Event Program

7th Quechua Alliance Annual Meeting

Program – Programa

April 1st, 2023 / 1 de Abril, 2023

Sede/Location: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. (1730 Cambridge Street. Cambridge, MA)
In-Person event / Evento Presencial (no hybrid or virtual)

This is multilingual event / Este es un evento multilingüe.
No previous knowledge of Quechua is required. / No es requisito un conocimiento previo del Quechua.

8:30 AM Coffee and Check-in / Café y registro

9:30 AM Imaynalla! Opening ceremony. Appreciation to Pachamama (Mother Earth) / Ceremonia de bienvenida y agradecimiento a la Pachamama (Plenary)

10:20 AM  Quechua Showcase: Parallel Sessions / Sesiones paralelas #1

Sesión 1.A:  Panel interactivo / Interactive panel (Tsai Auditorium)

  • Tejido e historias de Quechua boliviano – Carlos Flores-Quispe (U. of Massachusetts at Amherst)
  • Quechua Interactive Learning Experience. Marisol Necochea, Andrea Leon Tenorio, Amelia Leon Tenorio, Caroline Bailey, Annie, Obernoster, Daniel Tovar Medina (Stanford Univ.)
  • Documenting spoken Quechua on Wikimedia with Lingualibre – Emma Vadillo Quesada (Inalco – Paris)

Moderadora/Moderator: Isabela Taipe (Wellesley College)

Session 1.B: Educational panel (Belfer Case Study Room)

  • Saraguro Runakunaka Wiñaypak Runakunami Kashunchik (We Will Always Be Saraguro): Reclaiming the Kichwa Language and Saraguro Identity in the Diaspora – Luis Gonzalez-Quizhpe (U. of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • From the Andes to the Rockies: Quechua in Colorado: – Leila Gomez, Doris Loayza, Camden Paillot, Kirsten Makhle, Elena Gil. (U. of Colorado-Boulder)
  • Reclaiming, remembering, and regenerating contemporary Kichwa Saraguro identity: Amy E. Chalán (Harvard Univ.)
  • Creating safe spaces for heritage Quechua speakers learners: Azucena Minaya Llantoy (U. of Connecticut)

Moderator: Eva Zapata (Fordham Univ.)

Sesión 1.C: Panel Educativo (Kim Chung Lam Room)

  • El español y el quechua como lenguas de colonialidad en el cine contemporáneo – Javier Muñoz-Díaz (St. Lawrence University)
  • Kuskalla Abya Yala: Una iniciativa para promover el quechua como lengua, cultura y conocimiento andino – Renzo Aroni (Columbia University), Yojana Miraya-Oscco (U. of Toronto)
  • Andean Carnival Tinkuy: espacios comunitarios en Chicago – Carlos Molina (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Moderador: Angie de la Cruz (Harvard Univ.)

11:20 AM  Quechua Showcase: Parallel Sessions / Sesiones paralelas #2

Session 2.A. Interactive: Andean Dance workshop with Kuyayky
(Doris and Ted Lee Room )

Sesión 2.B  Panel educativo / Educational Panel (Kim Chung Lam Room)

  • Killkashun: ¿Escribir o no en lenguas indígenas? Santiago Gualapuro (The Ohio State University)
  • Arlingtonbamba: Quechua, migración y resistencia cultural en EE.UU. – Julia García (Comité Pro-Bolivia, Washington DC)
  • Runasimi Outreach Collective: preserving and celebrating Quechua in NYC – Gonzalo Appiani, Micaél Pereira, Alía Warsco, and Darinka Arones (New York University)
  • Muestra visual de performance ‘Llontop’: Jessica Weinstein, Irma Alvarez-Ccoscco 

Moderadora: Agustín León-Saenz (Harvard Univ).

12:20 PM Recognition: Quechua Lifetime Achievement Award / Premiación Quechua a la Trayectoria

Recipient: Yarina, Kichwa music band and educators.

Yarina is dedicated not only to musical excellence but also to the preservation and sharing of the beauty, courage, and survival of the ancestral traditions and culture of the Indigenous peoples of Ecuador.  This groundbreaking Boston and Ecuador-based family of music educators has been promoting Kichwa language and Andean Culture in recent decades. Yarina’s beautiful and immensely appealing program contains music, stories and dances from the Andes.

Palabras de presentación por / Intro remarks by Amy E. Chalán (Kichwa Saraguro student at Harvard, and elected Ñusta SarUSA)

Roberto Cachimuel, Sumay Cachimuel, Rimay Cachimuel, Yuyari Cachimuel, Saúl Guaman en representación de Yarina / in representation of Yarina.

12:45pm: Lunch

2:00 PM Rimanakuy! Multilingual roundtable conversation on the relevance of Quechua / Mesa redonda multilingüe sobre la relevancia del Quechua (Plenary)
Elva Ambia (Founder of the Quechua Collective of New York) Renzo Aroni (Quechua scholar at Columbia University), Sofía Vega Zanca (Quechua Fulbright scholar), Irma Álvarez-Ccosco (award-winning Quechua poet), Valeria Andrango (Kichwa student at the Univ. of Pennsylvania)

Moderator/Moderadora: Frances Montevilla (undergraduate student, University of Virginia)

2:45 PM Plenary: Uyarinakuy! Quechua sounds (Plenary)

  • “Qariwarmi: Multi-lingual reinterpretations of Andean Music”, by Anaís Azul (California Institute of the Arts)
  • “Spoken Word on Andinidad: Kallpachay, warmicha! Una carta a mi familia, mujeres migrantes Quechua”, by Isabela Sanchez Taipe (Wellesley College)
  • “Maintaining Quechua oral tradition with Music”, by Andrés Jimenez (Inkarayku)

Moderator: Elio Torres (Harvard Univ.)

3:15pm PM: Imarayku? Why Quechua? ¿Por qué? (in groups)

Group discussion and creative writing session on ‘Why Quechua? Why celebrate Indigenous languages and cultures?’

3:45 PM: Break, Churros & Official Group Photo

4:00 PM Plenary of “Ima Rayku”, facilitated by Williams Andahua-Arellán (Syracuse Univ.) and Carlos Molina-Vital (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).

4:20 PM Announcement of the host city for the 2024 Quechua Alliance Annual Meeting.

4:30PM Andean Quechua Music Concert by Kuyayky / Concierto de Música Andina con Kuyaky

5:50 PM Closing remarks / Palabras de cierre.