamama and Opening Remarks / Apertura del evento y saludo a la Pachamama
9:00 AM – 9:40 AM | Atrium
María de Lourdes Túquerrez Maigua (Yachay) and Emma Bonham (Master of Ceremony)
Tribute to Pachamama in Ecuadorian Kichwa (20 minutes)
María de Lourdes Túquerrez Maigua
Miguel Ayllón (3 minutes)
Associate Vice President for International Affairs
John Ciorciari (3 minutes) TBC
Dean of the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies
Américo Mendoza-Mori and/or Carlos Molina-Vital (5 minutes)
Co-founders of the Quechua Alliance Meeting
Serafín M. Coronel-Molina (3 minutes)
Director of the Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Head Coordinator of the Global Indigenous Studies Network
Sonia Manriquez (3 minutes)
Associate Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Morning Sessions / Sesiones de la mañana
Collaborative Art Installation
Session 1: Cultura Quechua, Entretenimiento y Performance
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | GA1060 | Individual Presentations
La práctica de las costumbres – rituales de la cultura quechua
Julia Garcia
Miembro Comité Pro-Bolivia danza y folclore, Quechua Instructor
Achik Pukllay – Lotería en Kichwa
Sofia Silva
Amigas Press
Break
10:45 AM – 10:55 AM
Session 2: Derechos Lingüísticos y Revitalización del Quechua 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | GA 1060 | Individual Presentations
Language revitalization in Colombia’s Sibundoy Valley: Inga Kichwa and Kamëntšá
Rowan Glass and Margaret Carpenter
Indiana University
Mandatory Quechua learning? Why not?
Carlos Molina-Vital
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Lunch + Small Groups dynamics / Almuerzo + Dinámica grupal de discusión
12:00 PM | Lunch / Almuerzo
12:30 PM-1:30pm | Small Group dynamic: Imarayku? Why Quechua?
Afternoon Sessions
Session 4: Zoonimia, Televisión, Narrativas Femeninas y Cambio Climático 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM | GA 1060 | Individual Presentations
Zonación en el intermareal rocoso en la costa sur del Perú: documentación y zoonimia en quechua chanka
Carmen Cazorla Zen
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Ñuqanchik, the first Peruvian television newscast entirely produced in Quechua
Edith Benavente Solis
National Major University of San Marcos
Session 5: Marcadores Evidenciales, Promoción y Enseñanza del Quechua 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM | GA2067 | Individual Presentations
Evidential marker type, speaker gender, and distribution in Cusco Quechua discourse
Liliana Sánchez, Helen Koulidobrova, Jeff Imbaquingo, Daniel Pèrez
University of Illinois – Chicago
Promoción y enseñanza del quechua para hablantes de segunda generación: Estrategias digitales e interactivas
Mirian Espinoza Silvestre
Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán
Using dictionary materials to bring an understudied Quechuan language into the classroom
Adam Roth Singerman
Syracuse University
Session 6: Filosofía, Cosmología y Conocimiento Indígena/Andina 1:45 PM – 2:30 PM | GA2134 | Individual Presentations
El t’inkinakuy (interconexión mutua) entre el pacha (mundo) y el runa (ser humano andino) desde los presupuestos ontológicos del Manuscrito Quechua de Huarochirí Jesus Rivera Guzman
University of Pennsylvania
The five Quechua teachings for wellness: Reclaiming Indigenous knowledge for holistic well-being
Gustavo Kusi Monje
Southwestern College and Northern Virginia Community College
Break
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Workshops and Films / Talleres y film
Short Film & Music
3:00 PM – 4:00PM | GA1060
Decolonization, autonomy, and self-representation of traditional Andean communities
Suni Sonqo Vizcarra Wood
Kusi Kawsay Association
Simp’ashani: Canciones Trenzadas – Group Songwriting & Album Presentation
Anaís Azul
UC Riverside
Workshop 1
3:00 PM – 3:25 PM | GA2067
Interactive storytelling workshop – Cosechando nuestras historias, un taller interactivo
Lizette B. Suxo
The Bili App
Workshop 2
3:30 PM – 3:55 PM | GA2067
Andean technologies and climate change resilience
Kathleen Julca
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Documentary
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM | GA1060
Echoes of Quechua
Luz Merissa Vargas
University of Texas at Austin
Workshop 3
4:50 PM – 5:20 PM | GA1060
La Trilla de Salcabamba – Andean dance workshop
Betty Caloretti, Edward Bautista, Rudy Cuevas (presentan). Lucia Morales, Beatriz Morales, Diana Larrea, Edward Bautista, Rodolfo Ramirez, Rudy Cueva (danzantes)
Sumaj Collective
Workshop 4
4:50 PM – 5:20 PM | GA2067
Sapiyay / Root yourself / enraízate: An open discussion on Quechua and Kichwa youth, transnational identities, and community-building in the US diaspora
Amy Elizabeth Chalán Vacacela
Sapiyay Collective
Closing Remarks and Celebration / Cierre del evento y celebración
5:30 PM – 6:25 PM | Shreve Auditorium
Serafín M. Coronel-Molina (5 minutes)
Director of the Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Head Coordinator of the Global Indigenous Studies Network
Americo Mendoza Mori, Carlos Molina-Vital, Doris Loayza (5 minutes)
Quechua Alliance meeting
Quechua Lifetime Achievement Award (5 minutes)
Huaylarsh Moderno Performance by Sumaj Tusuy from Sumaj Collective (20 minutes)
Dinner, Musical Performance by Nayo Ulloa, Dancing and Send Off
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM | Atrium & Global Lounge
Nayo Ulloa, Latin American Music & Culture Specialist
Goshen College
Nayo Ulloa has been a dedicated performer of Peruvian and South American music since age 14. Based in the U.S. since 1981, he performed and toured actively throughout Europe and the Americas during the 1990’s.
In the early 2000s, Nayo focused on studying music, composing and teaching. In 2004 Released his solo quena CD, Loma Prieta. In 2007 he performed in the White House for Peruvian Independence Day In 2006 performed the World Premiere of the Machu Picchu Concerto for Quena and Symphonic Orchestra in Arequipa, Peru. In 2009 completed a Master’s degree in Music at San Jose State University, California.
Nayo’s original Quena soundtrack (2010) for the documentary Mi Chacra won a Special Mention at the Inkafest Film Festival in Peru. (www.michacrafilm.com). In 2023, Nayo released the documentary Quena Masterpiece about the Concierto Sinfónico Machu Picchu by great Peruvian composer Jaime Díaz Orihuela (1927-2020).
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